8th Air Force Field Order 319 and 65th Fighter Wing 97

28 April 1944

Mission Details

PARIS

Description: AIRFIELD

Notes: 16 of 24 P-47s from 8th Air Force 56 Fighter Group attack an unidentified airfield near Paris after they found that their primary was obscured by clouds. 8 provide escort.

Mission Statistics

  • Tonnage Dropped: 24 T HE

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Sources

Lee Cunningham, 8th Air Force missions research database / Stan Bishop's 'Losses of the US 8th and 9th Air Forces', the Combat Chronology of the US Army Air Forces and the work of Roger Freeman including the 'Mighty Eighth War Diary'.