8th Air Force Field Order 372
6 June 1944Description
D-Day. Start of Operation Overlord.
Mission Details
Normandy
Description: FIGHTER TACTICAL MISSIONS
Notes: 182 P-47s and 218 P-51s attack ground targets and 49 P-47s and 17 P-51s provide cover.
Mission Statistics
- Aircraft sent: 466
Connections
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People
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 496th Fighter Training Group 555th Fighter Training Squadron 5th Emergency Rescue Squadron 82nd Fighter Squadron Headquarters (496th Fighter Training Group)
- Service Numbers: O-817923
- Highest Rank: First Lieutenant
- Role/Job: Pilot
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 78th Fighter Group Headquarters & Headquarters Squadron (78th Fighter Group) Headquarters (66th Fighter Wing)
- Service Numbers: O-22327
- Highest Rank: Brigadier General
- Role/Job: Commanding Officer
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 82nd Fighter Squadron
- Service Numbers: O-421077
- Highest Rank: Captain
- Role/Job: Pilot
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 78th Fighter Group 84th Fighter Squadron
- Service Numbers: O-806668
- Highest Rank: Second Lieutenant
- Role/Job: Fighter Pilot
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 55th Fighter Group 96th Bomb Group Headquarters (357th Fighter Group) Headquarters (55th Fighter Group)
- Highest Rank: Brigadier General
- Role/Job: Fighter Pilot
Aircraft
- Aircraft Type: P-47 Thunderbolt
- Nicknames: Lady Katherine
- Unit: 78th Fighter Group 82nd Fighter Squadron
- Aircraft Type: P-47 Thunderbolt
- Unit: 78th Fighter Group 82nd Fighter Squadron
- Aircraft Type: P-47 Thunderbolt
- Unit: 78th Fighter Group 82nd Fighter Squadron 84th Fighter Squadron
- Aircraft Type: P-47 Thunderbolt
- Nicknames: Joker
- Unit: 78th Fighter Group 84th Fighter Squadron
- Aircraft Type: P-47 Thunderbolt
- Nicknames: Lil Eva
- Unit: 78th Fighter Group 83rd Fighter Squadron
Revisions
ContributorAAM
Changes
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'.