8th Air Force Field Order 326

4 May 1944

Mission Details

BERLIN

Description: FIGHTER ESCORT

Notes: A mix of 516 fighters from 8th Air Force and 9th Air Force provide escort: 50 P-38s, 179 P-47 and 287 P-51s. IX Fighter Command contributes 95 P-51s to the escort. Credits are bundled. All losses from 8th Air Force.

Mission Statistics

  • Tonnage Dropped: NA

Revisions

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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'.