VIII Air Support Command ANTI-SUB PATROL
18 August 1943Description
This operation was an anti-submarine patrol over the North Sea off the Holland/Belgium coast by a B-24 despatched by 479th Anti-Submarine Group/19th Anti-Submarine Squadron. The aircraft was shot down by enemy aircraft and ditched into the North Sea. 4KIA 6RTD (rescued by ASR). Those rescued spent 5 days adrift in a raft. This operation is not recorded in Roger Freeman's "Mighty Eighth War Diary" but the loss is documentd on Missing Air Crew Report (MACR) 363 and recorded in "Losses of the 8th & 9th Air Forces", Stan Bishop & John A. Hey, MBE.
Mission Details
Description: ANTI-SUB PATROL
Aircraft Type: B-24 Liberator
Mission Statistics
- Tonnage Dropped: 19.00
- People killed in action: 4
- People returned to duty: 6
- Aircraft sent: 1
- Aircraft effective: 1
- Aircraft missing in action: 1
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Aircraft
- Aircraft Type: B-24 Liberator
- Unit: 479th Anti-Submarine Group
Revisions
Lee Cunningham 24-May-2015. Added Mission Narrative based on "Losses of the 8th & 9th Air Forces", Stan Bishop & John A. Hey, MBE and MACR 363.
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'.