VIII Fighter Command SHIPPING PATROL
14 February 1943Description
4th Fighter Group despatches 18 Spitfires on patrols for enemy shipping in the English Channel.
Mission Details
Description: SHIPPING PATROL
Aircraft Type: Spitfire
Notes: Shipping patrol.
- Unit Hierarchy: Group
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Fighter
Mission Statistics
- Aircraft sent: 30
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People
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 303rd Bomb Group 358th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 34256736
- Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant
- Role/Job: waist gunner
Revisions
ContributorLee8thbuff
Changes
Sources
Lee Cunningham 23-Dec-2014. Description based on "The Mighty Eighth War Diary" Roger A. Freeman
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'.