VIII Fighter Command PATROL & RAF ESCORT
27 February 1943Description
4th Fighter Group conducts two operations on this date: 16 Spitifires are despatched over the English Channel on shipping patrols; and 24 Spitfires are despatched to provide escort for an RAF mission of Venturas attacking the port facilities at Dunkirk, France.
Mission Details
English Channel
Description: FIGHTER PATROL
Aircraft Type: Spitfire
Notes: Shipping partols.
- Unit Hierarchy: Group
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Fighter
Mission Statistics
- Aircraft sent: 16
Dunkirk, France
Description: Escort of RAF Venturas attacking the port facilities at Dunkirk, France.
Aircraft Type: Spitfire
- Unit Hierarchy: Group
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Fighter
Mission Statistics
- Aircraft sent: 24
Revisions
Lee Cunningham 24-Dec-2014. Descritpions based on "The Mighty Eighth War Diary" Roger A. Freeman.
Lee Cunningham 24-Dec-2014. Descritpions based on "The Mighty Eighth War Diary" Roger A. Freeman.
Lee Cunningham 24-Dec-2014. Descritpions based on "The Mighty Eighth War Diary" Roger A. Freeman.
Lee Cunningham 24-Dec-2014. Descritpions based on "The Mighty Eighth War Diary" Roger A. Freeman.
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'.