VIII Fighter Command FO - 45 FIGHTER SWEEP

13 June 1943

Description

78FG despatches 44 P-47s on a Rodeo in the Ypres-St.Pol area. A "Rodeo" is the RAF code for a fighter sweep. Enemy fighters are engaged and 2 P-47s are MIA but 78FG claims 2-0-2 of the enemy fighters.

Mission Details

YPRES / SAINT-POL

Description: FIGHTER RODEO

Aircraft Type: P-47 Thunderbolt

Notes: Fighter rodeo in the Ypres/St. Pol area. We get 2, Germans get 2.

Mission Statistics

  • Aircraft sent: 44

Revisions

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ContributorLee8thbuff
Changes
Sources

Lee Cunningham 6-Jan-2015. Description based on "The Mighty Eighth War Diary" Roger A. Freeman.

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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'.