8th Air Force
12 September 1944Mission Details
Leipzig, Germany
Description: PHOTOGRAPHIC RECONNAISSANCE MISSION
Notes: 4 P-51s escort 2 P-38th F5s that went to the Leipzig area.
- Unit Hierarchy: Group
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Reconnaissance
Mission Statistics
- Tonnage Dropped: NA
Description: CARPETBAGGER MISSION
Notes: Flight included unknown number of C-47s.
- Unit Hierarchy: Group
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Bombardment
Mission Statistics
- Tonnage Dropped: NA
France
Description: TRUCKIN' MISSION
Notes: Unknown tonnage of war supplies to French airfields.
Mission Statistics
- Tonnage Dropped: NA
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People
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 447th Bomb Group 709th Bomb Squadron
- Highest Rank: First Lieutenant
- Role/Job: Pilot
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 93rd Bomb Group 330th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: O-712976
- Highest Rank: First Lieutenant
- Role/Job: Navigator
Aircraft
- Aircraft Type: Spitfire
- Unit: 7th Photographic Reconnaissance Group 14th Photographic Reconnaissance Squadron
Revisions
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'.