8th Air Force 453
5 July 1944Mission Details
Description: FIGHTER ESCORT
Notes: 4th Fighter Group and 352nd Fighter Group contingents on Soviet Union - Italy shuttle returned with the Beziers bombers. Claims include 1-0-0 on the ground.
Mission Statistics
- Tonnage Dropped: NA
Description: FIGHTER ESCORT
Notes: Specific units not correlated in source data. Claims include 1-0-0 on the ground.
Mission Statistics
- Tonnage Dropped: NA
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People
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 453rd Bomb Group 735th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 37357237
- Highest Rank: Corporal
- Role/Job: Nose Gunner
Aircraft
- Aircraft Type: B-24 Liberator
- Unit: 453rd Bomb Group 735th Bomb 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'.