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17 June 1944
Tours A/F - France
17 June 1944 466th Bomb Group collection
466th BG Historian
Object Number - UPL 7272 - Strike Photo Tours A/F - France 17 June 1944
Mission Details
ANGERS (Primary)
Description: AIRFIELD
Notes: 2nd Bomb Division was made up of 44th Bomb Group, 93 Bomb Group, 389th Bomb Group, 392nd Bomb Group, 445th Bomb Group, 446th Bomb Group, 448th Bomb Group, 458th Bomb Group, 466th Bomb Group, 467th Bomb Group, 489th Bomb Group, 491st Bomb Group, 492nd Bomb Group. 3rd Bomb Division was made up of B-24 GROUPS is 34th Bomb Group, 388th Bomb Group, 493rd Bomb Group, 486th Bomb Group, 487th Bomb Group, 489th Bomb Group, 490th Bomb Group
Mission Statistics
- Tonnage Dropped: 184.90
Description: AIRFIELD
Mission Statistics
- Tonnage Dropped: 98.2 T
LAVAL (Primary)
Description: AIRFIELD
Mission Statistics
- Tonnage Dropped: 223T
Description: TRANSPORTATION TARGET
Mission Statistics
- Tonnage Dropped: 2 T
Description: AIRFIELD
Mission Statistics
- Tonnage Dropped: 60.8 T
Tours, France
Description: AIRFIELD
Aircraft Type: B-24 Liberator
Mission Statistics
- Tonnage Dropped: 134.70
- Aircraft effective: 55
- Aircraft missing in action: 1
Connections
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People
Aircraft
- Aircraft Type: B-24 Liberator
- Nicknames: Herk's Jerks, Sweet and Lowdown
- Unit: 389th Bomb Group 492nd Bomb Group 567th Bomb Squadron 857th Bomb Squadron 858th Bomb Squadron 856th Bomb Squadron
- Aircraft Type: B-24 Liberator
- Nicknames: I'll Be Around
- Unit: 492nd Bomb Group 859th Bomb Squadron
- Aircraft Type: B-24 Liberator
- Nicknames: Daisy Mae
- Unit: 492nd Bomb Group 858th Bomb Squadron 856th Bomb Squadron
- Aircraft Type: B-24 Liberator
- Nicknames: Sierra Blanca
- Unit: 44th Bomb Group 506th Bomb Squadron 492nd Bomb Group 858th Bomb Squadron 857th Bomb Squadron
- Aircraft Type: B-24 Liberator
- Unit: 492nd Bomb Group 859th Bomb Squadron
Revisions
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'.