VIII Air Support Command 30A
22 August 1943
Personal knowledge
Object Number - UPL 36256 - 2nd Lt Andrew G. Lindsay, Taken in Evreux, France, while recuperating with the French Underground. Burned as he was bailing out through the open...
Description
36 B-26s from 386BG are despatched to bomb the German airfield of Beaumont Le Roger, France. 35 are effective on the target. 1 B-26 Failed to Return - 2KIA 2POW 2EVD. The bomber gunners claim 3-0-0 of German fighters.
Mission Details
BEAUMONT-LE-ROGER
Description: AIRFIELD
Aircraft Type: B-26 Marauder
Mission Statistics
- Tonnage Dropped: 344 X 300GP
- People killed in action: 2
- People wounded in action: 1
- People evaded: 2
- Prisoners of war: 2
- Enemy aircrafts destroyed by bomber: 3
- Aircraft sent: 36
- Aircraft effective: 35
- Aircraft missing in action: 1
- Aircraft damaged: 8
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People
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 386th Bomb Group 554th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 35462827
- Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant
- Role/Job: Aerial Gunner
Aircraft
Revisions
Lee Cunningham 25-May-2015. Added bomber gunner claims to statistics per "The Mighty Eighth War Diary" Roger A. Freeman.
Lee Cunningham 25-May-2015. Added Mission Narrative 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'.