8th Air Force 177 LEAFLET OPERATION
6 January 1944Description
5 B-17 from 305BG/422BS are despatched on a night operations to drop 984,000 leaflets on the French cities of Amiens, Lille, Valensiennes, Cambrai, and Reims.
Mission Details
AMIENS / RHEIMS
Description: 984,000 LEAFLETS DROPPED
Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
Notes: Night leaflet drop by 305th Bomb Group/422nd Bomb Squadron.
- Unit Hierarchy: Group
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Bombardment
Mission Statistics
- Tonnage Dropped: Not Applicable
- Aircraft sent: 5
- Aircraft effective: 5
Revisions
Lee Cunningham 18-Feb-2016. Removed CARPETBAGGER operations from Note. Carpetbagger operation moved to 5-Jan-44 per 801BG records.
Lee Cunningham 20-Dec-2015. Corrected mission title and added Mission Description based on "The Mighty Eighth War Diary", Roger A. Freeman.
Lee Cunningham 20-Dec-2015 . Added Mission Description 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'.