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6 July 1944

Mission Details

Description: V-1 MISSILE SITES

Notes: 6 V-weapon sites, 3 railroad bridges, a highway bridge and an airfield are targets.

Mission Statistics

  • Tonnage Dropped: 654.5 T

Description: BRIDGE

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Aircraft

42-97237

  • Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
  • Nicknames: Royal Flush III
  • Unit: 547th Bomb Squadron 384th Bomb Group

42-97320

  • Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
  • Nicknames: Hot Rock
  • Unit: 384th Bomb Group 544th Bomb Squadron
Ten men in Air Force uniform posed in front of a military airplane. Five men standing to the rear, five men kneeling in front. The men are wearing combat flying gear. Large canvas bags are laying in front of kneeling men

42-97367

  • Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
  • Nicknames: Umbragio
  • Unit: 384th Bomb Group 547th Bomb Squadron

42-97400

  • Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
  • Nicknames: Fuddy Duddy
  • Unit: 447th Bomb Group 708th Bomb Squadron

42-97856

  • Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
  • Unit: 95th Bomb Group 335th Bomb Squadron 336th Bomb Squadron

Revisions

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Sources

http://valortovictory.tripod.com/b24s/42-51190.htm

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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'.