8th Air Force
8 August 1944Mission Details
Description: FIGHTER ESCORT
- Unit Hierarchy: Group
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Fighter
Mission Statistics
- Tonnage Dropped: NA
Description: PHOTOGRAPHIC RECONNAISSANCE MISSION
Notes: DH98 H2X scope photo sorties.
Mission Statistics
- Tonnage Dropped: NA
Description: PHOTOGRAPHIC RECONNAISSANCE MISSION
- Unit Hierarchy: Group
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Reconnaissance
Mission Statistics
- Tonnage Dropped: NA
Description: SCOUTING MISSION
Notes: DH98
Mission Statistics
- Tonnage Dropped: NA
Description: WEATHER RECONNAISSANCE MISSION
Notes: DH98
Mission Statistics
- Tonnage Dropped: NA
ATLANTIC OCEAN
Description: WEATHER RECONNAISSANCE MISSION
Mission Statistics
- Tonnage Dropped: NA
BIZAU
Description: AIRFIELD
Notes: Shuttle mission from the USSR-to target-to Italy.
- Unit Hierarchy: Group
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Bombardment
- Unit Hierarchy: Division
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Combat organisation
- Unit Hierarchy: Group
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Bombardment
Mission Statistics
- Tonnage Dropped: 65.7 T
Description: AIRFIELD
Mission Statistics
- Tonnage Dropped: 70 T
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People
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 95th Bomb Group 334th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: O-693852
- Highest Rank: First Lieutenant
- Role/Job: Pilot
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'.