8th Air Force
19 September 1944Mission Details
Description: PHOTOGRAPHIC RECONNAISSANCE MISSION
- Unit Hierarchy: Group
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Reconnaissance
Mission Statistics
- Tonnage Dropped: NA
TRUCKIN OPERATION
Description: TRUCKIN' MISSION
Notes: Unknown number of 2nd Bomb Squadron B-24s fly fuel to France
- Unit Hierarchy: Division
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Combat organisation
Mission Statistics
- Tonnage Dropped: NA
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People
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 447th Bomb Group 709th Bomb Squadron
- Highest Rank: First Lieutenant
- Role/Job: Pilot
Aircraft
- Aircraft Type: Spitfire
- Nicknames: Lease Fleece
- Unit: 7th Photographic Reconnaissance Group 14th Photographic Reconnaissance Squadron
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'.