343

7 May 1944

Mission Details

Description: 1,600,000 LEAFLETS DROPPED around 16 TOWNS IN FRANCE

Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress

Notes: 3 of 4 B-17s drop 1.6 million leaflets on 16 towns in Central France without loss.

Mission Statistics

  • Tonnage Dropped: NA
  • Aircraft sent: 4
  • Aircraft effective: 3

Revisions

Date
ContributorRainer
Changes
Sources

http://permanent.access.gpo.gov/lps51153/airforcehistory/usaaf/chron/in…

Date
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'.