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22 June 1944Mission Details
PAS-DE-CALAIS
Description: V-1 MISSILE SITES
PAS-DE-CALAIS
Description: V-1 MISSILE SITES
Notes: Because of the attack on the B-17s at Poltava, USSR during the night of 21/22 June 1944, the B-17s at Mirgorod and the P-51s at Piryatin are moved further EAST in the USSR. They are to be returned to Mirgorod and Piryatin to be despatched to bases in Italy as soon as the weather permits. The move is fortunate as German bombers strike both Pirvatin and Mirgorod during the night of 22/23 June 1944. The Pas-de-Calais raids (12 sites are targeted) are escorted by 165 P-47s and 97 P-51s. Some of the escort fighters also strafe coastal defenses.
Mission Statistics
- Tonnage Dropped: 594T
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People
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 384th Bomb Group 546th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 34507515
- Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant
- Role/Job: Flexible Gunner/ Togglier
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 390th Bomb Group 571st Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 19151909
- Highest Rank: Sergeant
- Role/Job: Waist Gunner
Aircraft
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Nicknames: Old Glory
- Unit: 303rd Bomb Group 360th Bomb Squadron
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Nicknames: Sequatchiee
- Unit: 390th Bomb Group 570th Bomb Squadron
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Nicknames: HotNuts
- Unit: Base Air Depot 1 384th Bomb Group 544th Bomb Squadron
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Nicknames: Ill Get By
- Unit: 390th Bomb Group 568th Bomb Squadron
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Nicknames: Sweet Mama
- Unit: 384th Bomb Group 96th Bomb Group 545th Bomb Squadron
Revisions
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'.