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22 June 1944

Mission 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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Aircraft

42-97824

  • Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
  • Unit: 401st Bomb Group 384th Bomb Group 544th Bomb Squadron

44-6105

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

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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'.