509

1 August 1944

Mission Details

Description: UNKNOWN NUMBER OF LEAFLETS DROPPED

Notes: XIX Tactical Air Command is activated under Gen. Otto P. Weyland to provide close fighter-bomber air support to Patton's 3rd Army. Weyland and Patton are close friends and their relationship will provide 3rd Army with the best coordinated tactical air support of the war.

Unofficial emblem, 305th Bomb Group.
  • Unit Hierarchy: Group
  • Air Force: Eighth Air Force
  • Type Category: Bombardment

Mission Statistics

  • Tonnage Dropped: NA

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People

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 466th Bomb Group 786th Bomb Squadron
  • Highest Rank: First Lieutenant
  • Role/Job: Navigator

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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'.