529

7 August 1944

Mission Details

Description: UNKNOWN NUMBER OF LEAFLETS DROPPED

Mission Statistics

  • Tonnage Dropped: NA

PARIS

Description: MARSHALLING YARDS and RAILROADS

Notes: Fighter-bomber mission by a mix of 271 P-47s and P-51s. Mix not given in available data. Claims are all on the ground.

Mission Statistics

  • Tonnage Dropped: 52.5 T

TRZEBINA (Primary)

Description: OIL REFINERY

Notes: OPERATION FRANTIC bombers and fighters return to bases in the USSR after the mission.

Mission Statistics

  • Tonnage Dropped: 133.8 T

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Aircraft

42-31854

  • Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
  • Nicknames: Baby Buggy
  • Unit: 390th Bomb Group 570th Bomb Squadron

42-31867

  • Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
  • Nicknames: Go Getter
  • Unit: 95th Bomb Group 334th Bomb Squadron 335th Bomb Squadron

42-31876

  • Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
  • Nicknames: Fire Ball Red
  • Unit: 95th Bomb Group 336th Bomb Squadron 412th Bomb Squadron

42-31887

  • Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
  • Nicknames: Big Casino
  • Unit: 95th Bomb Group 335th Bomb Squadron 336th Bomb Squadron 412th Bomb Squadron
A B-17G Flying Fortress (ET-B, serial number 42-31989) of the 336th Bomb Squadron, 95th Bomb Group that has crash-landed 1 April 1944. Official caption on image: "569(44). 4-1-44. Hon. Crash Landing Damage. B-17G, 42-31989. AM-FS..."

42-31989

  • Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
  • Nicknames: Spam Can : Black Magic : Shady Lady
  • Unit: 381st Bomb Group 95th Bomb Group 334th Bomb Squadron 336th Bomb Squadron 535th 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'.