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

42-31992

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

42-32066

  • Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
  • Nicknames: Silver Slipper
  • Unit: 95th Bomb Group 412th Bomb Squadron

42-37788

  • Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
  • Nicknames: Hell's Messenger
  • Unit: 2nd Strategic Air Depot 364th Fighter Group 544th Bomb Squadron 384th Bomb Group 547th Bomb Squadron
A B-17 Flying Fortress (serial number 42-37882) of the 95th Bomb Group landing at Colorado in October 1943. Handwritten caption on reverse: 'B-17G-15-DL Denver, Colorada, October 1943.'

42-37882

  • Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
  • Nicknames: Hard Time : A-Good-Bett : Blues in the Reich
  • Unit: 95th Bomb Group 412th Bomb Squadron

42-97093

  • Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
  • Nicknames: Ill Get By
  • Unit: 390th Bomb Group 568th 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'.