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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People

Aircraft

43-37898

  • Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
  • Nicknames: Belle In The Keyhole
  • Unit: 95th Bomb Group 412th Bomb Squadron

43-37904

  • Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
  • Nicknames: Princess Pat, Hannah’s Children
  • Unit: 390th Bomb Group 569th Bomb Squadron

44-6085

  • Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
  • Nicknames: Lili of the Lamplight
  • Unit: 95th Bomb Group 334th Bomb Squadron 335th 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'.