8th Air Force Field Order 352
28 May 1944Mission Details
Description: FIGHTER ESCORT
Notes: A mix of 697 fighters from 8th Air Force provide escort: 182 P-38s, 208 P-47s and 307 P-51s. In addition IX Fighter Command contributes a mix of 527 fighters (mix not in source data). IX Fighter Command claims 33-0-1 in the air and 5-0-7 on the ground (not included in table), with a loss of 5 fighters (not in table). 8th Air Force claims include 0-0-1 on the ground.
Mission Statistics
- Tonnage Dropped: NA
Connections
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People
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 354th Fighter Group 353rd Fighter Squadron
- Service Numbers: 13062822 / O-807601
- Highest Rank: First Lieutenant
- Role/Job: Fighter pilot
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 82nd Fighter Squadron
- Service Numbers: O-666592
- Highest Rank: First Lieutenant
- Role/Job: Pilot
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 78th Fighter Group 83rd Fighter Squadron
- Service Numbers: O-811880
- Highest Rank: First Lieutenant
- Role/Job: Pilot
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 363rd Fighter Group 382nd Fighter Squadron
- Service Numbers: 20420786 / O-1294757
- Highest Rank: Second Lieutenant
- Role/Job: Fighter Pilot
Aircraft
Revisions
Mission 376: Battle over the Reich, May 28, 1944 By Ivo De Jong
http://www.aviationarchaeology.com/src/dbmsn.asp?SN=42-106635&Submit6=Go
Mission 376: Battle over the Reich, May 28, 1944 By Ivo De Jong
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Mission 376: Battle over the Reich, May 28, 1944 By Ivo De Jong
https://www.fold3.com/image/28626671
https://www.fold3.com/image/28630407
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'.