8th Air Force Field Order 372
6 June 1944Description
D-Day. Start of Operation Overlord.
Mission Details
Normandy
Description: FIGHTER TACTICAL MISSIONS
Notes: 182 P-47s and 218 P-51s attack ground targets and 49 P-47s and 17 P-51s provide cover.
Mission Statistics
- Aircraft sent: 466
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People

- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 495th Fighter Training Group 78th Fighter Group 552nd Fighter Training Squadron 84th Fighter Squadron
- Service Numbers: O-686799
- Highest Rank: First Lieutenant
- Role/Job: Fighter Pilot
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 78th Fighter Group 82nd Fighter Squadron
- Service Numbers: 13067129 / O-733581
- Highest Rank: First Lieutenant
- Role/Job: Fighter Pilot
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 78th Fighter Group 82nd Fighter Squadron 84th Fighter Squadron
- Service Numbers: 13027333 / O-816031
- Highest Rank: Lieutenant Colonel
- Role/Job: Fighter Pilot

- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 495th Fighter Training Group 78th Fighter Group 84th Fighter Squadron
- Service Numbers: 31259062 / O-793680
- Highest Rank: Captain
- Role/Job: Fighter pilot

- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 78th Fighter Group 84th Fighter Squadron
- Service Numbers: 15327106 / O-687227
- Highest Rank: First Lieutenant
- Role/Job: Fighter pilot
Aircraft

- Aircraft Type: P-47 Thunderbolt
- Unit: 78th Fighter Group 84th Fighter Squadron

- Aircraft Type: P-47 Thunderbolt
- Unit: 367th Fighter Group 78th Fighter Group 393rd Fighter Squadron 83rd Fighter Squadron

- Aircraft Type: P-47 Thunderbolt
- Nicknames: Okie II Jeanie
- Unit: 78th Fighter Group 84th Fighter Squadron
- Aircraft Type: P-47 Thunderbolt
- Unit: 78th Fighter Group 83rd Fighter Squadron
- Aircraft Type: P-47 Thunderbolt
- Unit: 78th Fighter Group 83rd Fighter Squadron
Revisions
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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'.