8th Air Force Field Order 372

6 June 1944

Description

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

Connections

See how this entry relates to other items in the archive by exploring the connections below.

People

Luther Joe Abel

  • 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

Robert L Baker

  • 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

Harold F Beck

  • 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
From left to right: Lieutenant George T. Hartman and Lieutenant Robert E. Belliveau of the 84th Fighter Squadron, 78th Fighter Group, read 'Yank: the Army Weekly' at Duxford air base. Passed for publication 13 August 1943. Printed caption on reverse: 'At U.S. Thunderbolts Station. This series of pictures is a graphic story of the everyday activities of a Thunderbolt P 47 group which includes some of the finest fighter pilots - record holders of the U.S. Army Air Force in Britain. Keystone Picture shows: L

Robert Earl Belliveau

  • 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

Herbert Lewis Boyle

  • 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

2nd Lt. L. L. Moseley, 78th FG, 84th FS

42-25529

  • Aircraft Type: P-47 Thunderbolt
  • Unit: 78th Fighter Group 84th Fighter Squadron
P-47 Thunderbolt aircraft of the 78th Fighter Group at Duxford. Handwritten on slide casing:"3-12"

42-25552

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

42-25698

  • Aircraft Type: P-47 Thunderbolt
  • Nicknames: Okie II Jeanie
  • Unit: 78th Fighter Group 84th Fighter Squadron

42-25719

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

42-25837

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

Revisions

Date
ContributorAAM
ChangesAAM ingest
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'.