8th Air Force Field Order 387
13 June 1944
Added photo, cropped from UPL 20492
Object Number - UPL 20493 - Lt Russell G. Quinn - 1944
Mission Details
Description: TRANSPORTATION TARGET
Notes: 33 attack.
CHINON
Description: TRANSPORTATION TARGET
Notes: 31 attack
LA PORT BOULET
Description: TRANSPORTATION TARGET
Notes: 199 P-47s are despatched, 90 hit this target. Specific groups not identified in source data.
Mission Statistics
- Tonnage Dropped: NA
LAPOISSONNIERE MONTJEAN
Description: FIGHTER- BOMBER MISSIONS
Notes: 97 P-38s are despatched on fighter-bomber missions (58 bomb) and 17 hit this target. 2 P-38s are lost and pilots are MIA. T are escorted by 35 P-51s
Mission Statistics
- Tonnage Dropped: NA
MOUNTLOUIS
Description: TRANSPORTATION TARGET
Notes: 24 attack
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People
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 20th Fighter Group 77th Fighter Squadron
- Service Numbers: 19077234 and O-740557
- Highest Rank: First Lieutenant
- Role/Job: Fighter Pilot
Aircraft
- Aircraft Type: P-38 Lightning
- Unit: 20th Fighter Group 77th Fighter Squadron
Revisions
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'.