VIII Fighter Command
9 August 1942Description
2 Spitfire Mk V from 31st Fighter Group are despatched on a defensive fighter patrol.
11 Spitfire Mk V from 31st Fighter Group are despatched to fly top cover on a feint "Rodeo" to Dieppe, France, a fighter sweep over enemy territory.
Mission Details
DIEPPE
Description: DEFENSIVE PATROL
Aircraft Type: Spitfire
Notes: A defensive patrol. 11 of the aircraft fly as top cover on a feint "Rodeo" to Dieppe. No losses or casualties, but patrol claims one enemy aircraft damaged.
- Unit Hierarchy: Group
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force Twelfth Air Force Fifteenth Air Force
- Type Category: Fighter
Mission Statistics
- Enemy aircraft damaged by fighter: 1
- Aircraft sent: 13
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People
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 31st Fighter Group 350th Fighter Group 308th Fighter Squadron
- Service Numbers: O-401549
- Highest Rank: Lieutenant Colonel
- Role/Job: Fighter Pilot/Squadron Commander
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'.