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13 June 1944

Mission Details

DREUX (Primary)

Description: AIRFIELD

Mission Statistics

  • Tonnage Dropped: 116 T

EVEREUX/FAUVILLE (Primary)

Description: AIRFIELD

Notes: Bad weather continues to hamper operations and large-scale bombing of any priority targets in Germany is curtailed. Also on this date the first on many V-1 Flying Bombs lands in SOUTH England.

Mission Statistics

  • Tonnage Dropped: 89 T

Description: AIRFIELD

Mission Statistics

  • Tonnage Dropped: 90T

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Aircraft

42-97139

  • Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
  • Nicknames: Flak Hopper
  • Unit: 457th Bomb Group 384th Bomb Group 546th Bomb Squadron

42-97150

  • Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
  • Nicknames: Silver Queen
  • Unit: 384th Bomb Group 544th Bomb Squadron 547th Bomb Squadron

42-97178

  • Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
  • Nicknames: Sweet Mama
  • Unit: 384th Bomb Group 96th Bomb Group 545th Bomb Squadron

42-97201

  • Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
  • Nicknames: Jamaica Mary
  • Unit: 547th Bomb Squadron 384th Bomb Group
A B-17 Flying Fortress (SO-K, serial number 42-97204) of the 547th Bomb Squadron, 384th Bomb Group. Handwritten caption on reverse: 'Bob (R.L.) Coleman, Conn.'

42-97204

  • Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
  • Nicknames: Skylark
  • Unit: 384th Bomb Group 547th Bomb Squadron

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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'.