31 July 1943
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1 F-5 from 7th Photographic Reconnaissance Group is despatched on a photographic reconnaissance sortie over France.
PHOTOGRAPHIC RECONNAISSANCE MISSION
F-5 Lightning
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Group
Based for the majority of their service at Mount Farm, Oxfordshire, the 7th Photographic Group (Reconnaissance) took over three million intelligence photos during the course of 4,251 sorties over occupied Europe. The Group was awarded a Distinguished...
| Number of aircraft Sent | 1 |
| Number of aircraft Effective | 1 |
| Date | Contributor | Update |
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| 12 May 2015 20:48:16 | Lee8thbuff | Changes to event |
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Lee Cunningham 12-May-2015. Corrected mission statistics per "The Mighty Eighth War Diary", Roger A. Freeman. |
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| Date | Contributor | Update |
| 12 May 2015 20:46:26 | Lee8thbuff | Changes to name and description |
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Lee Cunningham 12-May-2015. Edited title and added Mission Narrative based on "The Mighty Eighth War Diary", Roger A. Freeman. |
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| Date | Contributor | Update |
| 12 May 2015 20:43:54 | Lee8thbuff | Changes to event |
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Lee Cunningham 12-May-2015. Added Mission Narrative based on "The Mighty Eighth War Diray", Roger A. Freeman. |
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| Date | Contributor | Update |
| 27 September 2014 18:43:15 | AAM | AAM ingest |
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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'. |
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