8th Air Force 175 LEAFLET DROP

4 January 1944

Description

305BG/422BS despatches 4 B-17s to drop 800,000 leaflets on the French cities of Orleans, Lorient, Rouen and Tours in a night operation.

Mission Details

LORIENT / ORLEANS / ROUEN / Tours, France

Description: 800,000 LEAFLETS DROPPED

Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress

Unofficial emblem, 305th Bomb Group.
  • Unit Hierarchy: Group
  • Air Force: Eighth Air Force
  • Type Category: Bombardment

Mission Statistics

  • Aircraft sent: 4
  • Aircraft effective: 4

Revisions

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Lee Cunningham 9-Feb-2015. Added Squadron connection. Source same as previous.

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Lee Cunningham 9-Feb-2015. Added Tours map location to leaflet drop per 'The Mighty Eighth War Diary" Roger A. Freeman.

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Lee Cunningham 9-Feb-2015. Added Mission Description based on "The Mighty Eighth War Diary" Roger A. Freeman.

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Lee Cunningham 9-Feb-2015. Corrected Title to 8th Air Force 175 Leaflet drop per "The Mighty Eighth War Diary" Roger A. Freeman.

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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'.