8th Air Force 177 LEAFLET OPERATION

6 January 1944

Description

5 B-17 from 305BG/422BS are despatched on a night operations to drop 984,000 leaflets on the French cities of Amiens, Lille, Valensiennes, Cambrai, and Reims.

Mission Details

AMIENS / RHEIMS

Description: 984,000 LEAFLETS DROPPED

Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress

Notes: Night leaflet drop by 305th Bomb Group/422nd Bomb Squadron.

Unofficial emblem, 305th Bomb Group.

305th Bomb Group

  • Unit Hierarchy: Group
  • Air Force: Eighth Air Force
  • Type Category: Bombardment

Mission Statistics

  • Tonnage Dropped: Not Applicable
  • Aircraft sent: 5
  • Aircraft effective: 5

Revisions

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ContributorLee8thbuff
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Lee Cunningham 18-Feb-2016. Removed CARPETBAGGER operations from Note. Carpetbagger operation moved to 5-Jan-44 per 801BG records.

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ContributorLee8thbuff
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Lee Cunningham 20-Dec-2015. Corrected mission title and added Mission Description based on "The Mighty Eighth War Diary", Roger A. Freeman.

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ContributorLee8thbuff
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Lee Cunningham 20-Dec-2015 . Added Mission Description based on "The Mighty Eighth War Diary", Roger A. Freeman.

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ContributorAAM
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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'.