14 January 1943
Not yet known
4th Fighter Group despatches 8 Spitfires on 3 Rhubarbs to targets in Belgium.
FIGHTER RHUBARB
Spitfire
Fighters carried out 3 Rhubarbs. Enemy Fw 190s were engaged with off Ostend. One Spitfire made a forced landing at Bradwell Bay A/F because of flak damage. 334th Fighter Squadron completes transition from Spitfire Mark Vs to P-47Cs. The first P-47 mission for 4th Fighter Group will be 10-Mar-43.
Group
Some of the pilots of the 4th Fighter Group had seen many hours of combat by the time they joined the 4th Fighter Group as they had volunteered with the Royal Canadian Air Force and the Royal Air Force. The three 'Eagle Squadrons' of RAF Fighter...
| Number of aircraft Sent | 8 |
| Number of aircraft Damaged | 2 |
| Enemy aircraft claimed as Destroyed by Fighter Command | 2 |
| Date | Contributor | Update |
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| 15 February 2015 19:55:17 | Lee8thbuff | Changes to event |
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Lee Cunningham 15-Feb-2015. Added fighter claims on enemy aircraft to statistics per "The Mighty Eighth War Diary" Roger A. Freeman. |
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| Date | Contributor | Update |
| 08 December 2014 23:13:25 | Lee8thbuff | Changes to name and description |
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Lee Cunningham 8-Dec-2014. Description based on 'The Mighty Eighth War Diary" Roger A. Freeman. |
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| Date | Contributor | Update |
| 27 September 2014 18:43:18 | 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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