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27 February 1943
Not yet known
4th Fighter Group conducts two operations on this date: 16 Spitifires are despatched over the English Channel on shipping patrols; and 24 Spitfires are despatched to provide escort for an RAF mission of Venturas attacking the port facilities at Dunkirk, France.
FIGHTER PATROL
Spitfire
Shipping partols.
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 | 16 |
Escort of RAF Venturas attacking the port facilities at Dunkirk, France.
Spitfire
Not yet known
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 | 24 |
| Date | Contributor | Update |
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| 24 December 2014 18:37:14 | Lee8thbuff | Created event |
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Lee Cunningham 24-Dec-2014. Descritpions based on "The Mighty Eighth War Diary" Roger A. Freeman. |
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| Date | Contributor | Update |
| 24 December 2014 18:34:58 | Lee8thbuff | Changes to name and description |
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Lee Cunningham 24-Dec-2014. Descritpions based on "The Mighty Eighth War Diary" Roger A. Freeman. |
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| Date | Contributor | Update |
| 24 December 2014 18:34:12 | Lee8thbuff | Changes to date and description |
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Lee Cunningham 24-Dec-2014. Descritpions based on "The Mighty Eighth War Diary" Roger A. Freeman. |
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| Date | Contributor | Update |
| 24 December 2014 18:31:08 | Lee8thbuff | Changes to event |
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Lee Cunningham 24-Dec-2014. Descritpions based on "The Mighty Eighth War Diary" Roger A. Freeman. |
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| Date | Contributor | Update |
| 27 September 2014 18:43:19 | 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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