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6 September 1944

Mission Details

Description: TRANSPORTATION TARGETS

Notes: P-38 Fighter Group is 479th Fighter Group. P-47 Fighter Groups is 56th Fighter Group, 78th Fighter Group, 356th Fighter Group, 358th Fighter Group. MAJ Quince Brown, "The Oklahoma Ace" was shot down on his 136 sortie and captured by a Germany civilian who later shot him in the back of the head. The German was tried as a war criminal after the war. MAJ Brown was credited with 13 kills.

Mission Statistics

  • Tonnage Dropped: NA

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Sources

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'.