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18 September 1944
IWM, Roger Freeman Collection
Object Number - FRE 1673 - B-24 Liberators of the 392nd Bomb Group fly low over countryside. First handwritten caption on reverse: 'Holland or Rhine re supply 392 BG.' Second...
Mission Details
ARNHEM-NIJMEGEN
Description: SUPPLY DROP
Notes: 782 tons of supplies are dropped to the First Allied Airborne Army. The flak is intense and 7 of the bombers are shot down.550 + P-38s, P-47s and P-51s provide escort the B-24s and the C-47s dropping the second troop echelon near Arnhem. 20 fighters are lost, 9 damaged beyond repair and 46 damaged (split not given in available data). 1 fighter pilot is KILLED IN ACTION (KIA) and 20 others are MIA. In other developments, elements of US Third Army capture Brest, France. 2nd Bomb Division was made up of 44th BG, 93rd Bomb Group 392nd BG, 446th BG, 448th BG, 492nd BG,
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People
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 314th Troop Carrier Group 61st Troop Carrier Squadron
- Highest Rank: Second Lieutenant
- Role/Job: Navigator
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 44th Bomb Group 68th Bomb Squadron
- Highest Rank: Second Lieutenant
- Role/Job: Navigator
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Associated Media based on images associated with missions in Freeman, The Mighty Eighth War Diary.
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'.