718
20 November 1944Mission Details
Description: FIGHTER-BOMBER MISSION
Notes: A mix of 310 P-47s and P-51s fly a fighter-bomber mission to targets in Western Germany.
GELSENKIRCHEN
Description: SCREENING MISSION
GELSENKIRCHEN/SCHOWEN
Description: OIL REFINERY
Notes: A mix of 214 P-47s and P51s provide escort. Mix not given in available data.
MUNSTER
Description: MARSHALLING YARDS
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Aircraft
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Nicknames: Lorraine
- Unit: 384th Bomb Group 544th Bomb Squadron
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Nicknames: Pleasure Bent
- Unit: 384th Bomb Group 544th Bomb Squadron
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Nicknames: Sweet Chariot
- Unit: 384th Bomb Group 546th Bomb Squadron
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Unit: 385th Bomb Group 384th Bomb Group 546th Bomb Squadron
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Unit: 92nd Bomb Group 384th Bomb Group 545th Bomb Squadron
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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'.