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11 August 1944
Saarbrucken Germany: Sortie 2833 of the 14th PRS, 7th PRG flown in Spitfire MK XI PL 866 on August 11, 1944.
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PHOTOGRAPHIC RECONNAISSANCE MISSION
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Group
Based for the majority of their service at Mount Farm, Oxfordshire, the 7th Photographic Group (Reconnaissance) took over three million intelligence photos during the course of 4,251 sorties over occupied Europe. The Group was awarded a Distinguished...
| Tonnage dropped | NA |
SCOUTING MISSION
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DH98
Group
The 25th Bombardment Group (Reconnaissance) was constituted in the days after D-Day and activated in England in August 1944 to carry out photographic and mapping missions over mainland Europe as the Allied armies pushed east. The Group were designated...
| Tonnage dropped | NA |
WEATHER RECONNAISSANCE MISSION
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DH98
Group
The 25th Bombardment Group (Reconnaissance) was constituted in the days after D-Day and activated in England in August 1944 to carry out photographic and mapping missions over mainland Europe as the Allied armies pushed east. The Group were designated...
| Tonnage dropped | NA |
WEATHER RECONNAISSANCE MISSION
Not yet known
Not yet known
Group
The 25th Bombardment Group (Reconnaissance) was constituted in the days after D-Day and activated in England in August 1944 to carry out photographic and mapping missions over mainland Europe as the Allied armies pushed east. The Group were designated...
| Tonnage dropped | NA |
CARPETBAGGER MISSION
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28 of 31 B-24s fly CARPETBAGGER missions.
Group
The 801st Bomb Group was established as part of the Eighth Air Force in late March 1944 to carry out 'Carpetbagger' missions. These were night missions over France and other parts of occupied Europes to support resistance forces by dropping in agents,...
| Tonnage dropped | NA |
Spitfire
Supermarine Spitfire PL866 PR Mk XI, Built at Aldermaston.
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| Date | Contributor | Update |
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| 27 September 2014 18:43:10 | AAM | AAM ingest |
| 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'. |
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