8th Air Force 426FB

20 June 1944

Mission Details

Description: FIGHTER ESCORT

Notes: P-47 Fighter Groups took part.

Description: AIRFIELD

Mission Statistics

  • Tonnage Dropped: 13 T

MARLE (Primary)

Description: MARSHALLING YARDS

Notes: P-47 Fighter Groups took part. Fighter/bomber and strafing missions on marshalling yards, airfields and Paris surrounds. Claims are all on grounded aircraft.

Mission Statistics

  • Tonnage Dropped: 4 T

PARIS

Description: STRAFING MISSION

Mission Statistics

  • Tonnage Dropped: NA

PARIS - SOISSONS

Description: TARGETS OF OPPORTUNITY

Notes: P-47 Fighter Groups took part.

Mission Statistics

  • Tonnage Dropped: 10 T

PLANTLUNNE (Primary)

Description: AIRFIELD

Mission Statistics

  • Tonnage Dropped: 11 T

Description: AIRFIELD

Notes: P-47 Fighter Groups took part.

Mission Statistics

  • Tonnage Dropped: 13.2 T

Description: MARSHALLING YARDS

Mission Statistics

  • Tonnage Dropped: 1 T

THIONVILLE (Primary)

Description: MARSHALLING YARDS

Mission Statistics

  • Tonnage Dropped: 3 T

Description: MARSHALLING YARDS

Mission Statistics

  • Tonnage Dropped: 2 T

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People

James Alexander Goodson

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 4th Fighter Group 336th Fighter Squadron No 133 'Eagle' Squadron
  • Service Numbers: O-885241
  • Highest Rank: Major
  • Role/Job: Pilot

Revisions

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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'.