8th Air Force 559FB
17 August 1944Mission Details
Description: FIGHTER-BOMBER MISSION
PARIS/BRUSSELS
Description: FIGHTER-BOMBER MISSION
Notes: All fighter groups participate except 20th Fighter Group and 361st Fighter Group. Specific unites not correlated in source data. All claims are on the ground.
Mission Statistics
- Tonnage Dropped: 172 T
Revisions
ContributorAAM
Changes
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'.