8th Air Force 642FB

19 September 1944

Mission Details

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Description: FIGHTER-BOMBER MISSION

Notes: All P-51 Fighter Groups took part. Fighters fly patrols in Holland area of OPERATION MARKET GARDEN. Heavy ground fire.

Mission Statistics

  • Tonnage Dropped: NA

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People

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 448th Bomb Group 712th Bomb Squadron 490th Quartermaster Company
  • Service Numbers: 36542481
  • Highest Rank: Private First Class
  • Role/Job: Drop Master
  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 93rd Bomb Group 409th Bomb Squadron
  • Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant
  • Role/Job: Tail Gunner

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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'.