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the Eighth Army Air Force (8 AAF) was a United States Army Air Forces combat air force in the European theater of World War II (1939/41–1945), engaging in operations primarily in the Northern Europe area of responsibility; carrying out strategic bombing of enemy targets in France, the Low Countries, and Germany; [3] and engaging in air-to-air ...
The Mighty Eighth in World War II: A Memoir. Lexington, KY: Kentucky University Press. ISBN 978-0-813121-78-9. Miller, Kent D. (2000). Fighter Units & Pilots of the 8th Air Force September 1942 – May 1945. Vol. 1 Day-to-Day Operations – Fighter Group Histories. Atglen, PA: Schiffer Publishing. ISBN 0-7643-1241-3.
To facilitate control among thousands of bombers, the USAAF devised a system of aircraft tail markings in 1943 to identify groups and wings. Both the Eighth and Fifteenth Air Forces used a system of large, readily-identifiable geometric symbols combined with alphanumerics to designate groups when all USAAF bombers were painted olive drab in ...
The Air Force Historical Studies Office summarizes the execution of USAAF strategy during World War II: [44] "Arnold's staff made the first priority in the war to launch a strategic bombing offensive in support of the RAF against Germany. The Eighth Air Force, sent to England in 1942, took on that job.
Eighth Air Force Military unit The Scouting Forces were several fighter flights formed by Eighth Air Force during World War II with a mission to check for Anti-Aircraft (flak) sites; weather conditions, and for Luftwaffe interceptor airfields and units in advance of heavy bomber missions over Occupied Europe and Nazi Germany .
Bowman, Martin W. Bomber Bases of WW2 – 2nd Air Division, 8th Air Force USAAF, 1942–45: Liberator Squadrons in Norfolk And Suffolk. Pen and Sword Books, 2007. ISBN 1-84415-547-1. Bowman, Martin W. Fields of Little America: an Illustrated History of the 8th Air Force, 2nd Air Division, 1942–45. Norwich, Norfolk, UK: Wensum Books Ltd., 1977.
During World War II the group was an Eighth Air Force fighter unit stationed in England. ... (USAAF Station 369), England, 5 October 1943 – 4 November 1945;
The 357th Fighter Group was an air combat unit of the United States Army Air Forces during the Second World War. The 357th operated P-51 Mustang aircraft as part of the U.S. Eighth Air Force and its members were known unofficially as the Yoxford Boys after the village of Yoxford near their base in the UK.