Many thanks for the response!
@Marcel: (1) I have Freeman's
The Mighty Eighth War Diary and it only occasionally will mention escorts strafing airfields but never with the resulting claims; (2) those would the coveted "A" and "B" Reports, I think, where the Allied team arrived on an airfield a day or a couple of days after the ground troops captured it to investigate the wrecks the Luftwaffe had left behind. Very comprehensive reports, in many cases. PRO/TNA Kew and AFHRA Maxwell both have copies. Marcel van H. already has a bunch of these, IIRC. Does this sound like the reports you are after?
@Bill: I read reviews of the Miller volumes this morning and they sounded like statistical summaries of the daily missions without details on the ground targets strafed and the claimed results. It
sounded more like this: "5 Apr 44 - 4th Fighter Gp. - in the air 5/1/6, on the ground 3/-/2." Hopefully, someone who has these books can shed some more light on what a typical entry includes.
@Larry: I ran into this one today but without a review or content description. I'll take another look.
I'm hoping to find this detail in a published book because AFHRA Maxwell has only a spotty holding of VIII Fighter Command Intel/Ops Sums for 1944 (7 out of 12 monthly's, IIRC) and only for 1 month of 1945.
Thanks again.
Larry
