[Stig Jarlevik]

Leendert

Interesting question!
I have also heard something like that in the past.
Not impossible, since the IARC indicates aircraft assignments pretty quickly.

However I cannot believe this really mattered upon dispatch. Aircraft assigned to both 8th and 9th AF ought to have been onboard the same ships across the Atlantic. That in turn ment aircraft for both AFs arrived to the same place. Since I have never tried to study individual aircraft in such details, I don't know if this is correct or not. Did 8th and 9th AF use separate delivery vessels?

When Europe had been invaded vessels started to arrive directly into Allied held ports on the continent and their assigned codes were thus different, such as Wildflower and Wipe.

I presume you have the Masterlist with these codes? If not, send me a PM.

Cheers
Stig