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Originally Posted by Alfred.MONZAT
In such cases, in addition to Roger Freeman's War Diary and Kent's books (and Donald Caldwell's Day Fighters in Defence of the Reich: A War Diary), there's one nice online source, the database from Duxford Museum. Here's the entry for this mission: https://www.americanairmuseum.com/mission/376 |
Sure those are good sources. For a good picture of the USAAF fighter operations (much) more research is often required.
The Duxford database is great, but be careful: double checking is required, since the database is a kind of wiki where everybody can ad/delete/alter/correct as they see fit.
https://www.8thafhs.org/ is a good one too, but also here: double check everything. In general, my advice is to use the original documents for research, thus the field orders, mission reports, the macrs etc.
But also the official information e.g. on the actual targets is not always complete/correct - Freeman et al based its publications largely on these official reports. I usually use German sources to identify the targets and often I visit the locations for on the spot research.