USAAF losses over Ploesti 24 June 1944

[researcher111]

Most of the the mission reports and other events at 450 BG website and other 15th AF BG's sites are outdated something which corrected numerous times by historians throughout the years. 450 BG lost 6 aircrafts on that day , in total the 15 Air Force lost 14 bombers and 3 fighters . In addition numerous observations carry wrongly spelled locations while if 450 BG claims that 39 Libs took off from Manduria how could then only 26 of them be over the target ( info updated recently, this after accounting early returns and other) . In summary the 15th AF came up with a max effort of 235 plus Libs in addition to 55 B-17's from 5th BW over target.

PS : For those interested on these figures, best thing is to buy current publications rather use as reference outdated websites

[Alex Smart]

Hello researcher111,

You say -

"Most of the the mission reports and other events at 450 BG website and other 15th AF BG's sites are outdated something which corrected numerous times by historians throughout the years. 450 BG lost 6 aircrafts on that day , while if 450 BG claims that 39 Libs took off from Manduria how could then only 26 of them be over the target ( info updated recently, this after accounting early returns and other)."

If you look again at the numbers.
39 a/c are said to have taken off, OK
3 a/c returned early, OK
29 a/c returned to Base plus 1 returned to Base later, so 30 a/c returned OK
So
39 - 3 = 36 -(29 + 1) = 6

Alex