[303rd-Talk] Multiple groups

[jprencher at aol.com]

Chuck,
???? We nearly always flew with?other groups. Many of them. One group usually put up 48 planes in a mission. Some times we had 1000 plane raids. Some of them would be fighterss but most of them bombers. As I remember the 1st devision consited of 3 groups. The 384th, 379th and the 303rd if my memorery is accurate.? We nearly always went with at least those three and then some.

We would usually have different targets but in the same general area. That way our fighters could be with us and we had tremendous fire power.? Be aware, B17s shot down more German fighters than any other plane in our war.? It took a lot of guts for the German fighters to attack a tight formation

of B17s.



?? Jack Rencher


























-----Original Message-----
From: Jim Walling <jimwalling at hawaii.rr.com>
To: 303rd Bomb Group Talk Forum <303rd-talk at 303rdBG.com>
Sent: Sat, 4 Aug 2007 3:32 pm
Subject: Re: [303rd-Talk] Multiple groups



In all my 36 missions I never flew on one that did not have multiple bomb groups flying the mission.. Jim Walling?
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At 03:31 AM 8/4/2007, you wrote:?
>I have a question> Were there more than one bomb group participating in a >single mission? And if so, what group/groups did 303 fly with??
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>Thanks?
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>Chuck Atwood?
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