OPERATION STARKEY
A "Mock Invasion day," training for D-Day.
VIII Air Support Command Mission 55: 217 B-26's are dispatched to the
coastal defenses around Boulogne, France; 202 hit the targets at
0745-0915 hours; 3 B-26's are lost, 2 are damaged beyond repair and 24
damaged; casualties are 11 KIA, 8 WIA and 19 MIA.
(http://387bg.com/387th%20Bombardment%20Group%20-%20Chronology.htm)
B-26 Marauder 41-18058 ER-S shot down by flak:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/MartinB-26MarauderGroup/message/1950
For more on Operation Starkey:
http://www.combinedops.com/Operation%20Starkey.htm
http://www.ipmsgreatplains.org/OperationStarkey.aspx
http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/content~db=all~content=a789087693~tab=citation
http://forum.12oclockhigh.net/showthread.php?t=410
http://www.ww2f.com/information-requests/15367-operation-starkey-germans.html
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/andrew.etherington/1943/09/09.htm
http://www.ww2aircraft.net/forum/ww2-general/day-war-europe-65-years-ago-6116-74\
.html
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