Operation Frantic Joe

Operation Frantic Joe

Infobox Military Conflict
conflict=Operation Frantic Joe
partof= Strategic bombing during World War II


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date=June 2, 1944
place=Debrecen, Hungary
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combatant1=
combatant2=
commander1= Ira C. Eaker
commander2=
strength1=B-17s: 197
P-51s: 70
strength2=
casualties1=B-17: 1 during operations (tbd at USSR bases)
casualties2=|

Operation Frantic Joe [NOTE: The name Frantic Joe was changed to Frantic to avoid any possible reference to Joseph Stalin, the Soviet dictator.Fact|date=December 2007] was the "inauguration of the" [United States] "shuttle bombing operations"

citation |title=15th Air Force 1944 Report |date=1945-02-27 |author=Army Air Forces ] (Operation Frantic). 170 B-17s bombed the Debreczen marshalling yard and landed in the Soviet Union (B-17s at Poltava and Mirgorod, P-51s at Piryatin). 27 other B-17s that were to bomb the Oradea marshalling yard also bombed Debreczen.cite web|last=|first=|url=http://paul.rutgers.edu/%7Emcgrew/wwii/usaf/html/Jun.44.html |title=USAAF Chronology|work=|accessdate=2008-07-28 |publisher=rutgers.edu NOTE: In addition to Operation Frantic Joe, on June 2 nearly 400 other 15th AF B-24 Liberators attacked marshalling yards at Szeged, Miskolc and Szolnok, Hungary and Simeria, Rumania. P-51s and P-38s provided escort.]

The attack supported Red Army operationsFact|date=December 2007 which coincided with the Invasion of Normandy. German fighters subsequently attacked the bombers on Soviet airfields at FocsaniFact|date=December 2007 after a German spotter plane located the American aircraft.Fact|date=December 2007 Concerns raised by this effective German air raid derailed plans to maintain a large force of American bombers in the Soviet Union permanently.Fact|date=December 2007

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