100 Plus Missions

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Curious as to how many bombers, of any nation, completed 100 or more missions during WWII. A quick check online shows claims of numerous B-25, B-26, B-17 and B-24 doing so, but no actual listing of aircraft for such claims. In each case only a few aircraft are specifically detailed.

I have the book 'Ton Up Lancs', which details the 35 that completed 100 or more missions. Any other books with hard facts on other types?

 

[bf109xxl]

Curious as to how many bombers, of any nation, completed 100 or more missions during WWII.

Many Soviet pilots from light night bomber regiments (Po-2) flew several hundred missions. For example, Irina Sebrova flew more than 1,000 missions, and Natalya Meklin (Kravtsova) flew 980.
Pavel Plotnikov (SB, Ar-2, Pe-2, A-20) flew 344 missions, and Vasily Reshetnikov (Il-4, later commanded the Soviet Long-Range Aviation) flew 307.
It is necessary to specify which bombers are being referred to; otherwise, the list - taking Soviet pilots into account - will be very long.

 

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Not interested in the people. I know that many German and Soviet airmen flew literally hundreds of missions.

I'm after documented details of the 'aircraft' types that flew 100 or more missions.

 

[bf109xxl]

Not interested in the people. I know that many German and Soviet airmen flew literally hundreds of missions.

I'm after documented details of the 'aircraft' types that flew 100 or more missions.

B-17's which have completed 100 missions or more

 

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Fantastic bf109. Just what I was hoping for. Many thank,s greatly appreciated

 

[Crimea_River]

Mosquito LR503 did 213 ops. F For Freddie - Calgary's VE Day Tragedy

 

[Jadera]

Fantastic bf109. Just what I was hoping for. Many thank,s greatly appreciated

You can see that some of the b-24s listed in here have more than 100 missions B-24 Aircraft Listings of WWII

 

[cammerjeff]

Here is a link that lists a couple of well known B-26's with over 100 combat missions

MILD AND BITTER, FLAK BAIT and the other ETO 100-mission B-26 Marauders - The Aviation Geek Club

The all-time B-26 mission record went to FLAK BAIT with no less than 202 sorties

theaviationgeekclub.com

 

[Wildcat]

A couple of RAAF Beauforts in the PTO did -
Scotty's Homin Pidgin

And A9-557 which flew 102 missions and is restored at the Australian War Memorial

Beaufort Mk VIII Bomber A9-557: 100 Squadron RAAF

 

[Boom]

All great, many thanks. I'm aware that a number of B-26 (surprisingly, given its start) )also achieved more than 100 missions, Flak Bait in particular having flown 206 missions!

But other than the achievements of individual aircraft, what I'm hoping for is a definitive count by 'bomber types' that flew 100 or more missions. Am quite surprised that there doesn't seem to be hard facts covering actual totals for the US 5th, 8th, 9th, 12th and 15th Air Forces. I would have thought that the Americans would have loved keeping those stats. They were certainly keen wanting to do so for their fighter aces.

Only the 20th Air Force seems to have kept good mission count totals.

 

[GrauGeist]

The Luftwaffe's Ju88 was known to reach high mission counts.

 

[Just Schmidt]

It's only speculation, so take it as that. I'd hazard that some Ju 87Bs reached 100 missions if they were in Poland - France - Balkans and early Eastern front. During the hottest periods these could fly several missions a day.