The Mighty Eighth - Sunday 6 December 1942

SUNDAY, 6 DECEMBER 1942

EUROPEAN THEATER OF OPERATIONS (Eighth Air Force)
On Mission 24, 103 heavy bombers are dispatched against France. Nineteen
are dispatched against the Abbeville/Drucat Airfield; six bomb the target
with one aircraft lost. Sixty six are dispatched against the Atelier
d'Hellemmes locomotive works at Lille; 36 bomb the target with the loss of
one aircraft. Eighteen other aircraft fly a diversion.