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.
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