The Mighty Eighth - Wednesday, 18 August 1943

WEDNESDAY, 18 AUGUST 1943

EUROPEAN THEATER OF OPERATIONS

STRATEGIC OPERATIONS (Eighth Air Force): VIII Air Support Command
Missions 25A and 25B: Two Luftwaffe airfields are targetted:
1. 36 B-26's are dispatched to Lille/Vendeville Airfield in France;
because of mechanical trouble with communications equipment and the
bombsight in the lead plane, 22 aircraft bomb the Ypres/Vlamertinge Air-
field in Belgium at 1016 hours; 23 aircraft are damaged; there are no
casualties.
2. 36 B-26's are dispatched to Woensdrecht Airfield in the Netherlands;
32 hit the target at 1032 hours; 8 aircraft are damaged; there are no
casualties.