The Mighty Eighth - Thursday, 2 December 1943

THURSDAY, 2 DECEMBER 1943

EUROPEAN THEATER OF OPERATIONS

ALLIED EXPEDITIONARY AIR FORCE (AEAF): The Combined Chiefs of Staff (CCS)
authorizes AEAF to attack "sky sites" in the Pas de Calais area and on the
Cherbourg Peninsula in France, which RAF photography and British intelligence
have virtually identified as missile-launching sites.

STRATEGIC OPERATIONS (Eighth Air Force): VIII Bomber Command Mission 146: 1
B-17 flies an Oboe test over Huls, Germany at 2139 hours dropping two 2,000
pound (907 kg) GP bombs and 1 photoflash bomb. 4 B-17's drop 2.09 million
leaflets on Bremen, Oldenburg and Hamburg, Germany. No casualties on either