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TUESDAY, 14 SEPTEMBER 1943
EUROPEAN THEATER OF OPERATIONS (Eighth Air Force): VIII Air Support
Command
Mission 57: 108 B-26's are dispatched to the Woenisdrecht Airfield
in the
Netherlands and Lille/Nord Airfield in France; they are recalled due
to
weather; 18 B-26's are damaged; casualties are 3 WIA.
HQ 2d Combat Bombardment Wing (Heavy) transfers from Old Catton to
Hethel, England and HQ 20th Combat Bombardment Wing (Heavy)
transfers from
Cheddington to Horsham St Faith, England.
HQ 55th Fighter Group and it's 38th, 338th and 343d Fighter
Squadrons
arrive at Nuthampstead, England from the US with P-38's. The group
will fly
it's first combat mission on 15 Oct.
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