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FRIDAY, 21 APRIL 1944
EUROPEAN THEATER OF OPERATIONS (ETO)
STRATEGIC OPERATIONS (Eighth Air Force): Eighth Air Force offensive
against
German oil targets is scheduled to start on this date, but the
mission is
cancelled because of bad weather.
309th and 310th Troop Carrier Squadrons, Eighth Air Force, arrive at
Spanhoe, England from the US with C-47s; they will be reassigned to
the Ninth
Air Force on 26 Apr.
TACTICAL OPERATIONS (Ninth Air Force): In France, 236 B-26s and 34
A-20s
attack gun positions, coastal defenses and V-weapons sites at
Etaples, at
Berck-sur-Mer, near Doullens, and in the Saint-Omer, Abbeville, and
Amiens
area; 4 B-26s are lost; 175+ P-47s dive-bomb marshalling yards and
concentrations at Montignies-sur-Sambre, Hasselt, Namur, and Haine-Saint-
Pierre.
405th and 406th Fighter Squadrons, 371st Fighter Group, based at
Bisterne,
England with P-47s, begin operating from Ibsley, England.
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