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SUNDAY, 23 APRIL 1944
EUROPEAN THEATER OF OPERATIONS (ETO)
STRATEGIC OPERATIONS (Eighth Air Force): Mission 313: 382 fighters
attack
airfields and other targets in N France, Belgium and NW Germany;
results are
generally good:
1. 136 P-38s attack Laon, Tours and Chateaudun Airfields, France
using
Droopsnoot aircraft; they claim 1-0-1 Luftwaffe aircraft on the
ground; 2
P-38s are lost, 2 damaged beyond repair and 2 damaged; 2 pilots are
MIA.
2. 166 P-47s attack Leningen, Le Culot and Chievres Airfields,
Belgium and
Denain/Prouvy and Hagenau Airfields, France; they claim 7-0-22
Luftwaffe
aircraft on the ground; 5 P-47s are lost and 19 damaged; 5 pilots
are MIA.
3. 80 P-51s hit unknown targets; they claim 3-0-1 Luftwaffe aircraft
on the
ground; 2 are damaged; no losses.
Mission 314: 5 of 5 B-17s drop 1.78 million leaflets on Rennes,
Brest,
Lorient, St Nazaire and Nantes, France at 2354-0012 hours without
loss.
9 B-24s are dispatched on CARPETBAGGER operations.
4th, 7th, 18th and 391st Bombardment Squadrons (Heavy), 34th
Bombardment
Group (Heavy), arrive at Mendelsham, England from the US with B-24s
(first
mission is 23 May).
TACTICAL OPERATIONS (Ninth Air Force): 307 B-26s and 57 A-20s attack
NOBALL
(V-weapon) targets, gun positions and marshalling yards in the Pas
de Calais,
France area and in an adjacent area of Belgium. Around 1,000 P-47s
and P-51s
dive-bomb numerous targets throughout France and the Low Countries.
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