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SATURDAY, 29 APRIL 1944
EUROPEAN THEATER OF OPERATIONS (ETO)
STRATEGIC OPERATIONS (Eighth Air Force): Mission 327: 679 bombers
and 814
fighters are dispatched to bomb Berlin, concentrating on railway
facilities;
they claim 95-33-48 Luftwaffe aircraft; 63 bombers and 13 fighters
are lost:
1. 210 of 228 B-17s bomb Berlin; 10 B-17s are lost and 150 damaged;
1
airman is KIA, 7 WIA and 100 MIA.
2. 218 B-17s are dispatched to Berlin; 158 hit the primary, 24 hit
Magdeburg, 10 hit Brandenburg and 4 hit targets of opportunity; 28
B-17s are
lost and 161 damaged; 4 airmen are KIA, 20 WIA and 260 MIA.
3. 212 of 233 B-24s bomb Berlin; 25 B-24s are lost, 2 damaged beyond
repair
and 121 damaged; 13 airmen are KIA, 11 WIA and 246 MIA.
Escort is provided by 117 P-38s, 463 Eighth and Ninth Air Force
P-47s and
234 Eighth and Ninth Air Force P-51s; 3 P-38s and 10 P-51s are lost;
1 P-47
is damaged beyond repair; 7 P-38s, 16 P-47s and 7 P-51s are damaged;
1 pilot
is WIA and 12 MIA.
Mission 328: 4 of 4 B-17s drop 1.06 million leaflets on 21 towns in
Northern France and The Netherlands without loss.
14 B-24s are dispatched on CARPETBAGGER missions without loss.
TACTICAL OPERATIONS (Ninth Air Force): 217 B-26s dispatched to bomb
marshalling yards in France abort the mission because of heavy cloud
cover
over the target area.
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