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FRIDAY, 22 DECEMBER 1944
EUROPEAN THEATER OF OPERATIONS (ETO)
TACTICAL OPERATIONS
First Tactical Air Force (Provisional): In France, the 404th Fighter
Squadron, 371st Fighter Group, ceases operating from Dijon with
P-47s and
returns to base at Tantonville.
Ninth Air Force: 3 fighter groups of the IX Tactical Air Command are
transferred to the XIX Tactical Air Command to concentrate air power
for
cooperation with the US Third Army to which the main effort against
the Bulge
has been assigned; the groups return to control of the IX Tactical
Air
Command on 25 Dec.
Fighters fly a few strafing, weather reconnaissance, intruder
patrol, and
alert missions; bad weather cancels all other missions. In Belgium,
the 153d
Liaison Squadron, IX Tactical Air Command (attached to Twelfth Army
Group),
moves from Olne to Tongres (air echelon operating from Liege with
L-5s).
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