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SATURDAY, 9 DECEMBER 1944
EUROPEAN THEATER OF OPERATIONS (ETO)
STRATEGIC OPERATIONS (Eighth Air Force): 2 missions are flown.
Mission 743: 413 B-17s are dispatched to hit the Unterturkheim
marshalling
yard (262) and Boblingen (94) and Echterdingen (25) Airfields at
Stuttgart,
Germany using GH; targets of opportunity are Halingen (10) and other
(4); 1
B-17 is lost, 4 damaged beyond repair and 63 damaged; 3 airmen are
WIA and
9 MIA. Escorting are 247 P-47s and P-51s; they claim 1-0-0 aircraft
without
loss; 6 of 7 P-51s fly a scouting mission.
Mission 744: 4 B-17s and 7 B-24s drop leaflets in the Netherlands,
France
and Germany during the night without loss.
TACTICAL OPERATIONS (Ninth Air Force): In Germany, 254 A-20s, A-26s,
and
B-26s bomb defended villages, storage depots, barracks area, and
marshalling
yard in W Germany; fighters escort the 9th Bombardment Division,
sweep the
Landau and Saarbrucken areas, attack Zulpich and a bridge at
Euskirchen, and
support the XII and XX Corps in the Sarreguemines, France and Saar
River area
and around Dillingen.
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