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SUNDAY, 30 JULY 1944
EUROPEAN THEATER OF OPERATIONS (ETO)
STRATEGIC OPERATIONS (Eighth Air Force): HQ issues an order
regularizing
under the VIII Air Force Composite Command certain special and
provisional
units carrying out special tactical activities; this is a result of
suggestion made on 2 Mar by Lieutenant General James H Doolittle,
Commanding
General Eighth Air Force, that units engaged in CARPETBAGGER, H2X
(blind-
bombing), night leaflet, and weather missions be put under
centralized
control.
Mission 505: 237 P-47s and P-51s fly sweeps of Evreux, St Quentin,
Paris
and Orleans, France claiming 3-0-1 Luftwaffe aircraft in the air and
9-0-0 on
the ground; 1 P-51 is lost (pilot is MIA) and 3 P-47s and 2 P-51s
are
damaged.
Mission 506: 1 B-17 is dispatched on a night leaflet mission but is
recalled.
31 B-24s fly CARPETBAGGER missions.
TACTICAL OPERATIONS (Ninth Air Force): In France, 450+ A-20s and
B-26s bomb
defenses in the Chaumont area in support of the US First Army;
fighters fly
escort, cover the assault area and armored columns, and carry out
armed
reconnaissance in the Orleans-Paris area; 200+ C-47s fly supply and
evacuation missions to the Continent; and the 410th, 411th and 412th
Fighter
Squadrons, 373d Fighter Group, arrive at Tour-en-Bassin from
Woodchurch,
England with P-47s.
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