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MONDAY, 3 JULY 1944
EUROPEAN THEATER OF OPERATIONS (ETO)
STRATEGIC OPERATIONS (Eighth Air Force): 55 B-17s in Italy on the
USSR
shuttle mission join Fifteenth AF bombers in bombing marshalling
yards at
Arad, Rumania; 38 P-51s of the VIII Fighter Command, also on the
shuttle run,
fly escort on the mission.
TACTICAL OPERATIONS (Ninth Air Force): In France, nearly 275
fighters
strafe and bomb strongpoints, gun positions, a fuel dump,
communication
lines, bridges, and patrol the beach in the vicinity of Lessay and
Periers, S
of the US First Army's advance; HQ 358th Fighter Group and 365th
Fighter
Squadron move from High Halden, England to Cretteville with P-47s;
the 30th
Photographic Reconnaissance Squadron, 67th Tactical Reconnaissance
Group,
moves from Middle Wallop, England to Le Molay with F-5s; and the
382d Fighter
Squadron, 363d Fighter Group, moves from Staplehurst, England to
Maupertus
with P-51s.
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