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WEDNESDAY, 28 JUNE 1944
EUROPEAN THEATER OF OPERATIONS (ETO)
STRATEGIC OPERATIONS (Eighth Air Force): Mission 445: 992 bombers
and 638
fighters are dispatched to targets in France, Germany and Belgium; 2
bombers
and 2 fighters are lost. 485 B-17s attack targets in France: 72 hit
Laon/
Couvron Airfield, 64 hit Juvincourt Airfield, 60 hit Laon/Athies
Airfield, 36
hit Fismes bridge, 28 hit Denain/Prouvy Airfield, 24 hit targets of
opportunity, 20 hit Anizy le Chateau bridge, 19 hit Le Bourget
Airfield and
18 hit the Dugny oil depot; 1 B-17s is lost, 1 damaged beyond repair
and 99
damaged; 2 airmen are WIA and 9 MIA. Of 378 B-24s, 331 hit
Saarbrucken
marshalling yards, 11 hit Florennes/Juzaine Airfield and 1 hits
Givet Bridge;
1 B-24 is lost and 125 damaged; 8 airmen are WIA and 10 MIA. Escort
is
provided by 188 P-38s, 169 P-47s and 231 P-51s; they claim 1-0-0
Luftwaffe
aircraft; 1 P-47 and 1 P-51 are lost (pilots are MIA) and 2 P-51s
damaged
beyond repair. About one-third of the escorting fighters afterward
bomb and
strafe transport targets, claiming 3 locomotives and an armored
vehicle
destroyed.
30 of 50 P-47s fly a fighter-bomber mission against La Perthe
Airfield
without loss.
18 B-24s fly CARPETBAGGER missions in France.
TACTICAL OPERATIONS (Ninth Air Force): 220+ fighters, based in
France,
attack railroad facilities, bridges, fuel and ammunition dumps,
artillery,
troop concentrations, vehicles, and other targets; bad weather
cancels bomber
and fighter operations from the UK; HQ 365th Fighter Group moves
from
Beaulieu, England to Azeville; and 107th Tactical Reconnaissance
Squadron,
67th Tactical Reconnaissance Group, moves from Middle Wallop,
England to
Jumeaux with F-6s. In England, 422d Night Fighter Squadron, 71st
Fighter
Wing, based at Scorton with P-61s, sends a detachment to operate
from Hern.
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