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MONDAY, 15 MAY 1944
EUROPEAN THEATER OF OPERATIONS (ETO)
STRATEGIC OPERATIONS (Eighth Air Force): Mission 356: 166 bombers
and 104
fighters hit V-weapon sites in France with 1 fighter lost; 38 of 58
B-17s
bomb Marquise/Mimoyecques with 5 B-17s damaged; 90 of 108 B-24s bomb
Siracourt with 8 B-24s damaged; escort is provided by 104 P-51s with
1 lost
(pilot is MIA).
Mission 357: 3 of 3 B-17s drop 1.1 million leaflets on 10 towns in
Belgium and France; 1 B-17 crash lands on returning to base, 1
airman is
KIA, 3 WIA.
5 B-24s are dispatched on CARPETBAGGER operations.
HQ 479th Fighter Group and 434th and 436th Fighter Squadrons arrive
at
Wattisham, England from the US with P-38Js; first mission is 26 May.
TACTICAL OPERATIONS (Ninth Air Force): In France, 45 A-20s and B-26s
bomb
airfields at Creil and Evreux/Fauville and Somain marshalling yard;
300+
others are forced to abandon missions because of thick clouds.
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