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FRIDAY, 26 MAY 1944
EUROPEAN THEATER OF OPERATIONS (ETO)
STRATEGIC OPERATIONS (Eighth Air Force): Mission 372: 4 of 4 B-17s
drop
leaflets in The Netherlands without loss.
P-38s participate in 2 sweep over The Netherlands for
familiarization
purposes without loss; 1 sweep consists of 30 aircraft, the second
consists
of 28 aircraft.
TACTICAL OPERATIONS (Ninth Air Force): In France, nearly 400 B-26s
and
A-20s attack airfields at Beaumont-sur-Oise and Chartres and bridges
at
Vernon and Poissy; 108 P-47 and P-51 fighter-bombers hit a bridge at
Oissel
and airfields at Creil, Cormeilles-en-Vesin and Evreux/Fauville;
P-47s and
P-38s dive-bomb targets in NW Europe.
425th Night Fighter Squadron, Ninth Air Force, arrives at Chormy
Down,
England from the US with P-61s; first mission is in Jul 44.
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