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MONDAY, 29 MAY 1944
EUROPEAN THEATER OF OPERATIONS (ETO)
STRATEGIC OPERATIONS (Eighth Air Force): Mission 379: 993 bombers
and 673
fighters are dispatched to attack aircraft plants and oil
installations in
Germany and Poland; they claim 117-38-49 Luftwaffe aircraft; 34
bombers and
10 fighters are lost:
1. 443 B-24s are dispatched to hit an oil terminal at Politz (224
bomb)
and airfield and aircraft assembly plant at Tutow (167 bomb); 14 hit
Rensburg
Airfield, 9 hit Misdroy and 1 hits Schwerin; they claim 29-15-10
Luftwaffe
aircraft; 17 B-24s are lost, 3 damaged beyond repair and 150
damaged; 2
airmen are KIA, 10 WIA and 161 MIA.
2. 251 B-17s are dispatched to hit aviation industry targets at
Leipzig/
Mockau (149 bomb) and Leipzig/Heiterblick (50 bomb); 4 others hit
targets of
opportunity; they claim 11-4-5 Luftwaffe aircraft; 9 B-17s are lost
and 80
damaged; 3 airmen are WIA and 90 MIA.
3. 299 B-17s are dispatched to hit aviation industry targets at
Krzesinki
(91 bomb) and Posen (58 bomb), Poland and Sorau (52 bomb) and
Cottbus (48
bomb), Germany; 19 others hit Schneidemuhl Airfield and 2 hit
targets of
opportunity; they claim 22-18-14 Luftwaffe aircraft; 8 B-17s are
lost and 97
damaged; 5 airmen are WIA and 67 MIA.
Escort is provided by 184 P-38s, 187 P-47s and 302 P-51s; the P-38s
claim
none and none are lost; the P-47s claim 1-0-1 Luftwaffe aircraft
with the
loss of 4 P-47s (3 pilots are MIA) and 3 damaged; the P-52s claim
38-1-4
Luftwaffe aircraft in the air and 16-0-15 on the ground with the
loss of 6
P-51s (5 pilots are MIA) and 6 damaged. 592 Ninth Air Force fighters
also
support the mission; they claim 1-0-0 Luftwaffe aircraft and lose 2
fighters.
23 B-24s are dispatched on CARPETBAGGER missions; 1 is lost.
TACTICAL OPERATIONS (Ninth Air Force): 450+ B-26s and A-20s bomb
airfields,
marshalling yards, railroad bridges, coastal battery and NOBALL
(V-weapon)
targets in France and Belgium. 200+ P-47s bomb targets in the same
area.
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