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SATURDAY, 6 MAY 1944
EUROPEAN THEATER OF OPERATIONS (ETO)
STRATEGIC OPERATIONS (Eighth Air Force): Mission 340: 168 bombers
and 185
fighters are dispatched to hit NOBALL (V-weapon) targets in France;
90 B-17s
dispatched to the Pas de Calais area return to base with bombs due
to cloud
cover over the target; 70 of 78 B-24s hit Siracourt; 48 B-17s are
damaged.
Escort is provided by 57 Ninth Air Force P-38s, 47 P-47s and 81
P-51s without
loss.
Mission 341: 5 of 5 B-17s drop 3.22 million leaflets on 19 towns in
France and Belgium; 1 B-17 encounters a night fighter and claims
0-1-0; the
B-17 is damaged.
22 B-24s are dispatched on CARPETBAGGER operations.
TACTICAL OPERATIONS (Ninth Air Force): 75 B-26s and A-20s dispatched
to
attack coastal defenses abort the mission because of weather.
422d Night Fighter Squadron, 71st Fighter Wing, moves from Charmy
Down to
Scorton, England with P-61s; first mission is 3 Jul.
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