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TUESDAY, 28 NOVEMBER 1944
EUROPEAN THEATER OF OPERATIONS (ETO)
STRATEGIC OPERATIONS (Eighth Air Force): Mission 728: 6 B-17s and 6
B-24s
drop leaflets on the Netherlands and Germany during the night. The
845th
Bombardment Squadron (Heavy), 489th Bombardment Group (Heavy),
departs
Halesworth, England for the US; the squadron will transition to
B-29s in
1945.
TACTICAL OPERATIONS (Ninth Air Force): In Germany, the 9th
Bombardment
Division hits the defended villages of Birgel and Merken, a rail
bridge at
Sinzig, and a Billiger Forest ammunition dump; fighters fly escort,
night
intruder missions, and armed reconnaissance in the Kall-Trier area,
and
support the US 1st, 8th, and 104th Infantry Divisions as they take
Langerwehe, Jungersdorf, Hurtgen, and the bridge at Inden.
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