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WEDNESDAY, 29 NOVEMBER 1944
EUROPEAN THEATER OF OPERATIONS (ETO)
STRATEGIC OPERATIONS (Eighth Air Force): 2 missions are flown.
Mission 729: 1,077 bombers and 946 fighters are dispatched to make
PFF
attacks on viaduct rail targets and oil refineries in Germany; 1
bomber is
lost:
1. 445 B-17s are sent to hit the oil refinery at Misburg (391);
targets of
opportunity are Osnabrcuk (36) and others (5); 6 B-17s are damaged.
Escorting
are 419 P-47s and P-51s without loss.
2. 307 B-24s are sent to hit the Schildesche rail viaduct at
Bielefeld
(152) and the Altenbeken rail viaduct (144); 2 others hit targets of
opportunity; 1 B-24 is lost and 9 damaged; 10 airmen are MIA.
Escorting are
261 P-47s and P-51s without loss.
3. 312 B-17s are sent to hit the Hamm marshalling yard (294); 4
others hit
targets of opportunity; 1 B-17 is damaged beyond repair and 87
damaged; 3
airmen are WIA. Escorting are 112 of 120 P-51s without loss.
4. 12 of 13 B-17s fly a screen mission and hit a target of
opportunity.
Escorting are 26 of 32 P-47s without loss.
5. 31 of 34 P-51s fly a scouting mission.
Mission 730: 6 B-17s and 7 B-24s drop leaflets in the Netherlands
and
Germany during the night.
HQ 489th Bombardment Group (Heavy) and the 844th, 846th and 847th
Bombardment Squadrons (Heavy) depart Halesworth, England for the US;
this
B-24 group will become a B-29s outfit that is destined for the
Pacific.
TACTICAL OPERATIONS (Ninth Air Force): In Germany, 301 B-26s and
A-20s hit
defended areas, barracks, and military depots at Wittlich,
Mariaweiler, Pier,
Eisdorf, Limburg, Rastatt, and Landau; fighters escort the 9th
Bombardment
Division and Eighth AF, fly armed reconnaissance over W Germany, and
support
the 104th Infantry Division in a holding action against
counterattacks at
Inden and Lammersdorf, the 8th Infantry Division at Hurtgen, and the
7th
Armored Division in the XIII Corps drive toward the Roer. HQ 10th
Photographic Group (Reconnaissance) and teh 31st Photographic
Reconnaissance
Squadron with F-5s moves from Robinson Airfield, St-Dizier to
Doncourt
Airfield, Conflans and Jarny, France respectfully.
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