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FRIDAY, 3 NOVEMBER 1944
EUROPEAN THEATER OF OPERATIONS (ETO)
AIRBORNE OPERATIONS (IX Troop Carrier Command): In France, HQ 50th
Troop
Carrier Wing moves from Le Mans to Chartres; HQ 441st Troop Carrier
Group
and the 100th and 301st Troop Carrier Squadrons move from St Marceau
to Dreux
with C-47s.
TACTICAL OPERATIONS (Ninth Air Force): In Germany, 140+ B-26s and
A-20s hit
a rail overpass at Kaiserslautern, and rail bridges at Neuwied-Irlich,
Bad
Munster am Stein, Morscheid and Konz-Karthaus; fighters fly armed
reconnaissance, ground forces cover, attack railroads, bridge, and
observation posts in W Germany, and escort 9th Bombardment Division
aircraft. In France, HQ 64th Fighter Wing moves from Dole to Ludres;
HQ
50th Fighter Group and the 10th, 81st and 313th Fighter Squadrons
move from
Lyons/Bron to Toul/Ochey with P-47s; the 34th Photographic
Reconnaissance
Squadron, XII Tactical Air Command (attached to Provisional
Reconnaissance
Group), moves from Dijon to Azelot with F-5s.
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