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TUESDAY, 24 OCTOBER 1944
EUROPEAN THEATER OF OPERATIONS (ETO)
STRATEGIC OPERATIONS (Eighth Air Force): By this date, all
Pathfinder
aircraft of the 482d Bombardment Group (Pathfinder), engaged in H2X
and other
radar training at RAF Alconbury, have been dispersed to bombardment
groups
within the bombardment division, which set up their own H2X
training.
In Germany, 415 P-47s and P-51s are dispatched to attack aircraft
and
ground targets in the Hannover-Kassel area; 73 bomb flak positions
at Elburg,
a factory near Nienburg, and miscellaneous ground targets; bad
weather causes
other fighter-bombers to jettison bombs in the English Channel and
Zuider
Zee; the fighter-bombers strafe transportation and other ground
targets with
good results.
TACTICAL OPERATIONS (Ninth Air Force): In France, bad weather
cancels all
operations except fighter patrols by the IX and XXIX Tactical Air
Commands
over W Germany; the fighters attack rail targets. In Belgium, the
153d
Liaison Squadron, IX Tactical Air Command (attached to First Army),
moves
from Verviers to Spa with L-5s; the 410th and 411th Fighter
Squadrons, 373d
Fighter Group, moves from Reims, France to Le Culot with P-47s.
US STRATEGIC AIR FORCES IN EUROPE (USSTAF): The 173d Liaison
Squadron,
USSTAF, is activated at Orly Airport, Paris with L-4s and UC-78s.
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