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SATURDAY, 28 OCTOBER 1944
EUROPEAN THEATER OF OPERATIONS (ETO)
STRATEGIC OPERATIONS (Eighth Air Force): 2 missions are flown.
Mission 691: 382 bombers and 217 fighters are dispatched on PFF
attacks on
marshalling yards in Germany; 3 bombers and 2 fighters are lost.
1. 184 of 192 B-17s hit the marshalling yard at Hamm; 1 other hits a
target
of opportunity; 1 B-17 is damaged beyond repair and 42 damaged.
Escort is
provided by 93 of 105 P-51s without loss.
2. 178 of 190 B-17s hit the marshalling yard at Munster; 3 B-17s are
lost,
1 damaged beyond repair and 96 damaged; 12 airmen are WIA and 29
MIA. Escort
is provided by 106 of 112 P-51s; 2 P-51s are lost (pilots MIA).
Mission 692: 3 B-17s and 6 B-24s drop leaflets in France, the
Netherlands
and Germany during the night.
TACTICAL OPERATIONS (Ninth Air Force): HQ 9th Bombardment Division
moves
from Chartres to Reims, France. In Germany, 45 B-26s bomb rail
bridges at
Sinzig, Kempenich, and Ahrweiler, and airfield at Euskirchen;
fighters escort
the bombers, fly sweeps and armed reconnaissance over W Germany,
attack 6
bridges and 1 tunnel, and support US XIX Corps in Belgium near the
German
border. In Belgium, the 23d Fighter Squadron, 36th Fighter Group,
moves from
Juvincourt, France to Le Culot with P-47s. In France, HQ 367th
Fighter Group
and the 392d and 393d Fighter Squadrons move from Clastres to
Juvincourt with
P-38s.
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