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THURSDAY, 14 SEPTEMBER 1944
EUROPEAN THEATER OF OPERATIONS (ETO)
AIRBORNE OPERATIONS (IX Troop Carrier Command): C-47s continue
large-scale
supply and evacuation missions in France.
STRATEGIC OPERATIONS (Eighth Air Force): Mission 632: 2 B-17 control
aircraft and 2 B-17 CASTOR drones fly an APHRODITE mission to the
oil
refinery at Hemmingstedt, Germany; the target is missed.
TACTICAL OPERATIONS (Ninth Air Force): In France, HQ XXIX Tactical
Air
Command (Provisional) is activated at Vermand, in anticipation of
operating
with the US Ninth Army, shortly to join the Twelfth Army Group;
Brigadier
General Richard E Nugent is Commanding General; about 140 B-26s and
A-20s
bomb gun emplacements and strongpoints in the Brest area; fighters
fly armed
reconnaissance in various battle areas; HQ 358th Fighter Group moves
from
Pontorson to Vitry-le-Francois; HQ 405th Fighter Group and the 511th
Fighter
Squadron move from Picauville to St-Dizier with P-47s; the 14th
Liaison
Squadron, XIX Tactical Air Command (attached to Third Army), moves
from
Marson to Gussainville with L-5s; the 387th Fighter Squadron, 365th
Fighter
Group, moves from Bretigny to Juvincourt with P-47s.
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