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FRIDAY, 22 SEPTEMBER 1944
EUROPEAN THEATER OF OPERATIONS (ETO)
STRATEGIC OPERATIONS (Eighth Air Force): Mission 645: 661 bombers
are
dispatched to hit armoured vehicle and votor vehicle factories at
Kassel/
Henschel, Germany bombing by PFF; 453 B-17s are dispatched; 410 hit
the
primary, 10 hit Wetzlar and 7 hit targets of opportunity; 3 B-17s
are lost
and 104 damaged; 7 airmen are WIA and 27 MIA; 208 of 208 B-24s hit
the
primary; 3 bombers are damaged. Escort is provided by 268 of 286
P-51s; 1 is
lost (pilot MIA) and 1 damaged beyond repair.
The last Operations FRANTIC missions ends as 84 B-17s and 51 P-51s
return
to the UK from Italy; the remaining aircraft return on 8 Oct.
77 of 79 P-47s patrol the Arnhem, the Netherlands area; 1 P-47 is
lost and
1 damaged beyond repair.
108 B-24s fly fuel to France.
TACTICAL OPERATIONS (Ninth Air Force): No bomber missions are flown.
In
Germany, fighters attack railroads, supply and ordnance depots, and
strongpoints, and fly sweeps and armed reconnaissance over the
Cologne,
Dusseldorf, Aachen, Koblenz, Trier, Bonn, Mannheim, and Strasbourg
areas. In
France, HQ 406th Fighter Group and the 513th Fighter Squadron move
from Le
Mans to Mourmelon-le-Grand with P-47s; the 377th Fighter Squadron,
362d
Fighter Group, moves from Rennes to Prosnes with P-47s.
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