30 August 1943MONDAY, 30 AUGUST 1943
EUROPEAN THEATER OF OPERATIONS
STRATEGIC OPERATIONS (Eighth Air Force): The 482d Bombardment
Group
(Pathfinder), a Pathfinder (PFF) group fitted with British Oboe
and H2S and
US H2X blind-bombing equipment, becomes operational.
VIII Air Support Command Mission 38: 36 B-26's are dispatched to
an
ammunition dump at Foret d'Eperlecques near Saint-Omer, France;
33 hit the
target at 1859 hours; 14 aircraft are damaged; casualties are 3
WIA.
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