MONDAY, 28 AUGUST 1944

EUROPEAN THEATER OF OPERATIONS (ETO)

STRATEGIC OPERATIONS (Eighth Air Force): Weather prevents heavy bomber
operations; 835 fighters are dispatched on fighter-bomber and strafing
attacks on rail targets in the Netherlands, Belgium, France and Germany: 20
fighters are lost:
1. 174 of 260 P-38s, P-47s and P-51s attack transportation targets on the
German/French border; they claim 12-1-0 aircraft in the air and 3-0-4 on the
ground; 1 P-38 is lost, 3 damaged beyond repair and 1 P-38 and 1 P-47
damaged; 1 pilot is MIA.
2. 143 of 195 P-38s and P-47s hit transportation targets in France, Belgium
and the Netherlands; they claim 4-0-0 aircraft in the air and 3-0-2 on the
ground; 3 P-47s are lost (pilots MIA) and 2 damaged.
3. An unknown number of 380 P-51s strafe transportation targets on the
French/German border; they claim 3-0-0 aircraft in the air and 5-0-2 on the
ground; 16 P-51s are lost and 12 damaged; 15 pilots are MIA.
Mission 588: 6 of 6 B-17s drop leaflets in France and the Netherlands
during the night.

TACTICAL OPERATIONS (Ninth Air Force): In France, B-26s and A-20s escorted
by fighters bomb fuel dumps at Doullens, Barisis-aux-Bois, an ammunition dump
at Querrieu, an ammunition and fuel dump at Compiegne/Foret de Laigue, and
an alcohol distillery and fuel storage depot at Hamm; fighters escort about
400 C-47s on supply and evacuation runs, attack airfields at Bourges and
Peronne, support ground forces, and fly armed reconnaissance from Amiens to E
of Dijon; the 155th Photographic Reconnaissance Squadron, 10th Photographic
Group (Reconnaissance), moves from Rennes to Chateaudun with A-20s and F-3s;
the 422d Night Fighter Squadron, IX Air Defense Command, moves from Maupertus
to Chateaudun with P-61s; the 507th Fighter Squadron, 404th Fighter Group,
moves from Chapelle to Bretigny with P-47s; and the 514th Fighter Squadron,
406th Fighter Group, moves from Cretteville to St Leonard with P-47s.