27 Feburary 1944

SUNDAY, 27 FEBRUARY 1944

EUROPEAN THEATER OF OPERATIONS (ETO)

TACTICAL OPERATIONS (Ninth Air Force): Major General Elwood R Quesada
(reappointed Commanding General IX Fighter Command on 21 Feb) receives
authority to revive the IX Fighter Command (existing only on paper since
creation of the IX Air Support Command) on a temporary basis as an
operational HQ to function as a Combined Control Center with RAF 11 Group at
Uxbridge, England, where Fighter Command will prepare operations orders for
Ninth Air Force fighter and fighter-bomber groups. Quesada retains command of
the IX Air Support Command.