The Mighty Eighth Air Force
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15 July 1944
SATURDAY, 15 JULY 1944

EUROPEAN THEATER OF OPERATIONS (ETO)

STRATEGIC OPERATIONS (Eighth Air Force): Mission 474: 169 P-38s and P-47s
make fighter-bomber attacks on enemy transport SE of Paris; 2 P-38s and 1
P-47s are lost; 1 P-38 is damaged beyond repair and 10 P-38s and 2 P-47s
are damaged; 4 pilots are MIA.
Mission 475: 6 of 6 B-17s drop leaflets in France during the night.
27 B-24s fly CARPETBAGGER missions to France during the night.

TACTICAL OPERATIONS (Ninth Air Force): In France, weather cancels most
operations but 4 B-26s (92 others abort) hit the L'Aigle rail bridge during
the afternoon; 3 fighter-bombers fly an uneventful sweep; fighters of the IX
Tactical Air Command fly area cover and bomb infantry, artillery, a
marshalling yard, railroad, and a bridge in the Saint-Lo, Argentan, and
Falaise areas.