The Mighty Eighth Air Force
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20 November 1944
MONDAY, 20 NOVEMBER 1944

EUROPEAN THEATER OF OPERATIONS (ETO)

STRATEGIC OPERATIONS (Eighth Air Force): 2 missions are flown.
Mission 718: 172 B-17s are sent to hit the Schowen oil plant at
Gelsenkirchen (61); 93 hit the secondary, the marshalling yard at Munster; 25
B-17s are damaged. Escort is 214 P-47s and P-51s; no losses.
Other flights:
12 of 12 B-17s fly a screening mission.
310 P-47s and P-51s make fighter-bomber strikes agains miscellaneous
targets in W Germany; 1 P-47 and 7 P-51s are lost (pilots MIA) and 1 P-51 is
damaged beyond repair.
12 of 12 P-51s fly a scouting mission.
Mission 719: 6 B-17s and 7 B-24s drop leaflets on the Netherlands, France
and Germany during the night.

TACTICAL OPERATIONS

[First Tactical Air Force (Provisional)]: HQ 17th Bombardment Group
(Medium) and the 34th and 37th Bombardment Squadrons Medium) move from
Corsica to Dijon, France with B-26s.

(Ninth Air Force): Bad weather prevents bomber operations; fighters fly
sweeps and night patrols over broad areas of W Germany and strafe and bomb
numerous railroads, trains, buildings and various military targets. In
France, the 365th, 366th and 367th Fighter Squadrons, 358th Fighter Group,
move from Mourmelon to Toul with P-47s. In Belgium, the 389th Fighter
Squadron, 366th Fighter Group, moves from Couvron, France to Asch with P-47s.