The Mighty Eighth Air Force
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5 November 1944
SUNDAY, 5 NOVEMBER 1944

EUROPEAN THEATER OF OPERATIONS (ETO)

AIRBORNE OPERATIONS (IX Troop Carrier Command): In France, HQ 442d Troop
Carrier Group moves from Bonnetable to St-Andre-de-L'Eure; the 91st Troop
Carrier Squadron, 439th Troop Carrier Group, moves from Lonray to
Chateaudun with C-47s; the 98th Troop Carrier Squadron, 440th Troop Carrier
Group, moves from Le Mans to Orleans with C-47s; the 303d Troop Carrier
Squadron, 442d Troop Carrier Group, moves from Peray to St-Andre-de-L'Eure
with C-47s.

STRATEGIC OPERATIONS (Eighth Air Force): 2 missions are flown.
Mission 702: 1,272 bombers and 666 fighters in 3 forces attack marshalling
yards in W Germany; H2X radar is used by all forces; 12 bombers and 6
fighters are lost.
1. 452 B-17s are dispatched to the marshalling yard at Frankfurt (396);
36 hit the marshalling yard at Hanau and 4 hit other targets; 1 B-17s is
lost, 2 damaged beyond repair and 126 damaged; 1 airman is KIA, 3 WIA and
MIA. Escort is provided by 206 P-47s and P-51s; 2 P-51s are lost (pilots
MIA)
2. 454 B-17s are dispatched to hit the marshalling yard (219) and
industrial area (177) at Ludwigshafen; targets of opportunity are the
marshalling yard at Kaiserslautern (33) and other (4); 11 B-17s are lost
and 298 damaged; 1 airman is KIA, 5 WIA and 103 MIA. Escort is provided by
192 P-47s and P-51s; 1 P-51 is lost (pilot MIA).
3. 333 of 366 B-24s hit the secondary target, the Karlsruhe marshalling
yard; 12 others hit Landau; 3 B-24s are damaged beyond repair and 28
damaged; 6 airmen are KIA and 8 WIA. Escort is provided by 228 P-47s and
P-51s; 2 P-47s and 1 P-51 are lost (pilots are MIA).
Mission 703: 3 B-17s and 7 B-24s drop leaflets in France, the Netherlands
and Germany during the night without loss.

TACTICAL OPERATIONS (Ninth Air Force): 160 B-26s and A-20s strike
ammunition, ordnance, and supply depots at Hamburg, Germany; fighters escort
the bombers, fly armed reconnaissance, attack railroads and bridges, and
cover ground forces of the V and XIX Corps; the IX Tactical Air Command aids
the US 28th Infantry Division in withstanding a counterattack near
Kommerscheidt, Germany. HQ 362d Fighter Group moves from Prosnes to
Rouvres, France. The 33d Photographic Reconnaissance Squadron, 363d
Tactical Reconnaissance Group, moves from Gosselies to Le Culot, Belgium
with F-5s.