27 April 1945

FRIDAY, 27 APRIL 1945

EUROPEAN THEATER OF OPERATIONS (ETO)

STRATEGIC OPERATIONS (Eighth Air Force): By this date the flow of P-51,
B-17, and B-24 replacement aircraft has stopped and the authorization of 68
planes per bomb group and 96 per fighter group is reduced to the original 48
and 75, respectively.

TACTICAL OPERATIONS (Ninth Air Force): Weather grounds the 9th Bombardment
Division. In Germany, fighters fly sweeps, airfield cover, and armed
reconnaissance, and attack airfields; other fighters fly air cover for the US
XII Corps as the 11th Armored Division reaches the Czech border N of
Bischofsreuth and other elements move further into Austria toward Linz, and
support the XX Corps as it receives the surrender of Regensburg and expands
its Danube River bridgehead; the 72d Liaison Squadron, Ninth AF (attached to
Sixth Army Group), moves from Kitzingen to Gmund with L-5s.