The Mighty Eighth - Saturday, 10 July 1943

SATURDAY, 10 JULY 1943

EUROPEAN THEATER OF OPERATIONS (Eighth Air Force)
VII Bomber Command Mission Number 72: 121 B-17's and 5 YB-40's are
dispatched to the Caen/Carpiquet Airfield and 64 B-17's are dispatched to
the Abbevile/Drucat Airfield, both in France; 34 hit Caen at 0832 hours
while 36 hit Abbeville at 0729-0735 hours; they claim 17-7-6 Luftwaffe
aircraft; 1 B-17 is lost while 33 others are damaged; casualties are 1 WIA
and 10 MIA. In a second raid, 101 B-17's are dispatched against Le Bourget
Airfield, Paris but the mission is abandoned due to cloud cover.