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WEDNESDAY, 10 NOVEMBER 1943
EUROPEAN THEATER OF OPERATIONS
STRATEGIC OPERATIONS (Eighth Air Force): VIII Bomber Command
Mission 126: 5
B-17's drop 1 million leaflets over Paris, Rennes, Le Mans and
Rouen, France
at 2020-2051 hours.
TACTICAL OPERATIONS (Ninth Air Force): Around 60 B-26's bomb
Chievres
airfield, Belgium. In France, bad weather causes the force sent to
bomb
Lille/Vendeville airfield to abandon their mission, though a few
bombers
manage to bomb other targets in the area; a force of 72 B-26's
dispatched to
attack Montdidier airfield suffers numerous aborts due to weather; 6
bombers
manage to bomb the airfield believed to be the secondary target of
Amiens/Glisy.
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