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The Mighty Eighth - Saturday, 4 September 1943

 

SATURDAY, 4 SEPTEMBER 1943

EUROPEAN THEATER OF OPERATIONS (Eighth Air Force): VIII Air Support Command
Mission 47: 144 B-26's are dispatched to 4 marshalling yards in France (36
B-26's to each target); 33 hit Courtrai marshalling yard at 1756 hours; 33
hit the Lille/Deliverance marshalling yard at 1756 hours; 34 hit the
Hazebrouck marshalling yard at 1831 hours; and 23 hit the St Pol
marshalling yard at 1833 hours; 22 B-26's are damaged; casualties are 3
WIA.










 

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