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MONDAY, 26 JUNE 1944
EUROPEAN THEATER OF OPERATIONS (ETO)
STRATEGIC OPERATIONS (Eighth Air Force): 72 B-17s leave Poltava and
Mirgorod, USSR, rendezvous with 55 P-51s from Piryatin, bomb the oil
refinery
and marshalling yard at Drohobycz, Poland (1 returns to the USSR
because of
mechanical trouble), and then proceed to Italy; Fifteenth Air Force
P-51s
meet the formation 1 hour after the attack and escort the B-17s to
Foggia; it
is planned to return the B-17s to bases in the UK on 27 Jun but bad
weather
delays this move until 5 Jul.
TACTICAL OPERATIONS (Ninth Air Force): In France, weather cancels
all
operations save a few fighter sorties which result in claims against
a few
military vehicles and 3 aircraft as US ground forces capture
Cherbourg; 3 US
fighters are lost.
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