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The Mighty Eighth  Friday, 26 May 1944

 

FRIDAY, 26 MAY 1944

EUROPEAN THEATER OF OPERATIONS (ETO)

STRATEGIC OPERATIONS (Eighth Air Force): Mission 372: 4 of 4 B-17s drop
leaflets in The Netherlands without loss.
P-38s participate in 2 sweep over The Netherlands for familiarization
purposes without loss; 1 sweep consists of 30 aircraft, the second consists
of 28 aircraft.

TACTICAL OPERATIONS (Ninth Air Force): In France, nearly 400 B-26s and
A-20s attack airfields at Beaumont-sur-Oise and Chartres and bridges at
Vernon and Poissy; 108 P-47 and P-51 fighter-bombers hit a bridge at Oissel
and airfields at Creil, Cormeilles-en-Vesin and Evreux/Fauville; P-47s and
P-38s dive-bomb targets in NW Europe.
425th Night Fighter Squadron, Ninth Air Force, arrives at Chormy Down,
England from the US with P-61s; first mission is in Jul 44.





 

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