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WEDNESDAY, 6 SEPTEMBER 1944
EUROPEAN THEATER OF OPERATIONS (ETO)
STRATEGIC OPERATIONS (Eighth Air Force):
Mission 607: 49 P-38s and 165
P-47s strafe rail and highway traffic in the Rotterdam, the
Netherlands, and
the Aachen and Koblenz, Germany areas; 1 P-38 and 3 P-47s are lost
to flak
(pilots are MIA) and 5 P-38s and 7 P-47s are damaged.
70 B-24s fly TRUCKIN' missions (carrying cargo to airfields in
France).
TACTICAL OPERATIONS (Ninth Air Force): In France, B-26s and A-20s
hit Brest
area strongpoints, a coastal battery at Pointe du Grand Gouin,
defenses at
Saint-Pierre-Quilbignon, and a Brest area bridge; fighters hit Brest
area gun
positions and ammunition dump and fly cover for several armored and
infantry
divisions; HQ 370th Fighter Group and the 401st, 402d and 485th
Fighter
Squadrons move from La Vielle to Lonray with P-38s; HQ 474th Fighter
Group
moves from St Marceau to Peronne; and the 23d Fighter Squadron, 36th
Fighter
Group, moves from Brucheville to Le Mans with P-47s.
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