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12 December 1942

SATURDAY, 12 DECEMBER 1942

EUROPEAN THEATER OF OPERATIONS (Eighth Air Force)
During Mission Number 25, 90 bombers are dispatched to bomb two targets
in France; 78 aircraft are dispatched to the Rouen-Sotteville Marshalling
Yard; 17 attack the target with the loss of two aircraft. A diversion is
flown against the Abbeville/Drucat Airfield by 12 aircraft but the target
is overcast and the aircraft return without attacking.