The Mighty Eighth Air Force
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9 April 1944
SUNDAY, 9 APRIL 1944

EUROPEAN THEATER OF OPERATIONS (ETO)

STRATEGIC OPERATIONS (Eighth Air Force): Mission 293: 542 bombers and 719
fighters are dispatched to aircraft factories and airfields in Germany and
Poland; the bombers claim 45-8-14 Luftwaffe aircraft; 32 bombers and 10
fighters are lost; 10 bombers are damaged beyond repair. Details are:
1. 145 B-17s are dispatched to aviation industry at Rahmel, Poland and
Marienburg, Germany; 96 hit Marienburg, 41 hit Rahmel and 3 hit targets of
opportunity; 6 B-17s are lost and 44 damaged; casualties are 8 KIA, 9 WIA and
60 MIA.
2. 151 B-17s are dispatched to hit the Focke-Wulf plant at Poznan, Poland
and the Heinkel plant at Warnemunde, Germany; 85 hit Warnemunde, 33 hit
Poznan and 18 hit Marienehe Airfield; 12 B-17s are lost and 93 damaged;
casualties are 6 WIA and 120 MIA.
3. 246 B-24s are dispatched to hit an assembly plant at Tutow, Germany; 106
hit the primary, 14 hit Parchim, Germany and 6 hit targets of opportunity; 14
B-24s are lost and 30 damaged; casualties are 17 KIA, 6 WIA and 140 MIA.
Escort is provided by 119 P-38s, 387 Eighth and Ninth Air Force P-47s and
213 Eighth and Ninth Air Force P-51s; the fighters claim 20-1-6 Luftwaffe
aircraft in the air and 19-0-8 on the ground; no fighter support is available
over the targets because of bad weather or distance: 2 P-38s are lost, 2
damaged beyond repair and 9 damaged, casualties are 1 KIA and 2 MIA; 4 P-47s
are lost, 1 is damaged beyond repair and 2 damaged, casualties are 2 KIA, 2
WIA and 3 MIA; 4 P-51s are lost and 1 damaged beyond repair, 1 pilot is MIA.
Mission 294: 5 of 5 B-17s drop 2.752 million leaflets on Rouen, Paris,
Amiens and Caen, France at 2224-2338 hours without loss.
23 B-24s are dispatched on CARPETBAGGER operations.

TACTICAL OPERATIONS (Ninth Air Force): 14th Liaison Squadron, US Strategic
Air Forces in Europe (attached to US Third Army), arrives at Alderley Edge,
England from the US with L-5s; first mission is in Jul.