The Mighty Eighth Air Force
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3 December 1944
SUNDAY, 3 DECEMBER 1944

EUROPEAN THEATER OF OPERATIONS (ETO)

TACTICAL OPERATIONS (Ninth Air Force): Weather cancels bomber operations.
In Germany, fighters fly defensive patrols and armed reconnaissance, hitting
rails and bridges and dive-bomb targets in W Germany including the
marshalling yard at Grevenbroich; the 104th Infantry Division is supported as
it extends the Inde River, Germany bridgehead beyond Lucherberg, Germany, the
US 1st Infantry Division as it seizes Luchem, the US 8th Infantry Division in
the Brandenberger Forest-Tiefenbach Creek area, and units of the US XII Corps
at Sarre-Union, France as it checks a counterattack. The 353d Fighter
Squadron, 354th Fighter Group, moves from Orconte to Rosieres-en-Haye,
France with P-47s.