The Mighty Eighth Air Force
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22 November 1944
WEDNESDAY, 22 NOVEMBER 1944

EUROPEAN THEATER OF OPERATIONS (ETO)

STRATEGIC OPERATIONS (Eighth Air Force): The 2d and 4th Combat Bombardment
Wings (Heavy) of the 3d Bombardment Division are combined to form the
Administrative Bombardment Wing (Provisional); this type of unit is expected
to be highly suitable for conditions in the Pacific theater where bomb
division HQ might be located far from its wing HQ; under this new plan, the
administrative wing can absorb many functions of the division HQ; this
experiment will be judged acceptable during Feb 45.

TACTICAL OPERATIONS

First Tactical Air Force (Provisional): HQ 63d Fighter Wing moves from
San Pietro Italy to Vittel, France; the 432d Bombardment Squadron (Medium),
17th Bombardment Group (Medium), moves from Poretta, Corsica to Dijon,
France with B-26s.

Ninth Air Force: Bomber operations are cancelled due to bad weather;
fighter operations are limited. 16 aircraft from the IX and XIX Tactical Air
Commands patrol over the V and VII Corps area (SE of Aachen), the Bonn-
Cologne area, and fly reconnaissance around Saarbrucken, Homburg/Saar,
Neukirchen and Kaiserslautern, Germany, and Sarrebourg, France. In France,
the 377th Fighter Squadron, 362d Fighter Group, moves from Prosnes to
Rouvres, France with P-47s.