The Mighty Eighth Air Force
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28 November 1944
TUESDAY, 28 NOVEMBER 1944

EUROPEAN THEATER OF OPERATIONS (ETO)

STRATEGIC OPERATIONS (Eighth Air Force): Mission 728: 6 B-17s and 6 B-24s
drop leaflets on the Netherlands and Germany during the night. The 845th
Bombardment Squadron (Heavy), 489th Bombardment Group (Heavy), departs
Halesworth, England for the US; the squadron will transition to B-29s in
1945.

TACTICAL OPERATIONS (Ninth Air Force): In Germany, the 9th Bombardment
Division hits the defended villages of Birgel and Merken, a rail bridge at
Sinzig, and a Billiger Forest ammunition dump; fighters fly escort, night
intruder missions, and armed reconnaissance in the Kall-Trier area, and
support the US 1st, 8th, and 104th Infantry Divisions as they take
Langerwehe, Jungersdorf, Hurtgen, and the bridge at Inden.