The Mighty Eighth Air Force
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24 October 1944
TUESDAY, 24 OCTOBER 1944

EUROPEAN THEATER OF OPERATIONS (ETO)

STRATEGIC OPERATIONS (Eighth Air Force): By this date, all Pathfinder
aircraft of the 482d Bombardment Group (Pathfinder), engaged in H2X and other
radar training at RAF Alconbury, have been dispersed to bombardment groups
within the bombardment division, which set up their own H2X training.
In Germany, 415 P-47s and P-51s are dispatched to attack aircraft and
ground targets in the Hannover-Kassel area; 73 bomb flak positions at Elburg,
a factory near Nienburg, and miscellaneous ground targets; bad weather causes
other fighter-bombers to jettison bombs in the English Channel and Zuider
Zee; the fighter-bombers strafe transportation and other ground targets with
good results.

TACTICAL OPERATIONS (Ninth Air Force): In France, bad weather cancels all
operations except fighter patrols by the IX and XXIX Tactical Air Commands
over W Germany; the fighters attack rail targets. In Belgium, the 153d
Liaison Squadron, IX Tactical Air Command (attached to First Army), moves
from Verviers to Spa with L-5s; the 410th and 411th Fighter Squadrons, 373d
Fighter Group, moves from Reims, France to Le Culot with P-47s.

US STRATEGIC AIR FORCES IN EUROPE (USSTAF): The 173d Liaison Squadron,
USSTAF, is activated at Orly Airport, Paris with L-4s and UC-78s.