The Mighty Eighth Air Force
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29 October 1944
SUNDAY, 29 OCTOBER 1944

EUROPEAN THEATER OF OPERATIONS (ETO)

TACTICAL OPERATIONS (Ninth Air Force): About 170 B-26s and A-20s bomb rail
bridges at Mayen, Konz-Karthaus, and Euskirchen, Germany and Ellern and
Moerdijke, the Netherlands; fighters fly escort to bombers, sweeps, defensive
patrols, armed reconnaissance over wide areas of E France, the Netherlands,
and Germany, bomb rail targets and bridges, and fly cover for the US XIX
Corps in Belgium. In Belgium, HQ 363d Tactical Reconnaissance Group and the
160th Tactical Reconnaissance Squadron move from Luxembourg, Luxembourg to Le
Culot with F-6s.