23 April 1945

MONDAY, 23 APRIL 1945

EUROPEAN THEATER OF OPERATIONS (ETO)

STRATEGIC OPERATIONS (Eighth Air Force): Mission 966: During the night of
23/24 Apr, 1 B-17 and 12 B-24s drop leaflets in France, the Netherlands and
Germany and 14 B-24s fly CARPETBAGGER missions to Denmark.

TACTICAL OPERATIONS
First Tactical Air Force (Provisional): HQ 71st Fighter Wing moves from
Vittel, France to Heidelberg, Germany.
Ninth Air Force: Weather cancels combat operations by the 9th Bombardment
Division. In Germany, fighters patrol the Magdeburg area and the US Third
Army front (E of the Bayreuth-Nurnberg area), fly armed reconnaissance over E
Germany and W Czechoslovakia, and operate in conjunction with the XII Corps
as it presses forward N of Regensburg between the Danube River and Czech
Border. P-47 unit moves in Germany: 411th and 412th Fighter Squadrons, 373d
Fighter Group, from Venlo, the Netherlands to Lippstadt; 509th, 510th and
511th Fighter Squadrons, 405th Fighter Group, from Ophoven, Belgium to
Kitzingen.