Eighth Air Force. 115 United States Army Air Force (USAAF)
heavy bombers hit port area at Bremen. 25 heavy bombers bomb
targets in Kiel Flensburg area. Bad weather causes over 100
aborts. 47 P-38 Lightning fighters escort the heavy bombers
all the way to target (the longest escort mission by Eighth
Air Force fighters to date) but are mauled badly by overwhelming
number of fighters. 7 P-38 Lightning fighters fail to return
to base.
Twelfth Air Force. Northwest African Tactical Bomber Force
(NATBF) light bombers hit Palena and Atina and later bomb
Civitavecchia harbour and road West of Terracina. XII A Support
Command fighter-bombers, along with Desert Air Force (DAF)
aeroplanes, bomb Giulianova harbour and shipping, roads leading
to battle zone, and landing grounds of Aquino, Frosinone,
and Marcigliana. Fighters hit train and trucks in Pescara
Rieti area.
Fifteenth Air Force. Weather limits operations to air sea
rescue patrols, which are hampered by overcast.
Tenth Air Force. A single United States Army Air Force (USAAF)
B-24 Liberator heavy bomber mines Rangoon River during 13-
14
November 1943.
Fifth Air Force. Nearly 120 United States Army Air Force (USAAF)
B-24 Liberator heavy bombers and B-25 Mitchell medium bombers
pound Alexishafen, and P-40 fighters strafe the area. Other
B-24 Liberator heavy bombers hit Gasmata, Kaukenau, and Timoeka.
B-25 Mitchell medium bombers and Royal Australian Air Force
(RAAF) Beaufighters claim sinking of small freighter off Tanimbar
Island.
Thirteenth Air Force. 17 United States Army Air Force (USAAF)
B-24 Liberator heavy bombers pound antiaircraft positions,
dispersal areas, and runway at Bonis airfield. 6 B-25 Mitchell
medium bombers carry out low-level raid on Buka airfield.
Night fighters harass Shortland Island and Kahili and Bonis
airfields, claiming 4 grounded aeroplanes destroyed at the
latter.
Seventh Air Force. Air attack for GALVANIC (assault on the
Gilbert Islands begins. 18 B-24 Liberator heavy bombers from
Funafuti bomb Tarawa. 1 heavy bomber is lost.
Henschel Hs
293
was used against the Royal Navy's Escort destroyer HMS Dulverton
which was severely damaged off Kos, Dodecanese.
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November
Articles:
The Second Great War.
Edited by Sir John Hamilton
The War Illustrated.
Edited by Sir John Hamilton
2194 Days Of War.
ISBN-10: 086136614X
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