Twelfth Air Force. XII Bomber Command B-17 Flying Fortress
heavy bombers and B-26 Marauder medium bombers bomb airfields
at Ciampino and Pratica di Mare. B-25 Mitchell medium bombers
attack small craft and barges off mouth of Tiber River. P-38
Lightning fighters fly 27 dive-bombing missions against roads,
junctions, railways, bridges, and targets in battle area and
towns of Vallo della Lucania, Acerno, Nocera, Avellino, Gragnano,
Serre, Lioni, Fisciano, Monteforte Irpino, Cava de' Tirreni
and Auletta. XII A Support Command, Northwest African Tactical
Bomber Force (NATBF), and other elements of Northwest African
Tactical Air Force (NATAF) fly sweeps over battle area, patrol
beaches, escort naval vessels, and bomb rail and road junctions,
motor transport, marshalling yard, town areas, and various
targets in Pompeii, Torre Annunziata, Salerno, Campagna, Sarno,
Solofra, Montella, and Acerno areas. United States Fifth Army
forces advancing on Altavilla are pinned down. However enemy
retires to the North, completing withdrawal from battle line
during night. British Eighth Army begins general advance North
toward Potenza and Auletta.
Ninth Air Force. United States Army Air Force (USAAF) B-24
Liberator heavy bombers attack marshalling yard, road junction,
and rail junction at Pescara on East coast of Italy. The British
Royal Air Force (RAF) heavy bombers again hit Potenza.
Fifth Air Force. United States Army Air Force (USAAF) B-25
Mitchell medium bombers carry out coastal sweep against barges
and villages from Reiss Point to Langemak Bay.
Ruhrstahl
X-1 (Fritz X)
was used against the American light cruiser Philadelphia and
she was lightly damaged from near misses.
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2194 Days Of War.
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