Twelfth Air Force. XII Bomber Command B-26 Marauder medium
bombers bomb railroad and road bridges ar Marsicano and Montalto
di Castro. P-38 Lightning fighters hit airfields at Tirana.
B-25 Mitchell medium bombers hit bridge in Albania. XII A
Support Command, Desert Air Force (DAF), and Northwest African
Tactical Bomber Force (NATBF) attack troop concentrations
in Spinete area, and town areas, vehicles, trains, railroads,
highways, bridges, and gun positions at or near Gaeta, Pescara,
Vasto, Isolella, Sulrnona, Isernia, Vairano, and Ancona.
Tenth Air Force. United States Army Air Force (USAAF) medium
bombers bomb Meza railroad bridge, which is still being repaired
following damaging raid of
10
October 1943. Damage is done to approaches.
Fourteenth Air Force. 6 United States Army Air Force (USAAF)
B-24 Liberator heavy bombers bomb Htawgaw.
Fifth Air Force. 40 United States Army Air Force (USAAF) B-24
Liberator heavy bombers escorted by P-38 Lightning fighters,
bomb Rapopo airstrip, destroying about 20 aeroplanes on the
ground. 20 enemy interceptors are claimed shot down. 9 B-25
Mitchell medium bombers hit Bogadjim area.
Thirteenth Air Force. 11 United States Army Air Force (USAAF)
B-24 Liberator heavy bombers and 16 P-38 Lightning fighters
hit Kahili airfield. 36 P-40 fighters and P-39 fighters join
60 Navy dive bombers and fighters in strike on Kara airfield.
Both Kahili and Kara are attacked again later in the day,
the former by 6 B-24 Liberator heavy bombers and 16 Navy fighters
and the latter by 35 Army Air Force fighters and 42 Navy dive
bombers. 6 B-24 Liberator heavy bombers bomb Kakasa.
Seventh Air Force. United States Army Air Force (USAAF) Fighters
shoot down a Japanese flying boat 70 miles South of Baker
Island.
M326
Minesweeper
Commissioned 23 October 1943
T34
Torpedo boat
Launched 23 October 1943
Go To: 24th
October
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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