Eighth Air Force. Almost 200 United States Army Air Force
(USAAF) B-26 Marauder medium bombers bomb airfields of Woensdrecht,
Haamstede, Schiphol, Beauvais and Tille. No aircraft are lost.
Twelfth Air Force. XII Bomber Command B-26 Marauder medium
bombers, B-25 Mitchell medium bombers, and P-38 Lightning
fighters bomb railroad, highway, and pontoon bridges, overpass,
and road junction at Capua, Castel Volturno, Piana, Arce,
Mignano, and Isernia. P-38 Lightning fighters also hit shipping
between Corsica and Italy. XII Bomber Command fighter-bombers
hit motor transport in battle area as United States Fifth
Army troops take Benevento.
Fourteenth Air Force. 7 United States Army Air Force (USAAF)
P-40 fighters damage a 250 ft vessel on the Yangtze River
near Chiuchiang. 4 P-38 Lightning fighters bomb Chiuchiang
docks. 6 B-24 Liberator heavy bombers damage a 100 ft coastal
freighter off Tonkon Point.
Fifth Air Force. United States Army Air Force (USAAF) B-25
Mitchell medium bombers continue to hit barges along West
coast of New Britain.
Thirteenth Air Force. United States Army Air Force (USAAF)
P-39 fighters strafe several barges West of Choiseul.
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The Second Great War.
Edited by Sir John Hamilton
The War Illustrated.
Edited by Sir John Hamilton
2194 Days Of War.
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