Mission 39
Mission Summaries > March 1944
SATURDAY, 18 MARCH 1944
EUROPEAN THEATER OF OPERATIONS (ETO)
STRATEGIC OPERATIONS (Eighth Air Force):
Mission 264:
Aircraft
plants and airfields in Germany are targeted; enemy fighters attack in force
and AA fire is heavy; the bombers claim 45-10-17 Luftwaffe aircraft; 43 bombers
and 13 fighters are lost.
284
of 290 B-17s dispatched bomb the aviation industry at Oberpfaffenhofen, air
depots at Lechfeld and Landsberg, Memmingen Airfield and targets of
opportunity; 8 B-17s are lost and 102 damaged; casualties are 1 KIA, 9 WIA and
80 MIA.
196
of 221 B-17s dispatched bomb Munich, the aviation industry at Oberpfaffenhofen,
Lechfeld air depot and targets of opportunity; 7 B-17s are lost, 1 damaged
beyond repair and 80 damaged; casualties are 3 KIA, 4 WIA and 70 MIA.
227 B-24s are
dispatched to aviation industry targets at Friedrichshafen/Lowenthal (77 bomb),
Friedrichshafen/Manzell (38 bomb) and
Friedrichshafen/Zeppelin (52 bomb), the city of Friedrichshafen (22 bomb) and 9 hit targets of opportunity; 28
B-24s are lost, 3 damaged beyond repair and 60 damaged; casualties are 6 KIA, 9
WIA and 286 MIA.
Escort
is provided by 113 P-38s, 598 Eighth and Ninth Air Force P-47s and 214 Eighth
and Ninth Air Force P-51s. Details are: P-38s claim 11-2-1 Luftwaffe
aircraft; 5 are lost and 1 damaged; 4 pilots are MIA; P-47s claim 2-1-3
Luftwaffe aircraft; 2 are lost, 1 damaged beyond repair and 6 damaged; 2 pilots
are MIA; and P-51s claim 26-2-6 Luftwaffe aircraft; 6 are lost, 2 damaged
beyond repair and 3 damaged; 1 pilot is WIA and 6 MIA. The fighters also
claim 3-2-2 Luftwaffe aircraft on the ground.
Mission 265:
6 of
6 B-17s drop 300 bundles of leaflets on Cambrai, Lille, Paris, Amiens, Rouen
and Caen, France at 2115-2139 hours without loss.
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