# USAAF Chronology:

    COMBAT CHRONOLOGY OF THE US ARMY AIR FORCES
    MAY 1944
    FTP SITES
      1. ftp.rutgers.edu in directory pub/wwii/usaf
      2. byrd.mu.wvnet.edu (129.71.32.152) in pub/history/military/airforce/
         wwii_chronology

    AIRCRAFT MENTIONED IN THIS REPORT:
      A-20, Douglas Havoc
      A-36, North American Apache
      B-17, Boeing Flying Fortress
      B-24, Consolidated Liberator
      B-25, North American Mitchell
      B-26, Martin Marauder
      B-29, Boeing Superfortress
      Beaufighter, Bristol
      C-47, Douglas Skytrain
      UC-64, Noorduyn Norseman
      CG-4, Waco Haig (Hadrian)
      F-3, Douglas Havoc
      F-5, Lockheed Lightning
      F-6, North American Mustang
      L-1, Stinson Vigilant
      L-5, Stinson Sentinel
      P-38, Lockheed Lightning
      P-39, Bell Airacobra
      P-40, Curtiss
      P-47, Republic Thunderbolt
      P-51, North American Mustang
      P-61, Northrop Black Widow
      P-70, Douglas
      SBD, Douglas Dauntless
      TBF, Grumman Avenger
      Vengeance, Vultee

    MONDAY, 1 MAY 1944

    AMERICAN THEATER OF OPERATIONS

      ALASKA (Eleventh Air Force): A single weather sortie is flown.

    CHINA-BURMA-INDIA (CBI) THEATER OF OPERATIONS

      BURMA-INDIA (Tenth Air Force): In Burma, 18 P-38s and Royal Air Force (RAF)
    Vengeances hit troop positions and supply dumps; 7 P-40s over the Mogaung
    Valley hit Kamaing and attack positions N of Nanyaseik; 30+ B-24s bomb
    Maymyo, Mandalay marshalling yard, and oil facilities at Yenangyaung.
      Moves in India: 20th Tactical Reconnaissance Squadron, Tenth Air Force
    attached to 5320th Air Defense Wing (Provisional), based at Kisselbari with
    P-40s, sends a detachment to Dinjan; 89th Fighter Squadron, 80th Fighter
    Group, based at Nagaghuli with P-40s, sends a detachment to Mokelbaria during
    May.

      CHINA (Fourteenth Air Force): 92 P-40s hit targets over wide areas of S
    China, Burma and French Indochina; in Burma, the fighter-bombers knock out a
    bridge at Wan Lai-Kam and pound a motor pool at Wan Pa-Hsa; in China, they
    strafe the railroad station and airfield at Yuncheng; in French Indochina,
    they damage 3 bridges and hit numerous boxcars at Bac Le, Dinh Ca, and Dong
    Mo, bomb carbide mines at Loc Binh and strafe railroad yards at Dong Dang and
    Na Cham. In China, 7 B-25s and 8 P-40s bomb Tangyang Airfield and nearby
    cavalry post; 2 B-25s over Amoy claim a small freighter sunk; and 15 enemy
    aircraft bomb airstrips at Ankang and Hengyang.
      During May, 16th Fighter Squadron, 51st Fighter Group, based at
    Chengkung, China with P-40s, sends a detachment to Yunnani; the 26th Fighter
    Squadron, 51st Fighter Group, based at Kunming, China with P-40s, sends a
    detachment to Liangshan.

      STRATEGIC OPERATIONS (Twentieth Air Force): By this date all 4 B-29 fields
    in the Chengtu, China area are open to B-29 traffic.

    EUROPEAN THEATER OF OPERATIONS (ETO)

      STRATEGIC OPERATIONS (Eighth Air Force): Mission 332: Operation CROSSBOW
    (operations against German missile launching sites) targets are hit in
    France in the early morning; 531 bombers and 209 fighters are dispatched
    but weather causes many aborts and only 3 of 23 V-weapons sites targetted
    are bombed:
      1. Of 161 B-17s dispatched,m 18 hit Poix Airfield, 18 hit Roye/Amy
    Airfield and 15 hit Montdidier Airfield; 1 B-17 is damaged beyond repair
    and 20 damaged.
      2. 22 of 187 B-17s and 57 of 183 B-24s hit the Pas de Calais area; 1 B-17
    and 1 B-24 are damaged beyond repair; 19 B-17s and 15 B-24s are damaged; 5
    B-24 crewmen are KIA.
      Escort is provided by 119 P-47s and 90 P-51s without loss or claims.
      Mission 333: In the afternoon, 386 bombers and 558 fighters are
    dispatched to hit marshalling yards in France and Belgium; 3 bombers and 3
    fighters are lost:
      1. 110 B-17s are dispatched to Troyes (52 bomb) and Reims (57 bomb),
    France; 1 B-17 is lost and 52 damaged; 10 airmen are MIA.
      2. 125 B-17s are dispatched to Saarguemines (64 bomb) and Metz (42 bomb),
    France and Brussels, Belgium (13 bomb); 2 B-17s are lost, 1 damaged beyond
    repair and 43 damaged; 20 airmen are MIA.
      3. 151 B-24s are dispatched to Brussels (59 bomb) and Liege (40 bomb),
    Belgium; 21 B-24s are damaged; no losses or casualties.
      Escort is provided by 120 P-38s, 272 P-47s and 166 P-51s; The P-47s claim
    1-0-1 Luftwaffe aircraft and the P-51s claim 5-0-2; 2 P-38s and 1 P-51 are
    lost; 4 P-47s and 1 P-51 are damaged; 4 pilots are MIA.
      Mission 334: 5 of 5 B-17s drop 1.55 million leaflets on 25 towns in
    France and The Netherlands without loss.
      25 B-24s are dispatched on CARPETBAGGER operations without loss.
      HQ 489th Bombardment Group (Heavy) arrives at Halesworth, England from
    the US.

      TACTICAL OPERATIONS (Ninth Air Force): The last of the 11 bombardment
    groups (8 medium and 3 light) of the IX Bomber Command becomes operational.
      450 B-26s and A-20s attack numerous marshalling yards and industrial
    targets in France and Belgium.
      406th Fighter Squadron, 371st Fighter Group, ceases operating from Ibsley,
    England and returns to base at Bisterne with P-47s.

    MEDITERRANEAN THEATER OF OPERATIONS (MTO)

      TACTICAL OPERATIONS (Twelfth Air Force): In Italy, medium bombers attack
    bridges at Albinia Station, NW of Chiusi, in and near Grosseto, near Monte
    Molino, Calafuria and at Pontedera; also attacked are a viaduct at Monte
    Catellana and marshalling yards at Florence/Campo di Marte and Florence, with
    particularly good results at Florence; light bombers hit an ammunition dump
    at Fara in Sabina; P-40s and P-47s hit rail tracks in the Rome area, Priverno
    Station, guns N of Anzio, dumps at Frascati, stations at Colleferro and
    Frosinone, tracks at Orbetello and Orvieto, a bridge and tunnel N of Todi,
    a road in Canino, a dump and factory at Stimigliono, vessels E of Piombino,
    a factory E of Cecina, bridge approaches at Grosseto and Arezzo, a dump at
    Grosseto and a tunnel at Rignano sull Arno; and HQ 79th Fighter Group and
    86th and 87th Fighter Squadrons move from Capodichino to Pomigliano with
    P-47s.

    PACIFIC OCEAN AREA (POA, Seventh Air Force): Shore-based Air Force Forward
    Area (Task Force 59) is activated to control all USAAF, US Navy (USN), and US
    Marine Corps (USMC) shorebased aircraft in the C Pacific forward area; the
    command is headed by Major General Willis H Hale, former Commanding General
    of the Seventh Air Force.
      B-25s from Makin Island, Gilbert Islands bomb Jaluit Atoll, Marshall
    Islands.

    SOUTH PACIFIC AREA (SOPAC, Thirteenth Air Force): On New Britain Island,
    Bismarck Archipelago, 24 B-24s over the Borpop area attack coastal guns;
    40+ fighter-bombers and 30 USN dive bombers pound Vunakambi Plantation. 38
    P-39s, flying 18 different missions, hit a variety of targets on SW
    Bougainville Island, Solomon Islands, including missions at Tinputs,
    Koromira and Tsimba, Hongorai River crossing, Numa Numa bridge and huts at
    Aravia and Kunagaupau.

    SOUTHWEST PACIFIC AREA (SWPA, Fifth Air Force): In New Guinea, 180+ B-25s,
    A-20s, and fighters pound the Wewak and Hansa Bay areas throughout the day.
    Numerous coastline targets are hit, including airfields, vehicles,
    communications, villages, AA positions, bivouacs, supplies, barges and
    offshore islands; HQ 86th Fighter Wing arrives at Finschhafen from the US;
    and during May, HQ 310th Bombardment Wing (Medium) moves from Gusap to
    Hollandia. B-24s of the Thirteenth Air Task Force hit Woleai and Eauriprik
    Atolls, Caroline Islands.

    TUESDAY, 2 MAY 1944

    AMERICAN THEATER OF OPERATIONS

      CARIBBEAN (Sixth Air Force): 10th Bombardment Squadron (Medium), VI
    Bomber Command, begins a movement from France Field, Canal Zone to the US
    where it will be disbanded on 17 Jun 44.

    CHINA-BURMA-INDIA (CBI) THEATER OF OPERATIONS

      CHINA (Fourteenth Air Force): 3 B-24s claim 2 freighters sunk in the S end
    of Formosa Straits.

      EASTERN AIR COMMAND (EAC): Troop Carrier Command, until this date a major
    subordinate component of EAC, is placed under Third Tactical Air Force,
    another EAC component.

    EUROPEAN THEATER OF OPERATIONS (ETO)

      STRATEGIC OPERATIONS (Eighth Air Force): Mission 335: 50 of 50 B-24s bomb
    V-weapon sites in the Pas de Calais area of France without loss; escort is
    provided by 50 P-47s and 52 P-51s.

      TACTICAL OPERATIONS (Ninth Air Force): 250+ B-26s and A-20s bomb
    marshalling yards at Busigny, Valenciennes and Blanc-Misseron, France. 400+
    P-47s and P-51s dive-bomb airfields and marshalling yards in France and the
    Low Countries.

    MEDITERRANEAN THEATER OF OPERATIONS (MTO)

      STRATEGIC OPERATIONS (Fifteenth Air Force): 250+ bombers hit targets in
    Italy; B-17s hit the marshalling yard at Bolzano; B-24s, most with fighter
    escort, attack Castel Maggiore and a railroad bridge at Faenza; 300+ bombers
    are forced to abort because of weather.

      TACTICAL OPERATIONS (Twelfth Air Force): In Italy, attacks against rail
    lines and bridges in N Italy continue; medium bombers bomb an approach to a
    bridge in N Oriveto, bridges in S Ficulle and in Marsciano, and marshalling
    yards in Florence/Campo di Marte and W and NW Florence; light bombers hit
    an ammunition dump NE of Rome; P-40s and P-47s hit rail lines N of Rome,
    bridges SW of Rome, guns N of Anzio, a road at Montefiascone, a road bridge
    at Cecina, trucks and planes at Malignano landing ground and several other
    dumps, roads, and rail lines in N Italy.

    PACIFIC OCEAN AREA (POA, Seventh Air Force): B-24s, staging through Eniwetok
    Atoll, Marshall Islands from Kwajalein Atoll, Marshall Islands, bomb Truk
    Atoll, Caroline Islands, during the night. During the day B-25s based on
    Makin Island hit Jaluit and Wotje Atolls, Marshall Islands, using Majuro
    Atoll, Marshall Islands as a shuttle base to rearm between strikes. B-25s
    from Engebi Island, Eniwetok Atoll pound Ponape Island, Caroline Islands.

    SOUTH PACIFIC AREA (SOPAC, Thirteenth Air Force): On Bougainville Island,
    22 P-39s bomb a village N of Kieta, airstrip and buildings of Koromira and
    Rigu Missions and 8 P-40s also hit the Kieta area. On New Britain Island,
    fighter sweeps over the Rabaul area continue; fighter-bombers hit the
    Vunakambi Plantation supply area with incendiaries and B-25s pound the Talili
    area.

    SOUTHWEST PACIFIC AREA (SWPA, Fifth Air Force): In New Guinea, 140+ A-20s and
    fighter-bombers hit bridges, barges, gun positions, roads, personnel,
    supplies, huts and tent areas from Wewak to Hansa Bay throughout the day; 2
    B-25s bomb airfields at Wewak and Boram; 8 others hit Wakde Island oil
    stores, huts, AA positions, trucks, and other targets of opportunity; and
    the airfield on Biak Island is bombed by 2 B-24s.

    WEDNESDAY, 3 MAY 1944

    CHINA-BURMA-INDIA (CBI) THEATER OF OPERATIONS

      BURMA-INDIA (Tenth Air Force): In Burma, 12 B-25s hit Kohima and Kalewa; 28
    fighter-bombers pound ammunition dumps and other supplies at Mohnyin and N of
    Nanyaseik; 9 P-38s hit airfields in the Meiktila area; and 7 P-40s attack
    Lakatkawng and support ground forces in the area; 88th Fighter Squadron, 80th
    Fighter Group, moves from Mokelbari, India to Shingbwiyang with P-40s and
    during the month, a detachment begins operating from Myitkyina.

      CHINA (Fourteenth Air Force): In China, 7 Chinese-American Composite Wing
    (CACW) B-25s bomb the Mihsien town area and also hit numerous vehicles and
    troops NE of Mihsien, between Yochou and Hsuchang, at Chihsien and N of
    Yenling; the B-25s also strafe the town of Hsiangcheng; 4 B-25s and 8 P-40s
    pound storage area at Tangyang airfield; 10 CACW P-40s score 11 direct hits
    on a bridge over the Yellow River NW of Chenghsien, and destroy 15 trucks and
    many troops between Loyang and Luchou. In French Indochina, 10 other P-40s on
    armed reconnaissance sink 9 sampans near Cat Ba Island, knock out a bridge at
    Bac Le, damage another at Kep, and pound Na Cham railroad yards.

    EUROPEAN THEATER OF OPERATIONS (ETO)

      STRATEGIC OPERATIONS (Eighth Air Force): Mission 336: 47 of 51 B-24s bomb
    the V-weapon site at Wizernes, France; 33 are damaged; 3 airmen are WIA.
    Escort is provided by 48 P-47s and 53 P-51s without loss.
      Mission 337: 5 of 5 B-17s drop 960,000 leaflets on 26 towns in France,
    Belgium and The Netherlands; 1 B-17 is damaged.
      9 B-24s are dispatched on CARPETBAGGER operations.

    MEDITERRANEAN THEATER OF OPERATIONS (MTO)

      AAF, MTO: 16th Reconnaissance Squadron (Heavy, Special), AAF, MTO, moves
    from Foch Field, Tunisia to Foggia, Italy with B-17s; a detachment is
    operating from Borgo, Corsica. The 16th serves as a radar detection and
    countermeasures unit in the MTO.

      TACTICAL OPERATIONS (Twelfth Air Force): In Italy, B-25s and B-26s pound
    railway bridges at Monte Molino, Orvieto, and Taggia, bridge approaches at
    Ficulle and Imperia, and Ventimiglia marshalling yards; A-20s attack
    ammunition dumps; P-40s and P-47s attack rail lines, bridge, dump, guns and
    buildings in the battle area and score 4 direct hits on an observation post S
    of Cassino; vessels and docks at Civitavecchia and Montalto di Castro and
    road bridges and rail lines in the area; town of Fondi and rail lines and
    bridges nearby; railway bridges at Foligno, Sant'Elpidio a Mare and Grosseto;
    viaduct at Terni; and numerous vehicles, dumps, railroads, vessels, and other
    targets in the battle areas and in N Italy; and 447th Bombardment Squadron
    (Medium), 321st Bombardment Group (Medium), moves from Gaudo Airfield to
    Solenzara, Corsica with B-25s.

    PACIFIC OCEAN AREA (POA, Seventh Air Force): B-25s from Kwajalein Atoll bomb
    Wotje Atoll while others, based at Makin Island, strike both Jaluit and Wotje
    Atolls, using Majuro Atoll as a rearming base between raids.

    SOUTH PACIFIC AREA (SOPAC, Thirteenth Air Force): On Bougainville Island, 8
    P-39s bomb buildings at Monoitu; 17 others, in the course of 6 missions, hit
    targets of opportunity, including Japanese-occupied huts and buildings at
    Toiemonapu, Tinputs and Sisiruai, and bivouacs at Tarlena, Ratsua and
    Mawareka. On New Britain Island, 24 B-25s bomb Kulon Plantation and a
    personnel concentration to the NE. Allied fighter sweeps over the N Solomons
    and the Bismarck Archipelago continue. P-40s returning from the New Britain
    Island area bomb Pororan, Bougainville Island.

    SOUTHWEST PACIFIC AREA (SWPA, Fifth Air Force): In New Guinea, 72 B-24s,
    B-25s and A-20s thoroughly blast Wewak and Boram Airfields in a single raid;
    about 120 A-20s, B-25s and fighter-bombers, operating throughout the day, hit
    the Wewak and Hansa Bay areas, including targets at Nubia, Uligan, Mushu
    Island, Wewak and Boram; airfields at Maffin Bay are bombed by B-25s.
      Moves in New Guinea: 7th and 8th Fighter Squadrons, 49th Fighter Group,
    from Finschhafen and Gusap respectively to Hollandia with P-40s; 65th Troop
    Carrier Squadron, 433d Troop Carrier Group, based at Nadzab with C-47s,
    begins operating from Tadji.

    THURSDAY, 4 MAY 1944

    CHINA-BURMA-INDIA (CBI) THEATER OF OPERATIONS

      BURMA-INDIA (Tenth Air Force): In Burma, a single B-24 bombs Akyab; 12
    B-25s damage a bridge at Kalemyo and bomb Tiddim; 24 B-24s bomb Mandalay
    marshalling yard and barracks and the general area at Maymyo; 2 P-51s knock
    out a bypass bridge near Shweli.

      CHINA (Fourteenth Air Force): In China, 8 P-40s hit gun positions at
    Pailochi; 2 B-25s strafe 12 sampans between Hong Kong and the Luichow
    Peninsula, killing many soldiers on board.

    EUROPEAN THEATER OF OPERATIONS (ETO)

      STRATEGIC OPERATIONS (Eighth Air Force): Mission 338: 591 bombers and 516
    fighters are dispatched to Berlin, Brunswick and targets in C Germany; the
    mission is recalled due to cloud cover but 40 B-17s bomb Bergen/Alkmaar
    Airfield, The Netherlands; 1 B-17 is damaged beyond repair and 15 damaged;
    2 airmen are KIA and 1 WIA. Escort is provided by 50 P-38s, 179 P-47s and
    287 Eighth and Ninth Air Force P-51s; the P-47s claim 8-2-5 Luftwaffe
    aircraft and the P-51s claim 1-0-1; 2 P-47s and 1 P-51 are lost, 3 P-47s
    and 2 P-51s are damaged beyond repair and 1 P-38 and 8 P-47s are damaged; 1
    airman is WIA and 3 MIA.
      HQ 95th Combat Bombardment Wing (Heavy) moves from Ketteringham to
    Halesworth, England.

      TACTICAL OPERATIONS (Ninth Air Force): In France, 170+ B-26s and 36 A-20s
    bomb gun emplacements and other military targets at Etretat/Sainte-Marie-Au-
    Bosc, Etaples, Le Treport, Ault, Fecamp and Ouistreham.

    MEDITERRANEAN THEATER OF OPERATIONS (MTO)

      TACTICAL OPERATIONS (Twelfth Air Force): In Italy, main effort again is
    against lines of communications; medium bombers hit bridges, tracks and
    marshalling yards; P-40s, A-36s and P-47s hit rail lines in and around
    Priverno, guns and radar station N of Anzio, railroad cars, rail lines, and
    bridge in the Orte-Attigliano and Orte-Narni areas, motor transport and
    stores E of Frascati, marshalling yards at Colleferro and Follonica, and
    trucks and personnel on the Fondi-Pico road; vessels at Leghorn and numerous
    railroad targets at scattered points are attacked.
      Flight of the 5th Combat Mapping Squadron, 3d Photographic Group
    (Reconnaissance), operating from San Severo, Italy returns to base at
    Pomigliano, Italy with F-5s.

    PACIFIC OCEAN AREA (POA, Seventh Air Force): 12 B-25s, based at Makin Island,
    pound Jaluit and Wotje Atolls, using Majuro Atoll as a shuttle base for
    rearming between the strikes. 39 B-24s from Kwajalein and Eniwetok Atolls hit
    Ponape Island.

    SOUTH PACIFIC AREA (SOPAC, Thirteenth Air Force): On New Britain Island, 24
    B-25s bomb the Talili Bay area; 43 fighter-bombers hit Vunakanau Airfield;
    Allied fighter sweeps over the Bismarck Archipelago continue. 38 P-39s, flying
    18 missions, hit several targets on Bougainville Island, including buildings
    at Sovele, Tinputs, the Reboine Bay area, Monoitu and in the area N of Taki;
    targets of opportunity in the Koromira area are also attacked.

    SOUTHWEST PACIFIC AREA (SWPA, Fifth Air Force): In New Guinea, 26 B-24s of
    the Thirteenth Air Task Force bomb Mokmer Airfield; 60+ B-24s, B-25s, A-20s
    and P-47s pound airfields, road, bridges, shipping, barges and other targets
    in the Wewak area; A-20s attack bridges over the Awar River and targets of
    opportunity in the Hansa Bay area while fighter-bombers hit targets of
    opportunity in the Ramu River Valley and on the Hansa Bay coast.

    FRIDAY, 5 MAY 1944

    CHINA-BURMA-INDIA (CBI) THEATER OF OPERATIONS

      BURMA-INDIA (Tenth Air Force): In Burma, 15 P-38s hit targets along Tiddim
    road; 3 B-25s bomb the Thayaung Airfield area; 80+ P-40s, P-51s, A-36s and
    B-25s carry out support of ground forces, hit gun positions and supply dumps,
    attack troop concentrations and blast numerous targets of opportunity
    throughout the Mogaung Valley; 3 B-25s and 6 fighter-bombers hit an
    ammunition dump N of Mohnyin; and 12 P-38s bomb a large warehouse E of Monywa.
    6 B-24s lay mines in the harbor off Koh Si Chang Island, Thailand.

      CHINA (Fourteenth Air Force): 11 B-24s bomb docks and shipping at Haiphong,
    French Indochina. In Burma, P-40s damage bridges at Hsenwi and Wan Pa-Hsa and
    hit barracks and destroy several trucks at Kentung. In China, 8 B-25s and 23
    fighter-bombers attack the warehouse area at Chiuchiang, causing large fires;
    25 CACW B-25s and P-40s thoroughly pound Sinyang marshalling yard and storage
    area; and 10 P-40s sweep the road from Loyang to Juchou, claiming 40-50
    vehicles and numerous troops destroyed.

    EUROPEAN THEATER OF OPERATIONS (ETO)

      STRATEGIC OPERATIONS (Eighth Air Force): Mission 339: 33 of 46 B-24s hit
    the V-weapon site at Sottevast, France; 1 B-24 is damaged beyond repair and 6
    damaged; 4 airmen are KIA. Escort is provided by 52 P-51s without loss.
      Duing the night, 21 B-24s are dispatched on CARPETBAGGER missions; 1 B-24
    is lost.
      HQ 95th Combat Bombardment Wing (Heavy) moves from Ketteringham to
    Halesworth, England.

      TACTICAL OPERATIONS (Ninth Air Force): Brigadier General Myron R Wood
    assumes command of the IX Air Forces Services Command.

    MEDITERRANEAN THEATER OF OPERATIONS (MTO)

      STRATEGIC OPERATIONS (Fifteenth Air Force): 465th Bombardment Group (Heavy)
    with B-24s becomes operational, making a total of 20 heavy bomber groups
    operational in the Fifteenth Air Force.
      640+ bombers (the largest force to date) attack targets in Rumania and
    Yugoslavia; the B-17s hit marshalling yards at Ploesti/Campina and Brasnov,
    Rumania; the B-24s hit the marshalling yard at Ploesti and troop
    concentrations at Podgoricu, Yugoslavia; fighters fly 240+ sorties in support.

      TACTICAL OPERATIONS (Twelfth Air Force): In Italy, A-20s bomb a supply dump
    W of Albano Laziale; XII Tactical Air Command A-36s, P-47s and P-40s fly 24
    missions cutting rail lines N and NE of Rome, and hitting guns N of the Anzio
    beachhead and N of Gaeta and a dump near Frascati; bridges at Orvieto and W
    of Lake Bolsena are damaged by direct hits, a barge at San Stefano al Mare is
    hit, several trucks destroyed or damaged, rail lines are cut in several
    places near Sesti Bagni and aircraft are hit at the Canino landing ground.
      A flight of the 5th Combat Mapping Squadron, 3d Photographic Group
    (Reconnaissance), operating from San Severo, Italy returns to base at
    Pomigliano, Italy with F-5s.

    PACIFIC OCEAN AREA (POA, Seventh Air Force): During the night of 4/5 May
    B-24s from Kwajalein Atoll stage through Eniwetok Atoll and bomb Truk Atoll.
    During the day B-25s from Eniwetok Atoll strike Ponape Island, and 10 from
    Makin Island hit Jaluit and Wotje Atolls, Marshall Islands, using Majuro
    Atoll as a rearming base between the attacks.

    SOUTH PACIFIC AREA (SOPAC, Thirteenth Air Force): In the Solomon Islands, 24
    B-25s bomb gun positions at Buka on Buka Island and 34 P-39s hit various
    targets on Bougainville and Buka Islands, including buildings at Porton,
    Chabai and Kohiso, a pillbox on Pau Island and a road near Tsundawan; supply
    area at Chabai is bombed by 12 other P-39s; P-40s bomb buildings at Kieta and
    at nearby Rigu Mission. Fighter patrols continue over the N Solomons Islands
    and the Bismarck Archipelago.

    SOUTHWEST PACIFIC AREA (SWPA, Fifth Air Force): In New Guinea, B-24s bomb
    Mokmer Airfield while B-25s hit supply areas at Wakde Island and along the
    coast of Maffin Bay; A-20s and fighter-bombers again pound targets around
    Wewak and along the coast of Hansa Bay, hitting supply and personnel areas,
    warehouses and occupied villages.

    SATURDAY, 6 MAY 1944

    CHINA-BURMA-INDIA (CBI) THEATER OF OPERATIONS

      BURMA-INDIA (Tenth Air Force): In Burma, 14 B-25s bomb Indainggyi,
    destroy the Sibong bridge and damage a road at Hpaungzeik; 90+ P-40s, P-51s
    and B-25s attack a wide variety of targets throughout the Mogaung Valley; 18
    fighter-bombers and 6 B-25s support ground forces at Mawlu while 3 B-25s and
    4 P-51s hit positions at Nalong.

      CHINA (Fourteenth Air Force): 61 P-40s and 5 B-25s attack targets
    throughout S China and French Indochina. In China, numerous vehicles and
    troops are destroyed in the Hsiangcheng, Loyang and Luchou areas; main
    buildings at Nanchang mines are destroyed, Sienning bridge is damaged and
    several railroad cars and vehicles are destroyed near Puchi; and 14 B-25s
    and 25 fighter-bombers pound the airfield and surrounding area at Hankow. In
    French Indochina, 8 boxcars are destroyed and 70 more damaged between Thanh
    Moi and Bac Le and between Phu Lang Thuong and Lang Son; a barge is sunk at
    Campha Port and numerous sampans and small craft sunk or damaged at Cat Ba
    Island.
      Detachment of 22d Bombardment Squadron (Medium), 341st Bombardment Group
    (Medium), operating from Yunnani, China with B-25s returns to base at
    Yangkai.

    EUROPEAN THEATER OF OPERATIONS (ETO)

      STRATEGIC OPERATIONS (Eighth Air Force): Mission 340: 168 bombers and 185
    fighters are dispatched to hit NOBALL (V-weapon) targets in France; 90 B-17s
    dispatched to the Pas de Calais area return to base with bombs due to cloud
    cover over the target; 70 of 78 B-24s hit Siracourt; 48 B-17s are damaged.
    Escort is provided by 57 Ninth Air Force P-38s, 47 P-47s and 81 P-51s without
    loss.
      Mission 341: 5 of 5 B-17s drop 3.22 million leaflets on 19 towns in
    France and Belgium; 1 B-17 encounters a night fighter and claims 0-1-0; the
    B-17 is damaged.
      22 B-24s are dispatched on CARPETBAGGER operations.

      TACTICAL OPERATIONS (Ninth Air Force): 75 B-26s and A-20s dispatched to
    attack coastal defenses abort the mission because of weather.
      422d Night Fighter Squadron, 71st Fighter Wing, moves from Charmy Down to
    Scorton, England with P-61s; first mission is 3 Jul.

    MEDITERRANEAN THEATER OF OPERATIONS (MTO)

      STRATEGIC OPERATIONS (Fifteenth Air Force): About 300 B-17s and B-24s,
    escorted by P-51s and P-38s, hit targets in Rumania; the B-17s attack an
    aircraft factory at Brasov and marshalling yard at Turnu Severin; the B-24s
    bomb Ploesti/Campina marshalling yard and an aircraft factory at Brasov.

      TACTICAL OPERATIONS (Twelfth Air Force): In Italy, A-20s pound a storage
    area at Itri; A-36s hit rail lines in the Viterbo area; P 40s hit guns,
    tracks and railroad station in and around Frosinone, and rail lines,
    stations, roads and town area in and near Itri, Colleferro and Sezze; P-47s
    hit Certaldo marshalling yard and numerous railroad and highway targets,
    including several bridges; and HQ 324th Fighter Group and 314th Fighter
    Squadron move from Cercola to Pignataro Maggiore with P-40s.

    PACIFIC OCEAN AREA (POA, Seventh Air Force): B-25s from Makin Island and
    Kwajalein Atoll hit Wotje and Jaluit Atolls. B-24s, staging through Eniwetok
    Atoll, escort USN aircraft on a photo reconnaissance of Guam Island, Marianas
    Islands. The B-24s bomb Guam from 20,000 ft (6,096 m), scoring hits on 2
    airfields and a town area and proceed to Los Negros Island, Admiralty Islands
    to prepare for the return flight; the B-24s claim 4 enemy aircraft shot down.

    SOUTH PACIFIC AREA (SOPAC, Thirteenth Air Force): 24 B-25s and 12 P-39s pound
    the Talili Bay area on New Britain Island. 37 P-39s and 19 P-40s attack
    targets in the Porton area, Bougainville Island.
      HQ 4th Photographic Group (Reconnaissance) moves from Espiritu Santo
    Island, New Hebrides Islands to Guadalcanal Island, Solomon Islands.

    SOUTHWEST PACIFIC AREA (SWPA, Fifth Air Force): B-24s bomb Penfoei, Timor
    Island, Lesser Sunda Islands and Biak Island off New Guinea. In New Guinea,
    150+ B-25s, A-20s and fighter-bombers, operating almost continuously
    throughout the day, blast a variety of targets from Wewak to the shores of
    Hansa Bay. B-24s of the Thirteenth Air Task Force again bomb Woleai Atoll.

    SUNDAY, 7 MAY 1944

    CHINA-BURMA-INDIA (CBI) THEATER OF OPERATIONS

      BURMA-INDIA (Tenth Air Force): In Burma, 15 P-38s hit the Kangaung area; 4
    P-40s hit targets of opportunity along the road from N of Nanyaseik to
    Kamaing. 4 B-24s lay mines in the Gulf of Siam off Sattahib, Thailand.

      CHINA (Fourteenth Air Force): In China, 4 B-25s hit vehicle concentrations
    W and NW of Hsiangcheng and bomb the town of Chiahsien and 4 P-40s destroy at
    least 25 trucks between the 2 towns; 8 P-40s destroy or damage 40-60 trucks,
    tanks and other vehicles during road sweeps from Loyang to Yenshih and from
    Yehhsien to Paofeng; 8 P-40s strafe forces and equipment E of Luchou, while 4
    hit railroad targets of opportunity at Lang Son, French Indochina.

    EUROPEAN THEATER OF OPERATIONS (ETO)

      STRATEGIC OPERATIONS (Eighth Air Force): Mission 342: In the morning, 922
    bombers and 764 fighters are dispatched to bomb targets in Germany; 9 bombers
    and 4 fighters are lost; 1 Luftwaffe aircraft is claimed shot down:
      1. 600 B-17s are dispatched on a PFF attack on Berlin; 514 bomb the
    primary and 39 hit targets of opportunity; 8 B-17s are lost, 2 are damaged
    beyond repair and 265 damaged; 8 airmen are KIA, 14 WIA and 83 MIA.
      2. Of 322 B-24s dispatched, 147 bomb Munster and 165 bomb Osnabruck; 1
    B-24 is lost, 1 damaged beyond repair and 22 damaged; 1 airman is KIA, 2
    WIA and 6 MIA.
      Escort is provided by 153 P-38s, 317 P-47s and 284 P-51s; 2 P-38s, 1 P-47
    and 1 P-51 are lost, 1 P-51 is damaged beyond repair and 5 P-38s, 3 P-47s
    and 1 P-51 damaged; 3 pilots are MIA.
      In the afternoon, 29 of 67 B-24s bomb the marshalling yard at Liege,
    Belgium without loss; escort is provided by 24 P-47s and 51 P-51s without
    loss.
      Mission 343: 3 of 4 B-17s drop 1.6 million leaflets on 16 towns in C
    France without loss.
      14 B-24s are dispatched on CARPETBAGGER missions without loss.

    MEDITERRANEAN THEATER OF OPERATIONS (MTO)

      STRATEGIC OPERATIONS (Fifteenth Air Force): 420+ B-17s and B-24s bomb
    targets in Rumania and Yugoslavia; the B-17s and B-24s hit marshalling
    yards at Bucharest, Rumania and 38 B-17s also hit a railroad bridge at
    Belgrade, Yugoslavia; 62 P-51s escort heavy bombers to the target and 53
    provide withdrawal escort; 84 P-38s fly target cover.

      TACTICAL OPERATIONS (Twelfth Air Force): In Italy, weather remains poor and
    precludes medium bomber operations; A-20s hit a dump SW of Albano Laziale;
    fighter-bombers hit communications, especially roads, with excellent results;
    roads, motor transports, trains, gun positions, bridges, tracks, marshalling
    yards, harbor areas and other targets are attacked in areas around
    Stimigliano, Vetralla, Viterbo, Bracciano, Anzio, Manziana, Acquapendente,
    Civitavecchia, Terracina, Rome and Elba Island.

    PACIFIC OCEAN AREA (POA, Seventh Air Force): B-24s, staging through Eniwetok
    Atoll, bomb Truk Atoll during the night of 6/7 May. B-25s from Engebi Island
    hit Ponape Island during the following day. Makin Island-based B-25s bomb
    Jaluit and Wotje Atolls.

    SOUTH PACIFIC AREA (SOPAC, Thirteenth Air Force): 15 B-25s, hampered by bad
    weather, attack a coastal gun on Cape Friendship, Bougainville Island and
    bomb the west coast of Rantan Island, Solomon Islands; 70+ P-39s, P-38s and
    P-40s bomb numerous targets throughout Buka and Bougainville Islands
    including shipping and supply area at Chabai and Tsirogei, huts at Hiru
    Hiru, near Tonu, and at Monoitu and bridges W of Haigi and on the Miwo
    River.

    SOUTHWEST PACIFIC AREA (SWPA, Fifth Air Force): In New Guinea, B-24s, B-25s
    and P-40s hit Urarom, Biak Island, the Hollandia-Wakde coast, and Sawar-
    Maffin Bay area; A-20s, B-25s and fighter-bombers again attack targets of
    opportunity from Wewak to the area around Hansa Bay and strafe villages along
    the Sepik River; and 90th Bombardment Squadron (Light), 3d Bombardment Group
    (Light), moves from Nadzab to Hollandia with A-20s.

    MONDAY, 8 MAY 1944

    CHINA-BURMA-INDIA (CBI) THEATER OF OPERATIONS

      BURMA-INDIA (Tenth Air Force): In Burma, 9 B-24s and 9 B-25s bomb Moirang
    and a village to the N, causing considerable damage including the destruction
    of a road bridge; 12 P-38s hit Kangaung Airfield.

    EUROPEAN THEATER OF OPERATIONS (ETO): General Dwight D Eisenhower sets D-Day
    for the Normandy invasion as 5 Jun; the date subsequently will be changed to
    6 Jun.

      STRATEGIC OPERATIONS (Eighth Air Force): Mission 344: In the morning, 807
    bombers and 729 fighters are dispatched to hit targets in Germany in a PFF
    mission; the bombers claim 76-16-16 Luftwaffe fighters, the fighters claim
    55-4-20; 36 bombers and 13 fighters are lost:
      1. 500 B-17s are dispatched to bomb Berlin; 386 B-17s hit the primary, 42
    bomb Brunswick, 17 bomb Brandenburg and 8 bomb Magderburg; 25 B-17s are lost,
    1 is damaged beyond repair and 169 damaged; 1 airman is KIA, 7 WIA and 261
    MIA.
      2. 307 B-24s are dispatched to Brunswick; 288 hit the primary and 1 hits a
    target of opportunity; 11 B-24s are lost, 7 are damaged beyond repair and 28
    damaged; 7 airmen are KIA, 8 WIA and 112 MIA.
      Escort is provided by 152 P-38s, 295 P-47s and 282 P-51s; the P-38s claim
    6-0-3 Luftwaffe aircraft, the P-47s claim 9-1-5 and the P-51s claim 40-3-12;
    4 P-38s, 4 P-47s and 5 P-51s are lost; 1 P-47 and 1 P-51 are damaged beyond
    repair; 3 P-47s and 1 P-51 are damaged; 1 pilot is WIA and 13 MIA.
      Mission 345: In the afternoon, 164 bombers and 97 fighters are dispatched
    against targets in France and Belgium; 5 bombers are lost:
      1. 92 of 101 B-17s bomb V-weapon sites at Glacerie and Sottevast, France; 5
    B-17s are lost, 1 damaged beyond repair and 29 damaged; 28 airmen are MIA.
      2. 57 of 63 B-24s hit Brussels/Schaerbeck marshalling yard, Belgium; 29
    B-24s are damaged; 2 airmen are KIA, 2 WIA and 19 MIA.
      Escort is provided by 97 P-47s without loss.
      Mission 346: 3 of 4 B-17s drop 1.6 million leaflets on 10 towns in France
    without loss.

      TACTICAL OPERATIONS (Ninth Air Force): About 450 B-26s and A-20s bomb
    marshalling yards, coastal defenses, bridges, airfields and V-weapons sites
    in France and Belgium.

    MEDITERRANEAN THEATER OF OPERATIONS (MTO)

      TACTICAL OPERATIONS (Twelfth Air Force): In Italy, fighter-bombers hit
    roads and railroads N of Rome, a supply dump N of Anzio beachhead, and the
    station at Colleferro; numerous trucks and railroad cars are destroyed and
    many troops killed; Attacks against rolling stock on the Rome-Orte rail line
    are especially effective; HQ 62d Troop Carrier Group and 4th, 7th and 8th
    Troop Carrier Squadrons move from Ponte Olivo, Sicily to Gaudo Airfield (4th
    Troop Carrier Squadron is operating from bases in India); and 524th Fighter-
    Bomber Squadron, 27th Fighter-Bomber Group, moves from Castel Volturno to
    Santa Maria with P-40s.

    PACIFIC OCEAN AREA (POA, Seventh Air Force): B-25s from Engebi Island strike
    Ponape Island while Makin Island-based B-25s pound Jaluit and Wotje Atolls,
    using Majuro Atoll as a shuttle base between strikes. B-24s that landed at
    Los Negros Island after the strike on Guam Island on 6 May return to the
    Marshall Islands, bombing Ponape Island en route.

    SOUTH PACIFIC AREA (SOPAC, Thirteenth Air Force): Fighter-bombers pound
    Tobera Airfield, New Britain Island and strafe targets of opportunity in the
    area. 2 squadrons of B-24s bomb gun positions at Sohano Island, Solomon
    Islands and Hahilia, New Britain Island while on Bougainville Island, 30+
    P-39s and P-40s hit areas around Porton, Tsimba, Tarara, Kieta, Numa Numa,
    Tsirogei and at several other points and B-25s blast the coast near Banin,
    hit Sohano Island, and bomb airfield areas at Bonis and Buka on Buka Island.
      390th Bombardment Squadron (Medium), 42d Bombardment Group (Medium), based
    in the Russell Islands, Solomon Islands with B-25s, ceases operating from
    Stirling Island, Solomon Islands.

    SOUTHWEST PACIFIC AREA (SWPA, Fifth Air Force): In New Guinea, B-24s and
    P-40s operating in the Geelvink Bay area attack Mokmer Airfield and nearby
    shipping; A-20s and fighter-bombers continue to pound targets of opportunity
    along the NE New Guinea coast from Wewak to Hansa Bay and along the Sepik
    River.

    TUESDAY, 9 MAY 1944

    CHINA-BURMA-INDIA (CBI) THEATER OF OPERATIONS

      BURMA-INDIA (Tenth Air Force): In Burma, 100+ RAF Vengeances, P-51s and
    B-25s hit positions and occupied areas at Moirang, Kanglatongbi, Myothit and
    SE of Palel, and severely damage a bridge over the Uyu River near
    Nawngpu-awng; Mogaung Valley targets, including targets in support of ground
    forces near Kamaing, are pounded by 60+ B-25s, A-36s, P-51s and P-40s; 9
    P-51s hit troops and gun positions at Mawlu and Namkwin and hit the Nalong
    area; 3 B-24s blast the barracks area at Nagorn Sawarn while 3 P-51s hit
    Anisakan Airfield, destroying or damaging 20+ trucks, 2 aircraft and a
    locomotive; 8 B-24s lay mines in the Moulmein area, 2 others make a
    diversionary strike on Martaban, and 5 mine the Mergui waterfront.

      CHINA (Fourteenth Air Force): HQ 33d Fighter Group moves from Shwangliu to
    Pungchacheng, China.

    EUROPEAN THEATER OF OPERATIONS (ETO)

      STRATEGIC OPERATIONS (Eighth Air Force): Mission 347: 823 bombers and 668
    fighters are dispatched to hit marshalling yards and airfields in France,
    Belgium and Luxembourg; this is the beginning of the pre-invasion bombing of
    enemy installations; 6 bombers and 7 fighters are lost:
      1. Of 220 B-17s, 75 hit St Dizier Airfield, 53 hit Thionville Airfield and
    37 hit Thionville marshalling yard, France and 53 hit Luxembourg marshalling
    yard, Luxembourg; 38 B-17s are damaged.
      2. 242 B-17s are dispatched to bomb airfields in France; 113 hit
    Laon/Athies, 71 hit Juvincourt, 43 hit Laon/Couvron, 10 hit Lille/Vendeville
    and 1 hits Chievres; 2 B-17s are lost and 44 damaged; 1 airman is KIA, 1 WIA
    and 20 MIA.
      3. Of 361 B-24s, 101 hit St Trond Airfield, 96 hit Florennes Airfield, 63
    hit Liege marshalling yard and 6 hit Hody Airfield, Belgium and 68 hit
    Laon/Couvron Airfield and 10 hit Nivelles Airfield, France; 2 B-24s are lost,
    and 35 damaged; 2 airmen are KIA, 1 WIA and 44 MIA.
      Escort is provided by 144 P-38s, 277 P-47s and 247 P-51s; the P-47s claim
    2-0-1 Luftwaffe aircraft in the air and 1-0-4 on the ground, the P-51s claim
    1-0-0 in the air; 1 P-38 and 6 P-51s are lost; 1 P-38 is damaged beyond
    repair and 1 P-51 is damaged; 6 pilots are MIA.
      Mission 348: 3 of 3 B-17s drop 1.34 million leaflets on 4 towns in The
    Netherlands and 3 in Belgium.
      13 B-24s are dispatched on CARPETBAGGER missions without loss.

      TACTICAL OPERATIONS (Ninth Air Force): 367th and 406th Fighter Groups
    become operational, the 17th and 18th operational groups.
      40+ B-26s attack marshalling yards, railway batteries, coastal defense
    batteries, bridges, and NOBALL sites in France.

    MEDITERRANEAN THEATER OF OPERATIONS (MTO)

      TACTICAL OPERATIONS (Twelfth Air Force): In Italy, B-26s hit Incisa in
    Valdarno railroad bridge and viaduct while A-20s attack fuel dumps; fighter-
    bombers again blast roads and railroads and other targets at various
    locations N of Rome, including Lake Bolsena, Civitavecchia, Colleferro,
    Civita Castellana, Orte and San Giovanni Valdarno; HQ 87th Fighter Wing moves
    from Bastia to Vescovato, Corsica; 111th Tactical Reconnaissance Squadron,
    68th Tactical Reconnaissance Group, attached to XII Tactical Air Command,
    moves from Pomigliano to Santa Maria with F-6s; and 522d and 523d Fighter-
    Bomber Squadrons, 27th Fighter-Bomber Group, moves from Castel Volturno to
    Santa Maria with A-36s and P-40s.

    PACIFIC OCEAN AREA (POA, Seventh Air Force): During the night of 8/9 May
    B-24s stage through Kwajalein Atoll to bomb Truk Atoll. Makin Island-based
    B-25s hit Wotje and Jaluit Atolls, using Majuro Atoll as a rearming point
    between attacks.

    SOUTH PACIFIC AREA (SOPAC, Thirteenth Air Force): 33 fighter-bombers pound
    the airfield at Lakunai, New Britain Island; fighter sweeps over New Ireland
    and New Britain Islands, Bismarck Archipelago, continue. On Bougainville
    Island, 30+ P-39s and P-38s hit barges in the Porton-Chabai area, huts at
    Kieta and an ammunition dump S of Aitara Mission; 10 other P-38s and 12 B-25s
    bomb Bonis Airfield and nearby targets of opportunity in Buka Passage.

    SOUTHWEST PACIFIC AREA (SWPA, Fifth Air Force): In New Guinea, 50+ B-24s and
    B-25s bomb Langgoer and Faan airstrips, Bosnik supply area and Mokmer
    Airfield; 220+ A-20s and fighter-bombers continue to blast numerous targets
    of opportunity along the NE coastline from Wewak to the Hansa Bay area. 12
    B-24s of the Thirteenth Air Task Force bomb Woleai Atoll.

    WEDNESDAY, 10 MAY 1944

    AMERICAN THEATER OF OPERATIONS

      ALASKA (Eleventh Air Force): The Eleventh directs its components to place
    more emphasis on photographing and bombing of specific targets instead of
    general reconnaissance.

    CHINA-BURMA-INDIA (CBI) THEATER OF OPERATIONS: In a drive to free the Burma
    Road, Chinese troops cross the Salween River on a 100-mi (160 km) front and
    attack Japanese positions in N Burma.

      BURMA-INDIA (Tenth Air Force): In Burma, 70+ B-25s, A-36s, P-51s, P-40s and
    10 B-24s blast numerous targets, concentrating on barracks and storage in the
    Myitkyina-Mogaung vicinity and also hitting gun positions and bridges at
    Kamaing and railroad siding and buildings at Mohnyin; 16 P-38s destroy
    several aircraft in strikes on Aungban and Kangaung Airfields.

      CHINA (Fourteenth Air Force): P-40s sink 6 large junks and damage several
    others in Fan Tou Bay, China and destroy several trucks between Wan Pa-Hsa
    and Mong Ho Pung, Burma. 28 P-40s bomb Tengchung, China town area, strafe
    a nearby truck convoy, damage bridges at Tingka, China; Bac Le, French
    Indochina; and Hsenwi, Burma; hit a power dam at Tasa, French Indochina; bomb
    a tank and truck dispersal area at Hsiangcheng, China; and hit 30+ railroad
    cars at Lang Giai, Dong Dang and Na Cham, French Indochina.

    EUROPEAN THEATER OF OPERATIONS (ETO)

      STRATEGIC OPERATIONS (Eighth Air Force): A bomber mission to Germany is
    abandoned dur to deteriorating weather.

      TACTICAL OPERATIONS (Ninth Air Force): About 300 B-26s attack marshalling
    yards, airfields, and NOBALL targets in France and Belgium. P-47s and P-51s
    dive-bomb targets in NW Europe for the sixth straight day. Bad weather causes
    a large number of aborts.

    MEDITERRANEAN THEATER OF OPERATIONS (MTO)

      STRATEGIC OPERATIONS (Fifteenth Air Force): 485th Bombardment Group
    (Heavy) with B-24s is declared operational, giving the Fifteenth Air Force
    its planned operational strength of 21 bomber groups. The 52d Fighter Group
    with P-51s  also begins operations with the Fifteenth on this date, making
    a total of 6 fighter groups.
      Around 400 bombers attack targets at Wiener Neustadt Austria; B-17s bomb
    aviation industry targets; B-24s bomb the industrial area and an air depot;
    200+ fighters provide support; 300+ bombers are forced to abort due to bad
    weather which has halted operations for the past few days; opposition is
    fierce; 21 bombers and 1 fighter are lost; US aircraft claim 50 aircraft.

      TACTICAL OPERATIONS (Twelfth Air Force): In Italy, weather permits medium
    bomber operations for first time in several days; B-25s hit bridges near San
    Giovanni Valdarno, Orvieto and Monte Molino, and the Terni viaduct; B-26s
    attack bridges W of Arezzo; fighter-bombers continue attacks on roads and
    railroads N of Rome; targets in the areas of Avezzano, Civitavecchia,
    Furbara, Terni, Todi, Orvieto, Manciano, Perugia, Monte San Savino and La
    Saezia, and near Rome are attacked.
      Units moving from Cercola to Pignataro Maggiore, Italy with P-40s: 99th
    Fighter Squadron, 332d Fighter Group, attached to 324th Fighter Group: 315th
    and 316th Fighter Squadrons, 324th Fighter Group.

    PACIFIC OCEAN AREA (POA, Seventh Air Force): B-24s from Kwajalein Atoll bomb
    Wake Island during the night of 9/10 May. During the day, B-25s from Engebi
    Island bomb Ponape Island while Makin Island-based B-25s raid Jaluit and
    Wotje Atolls.

    SOUTH PACIFIC AREA (SOPAC, Thirteenth Air Force): On New Britain Island, 41
    fighter-bombers attack Tobera Airfield; 11 B-25s hit Matupi Island, Bismarck
    Archipelago; fighters on a sweep, hit trucks W of Keravat. On Bougainville
    Island, 4 B-25s bomb Majuai Mission; 61 P-39s (some back from the Tobera
    strike) and 12 P-40s attack targets throughout the Buka-Bougainville
    Islands area, including a bridge over the Crepers River, a supply area at
    Mawareka, a barge at Chabai, a village on Schwarze Point, a pillbox at Gohi
    and the general area of Porton Plantations.

    SOUTHWEST PACIFIC AREA (SWPA, Fifth Air Force): In New Guinea, 120+ B-24s,
    A-20s and fighter-bombers, along with Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF)
    aircraft, maintain attacks on targets of opportunity along the NE coast from
    the Hansa Bay area to Wewak; 2 B-24s hit Mokmer Airfield. 45 B-24s of the
    Thirteenth Air Task Force bomb the airfield on Eten Island and warehouse area
    at Dublon Island, both in Truk Atoll.

    THURSDAY, 11 MAY 1944

    CHINA-BURMA-INDIA (CBI) THEATER OF OPERATIONS

      BURMA-INDIA (Tenth Air Force): In Burma, 70+ B-25s, A-36s, P-51s and P-40s,
    attack the Myitkyina and Pinbaw areas, Sahmaw, targets NW of Kamaing, gun
    positions at Nsopzup and targets of opportunity along the road from
    Inkangahtawng to Kamaing; 24 P-51s attack the airfield at Meiktila, Anisakan
    and Heho, shooting down 13 aircraft in the area; 14 B-24s pound Maymyo
    railroad station; 12 B-25s attack the railroad in the Shwebo-Sagaing area;
    and 12 other B-25s knock out bridges at Pyu, Thawatti, Ela and 7 mi (11.2 km)
    S of Ela.

      CHINA (Fourteenth Air Force): In China, 24 P-40s knock out the main bridge
    N of Mangshih, bomb the town area of Lungchwanchiang, and in French
    Indochina, damage a radio station on Cat Ba Island and destroy several large
    junks off shore, and attack a power dam W of Cao Bang, buildings at Dong
    Dang, and boxcars and oil drums at Lang Giai. In China, 6 B-25s and 24 P-40s
    (some firing rockets) pound railroad yards and depot at Sinyang, blast a
    warehouse area 30 mi (48 km) to the N and sink a small freighter, 3 motor
    launches and several sampans between Siaokan and Chienli; 2 B-25s and 4 P-40s
    hit troops, tanks and trucks in the Yenshih-Tengfeng-Mihsien area and in the
    Luchou-Hsiangcheng vicinity; 6 P-40s pound supply dumps at Mienchih and 13
    P-40s sink at least 5 supply boats on the Yangtze River in the Hosueh area.

    EUROPEAN THEATER OF OPERATIONS (ETO)

      STRATEGIC OPERATIONS (Eighth Air Force): Mission 350: 364 B-24s and 536
    fighters are dispatched to bomb marshalling yards in France; 8 B-24s and 5
    fighters are lost:
      1. 144 are dispatched to hit Mulhouse; 94 bomb the primary, 19 hit Belfort,
    13 bomb Orleans/Bricy Airfield and 2 hit Mezidon/Pithiviers; 1 B-24 is lost,
    2 damaged beyond repair and 17 damaged; 1 airman is KIA, 7 WIA and 40 MIA.
      2. 74 are dispatched to Belfort; 33 bomb the primary and 24 hit Chaumont;
    1 B-24 is lost.
      3. 76 are dispatched to Epinal; 68 hit the primary and 1 bombs Caen
    Airfield; 3 B-24s are lost.
      4. 70 are dispatched to Chaumont but none bomb; 3 B-24s are lost, 1
    damaged beyond repair and 30 damaged; 1 airman is WIA and 31 MIA.
      Escort is provided by 147 P-38s, 188 P-47s and 201 P-51s; the P-38s claim
    2-0-0 Luftwaffe aircraft on the ground, the P-47s claim 3-0-2 in the air
    and 2-0-6 on the ground and the P-51s claim 3-0-0 on the ground; 2 P-4s and
    3 P-51s are lost, 1 P-51 is damaged beyond repair and 2 P-38s, 6 P-47s and
    2 P-51s are damaged; 5 pilots are MIA.
      Mission 351: In the afternoon, 609 B-17s and 471 fighters are dispatched
    to hit marshalling yards in Belgium, France, Germany and Luxembourg; 8 B-17s
    and 4 fighters are lost; primary targets are Brussels/Midi (55 bomb),
    Brussels (49 bomb) and Liege, Belgium (119 bomb, 2 lost); Saarbrucken (58
    bomb, 5 lost), Kons Karthaus (55 bomb) and Ehrang (60 bomb, 1 lost), Germany;
    and Luxembourg (53 bomb); 12 hit the secondary target at Thionville, France;
    and 16 hit Volkingen, Germany; 19 hit Bettembourg, Luxembourg and 51 hit
    other targets of opportunity; 8 B-17s are lost, 1 damaged beyond repair and
    172 damaged; 2 airmen are KIA, 23 WIA and 83 MIA. Escort is provided by 99
    P-38s, 182 Eighth and Ninth Air Force P-47s and 190 Eighth and Ninth Air
    Force P-51s; the P-51s claim 11-0-4 Luftwaffe aircraft; 4 P-51s are lost,
    the pilots are MIA.
      Mission 352: 4 of 5 B-17s drop 2.4 million leaflets over Denmark; 2
    airmen are KIA and 3 WIA.
      4 B-24s are dispatched on CARPETBAGGER missions.
      850th Bombardment Squadron (Heavy), VIII Air Force Composite Command
    attached to 801st Bombardment Group (Provisional), moves from Eye to
    Cheddington, England with B-24s; the squadron is flying CARPETBAGGER
    missions.

      TACTICAL OPERATIONS (Ninth Air Force): 330+ B-26s attack airfields at
    Beaumont-le-Roger and Cormeilles-en-Vexin and marshalling yard at Mezieres/
    Charleville, France and Aerschot, Belgium. Bad visibility and failure to
    rendezvous with fighters cause 100+ aborts. This is start of Ninth Air
    Force's participation in AAF pre-invasion offensive against airfields.
      14th Liaison Squadron, XIX Tactical Air Command attached to Third Army,
    moves from Alderley Edge to Knutsford, England with L-5s; first mission is
    in Jul 44.

    MEDITERRANEAN THEATER OF OPERATIONS (MTO)

      TACTICAL OPERATIONS (Twelfth Air Force): In Italy, medium bombers, hampered
    by weather, attack Portoferraio, bridges near Orvieto and Ficulle, tracks at
    Piombino, viaduct at Poggibonsi and bridges at Certaldo and Signa; fighter-
    bombers hit Fondi, rail lines NE of Rome, Littoria Airfield, rail facilities
    in the Perugia area, barge, harbor area, and factory in the Portoferraio
    area, and tracks near Castiglione d'Orcia; other fighter-bombers attack
    numerous positions along the main front as the US Fifth and British Eighth
    Armies begin an assault through the Gustav Line and the drive toward Rome.
      414th Night Fighter Squadron, 63d Fighter Wing, based at Elmas, Sardinia,
    sends a detachment to Alghero, Sardinia with Beaufighters; other detachments
    are at Borgo and Ghisonaccia, Corsica.

    PACIFIC OCEAN AREA (POA, Seventh Air Force): B-24s, staging through Eniwetok
    Atoll, bomb Truk Atoll during the night of 10/11 May. During the day B-25s
    from Engebi Island hit Ponape Island while others, based on Makin Island,
    pound Jaluit Atoll.

    SOUTH PACIFIC AREA (SOPAC, Thirteenth Air Force): On New Britain Island, 8
    P-38s bomb a supply-personnel area W of Tobera; 12 B-25s, 12 P-40s and 3
    B-24s hit Vunakanau Airfield; fighters on sweeps and bombing missions hit
    various targets at Kabanga Plantation, the Gazelle Peninsula area, N of the
    Sae River and at Labout. On Bougainville Island, 70+ P-39s, P-40s, and
    P-38s (flying a total of 18 missions) attack a variety of targets, including
    piers at Chabai, Ratsua and Porton, wooded area near Pipipaia, town of
    Siruluna, bridge at Tokinotu, and Buka Airfield on Buka Island.

    SOUTHWEST PACIFIC AREA (SWPA, Fifth Air Force): In New Guinea, 190+ B-24s and
    B-25s bomb gun emplacements and supply areas on Wakde Island and Mokmer
    Airfield and targets of opportunity on Biak Island; 220+ fighter-bombers,
    A-20s, B-24s and B-25s continue to pound coastal bridges and villages, fuel
    dumps, vehicles, gun positions, supply areas, bivouacs and various targets
    along the shoreline from Hansa Bay to Wewak.

    FRIDAY, 12 MAY 1944

    AMERICAN THEATER OF OPERATIONS

      ALASKA (Eleventh Air Force): 1 B-24 reconnoiters and bombs installations
    on Matsuwa Island, Kurile Islands, concentrating on the airfield on Tagan
    Cape.

    CHINA-BURMA-INDIA (CBI) THEATER OF OPERATIONS

      BURMA-INDIA (Tenth Air Force): In Burma, 4 B-25s strike the Tiddim road NNW
    of Tonzang; 50+ B-25s and fighter-bombers knock out a railroad bridge at
    Pinbaw, pound gun positions and supply area at Myitkyina and hit defensive
    positions near Kazu-Tiangsup; 4 B-25s damage Myothit bridge while 8 P-38s
    bomb Kyaukye; 21 P-51s hit airfields at Meiktila and Heho, claiming 8
    Japanese aircraft downed; 4 B-25s knock out a bridge at Daga while 2 others
    bomb a camp at Taungbaw.

      CHINA (Fourteenth Air Force): 16 P-40s and 11 B-25s hit several targets in
    S China and in French Indochina. In China, military installations, artillery
    positions and tank concentrations are pounded in the Yoyang area, a bridge
    and several trucks are damaged at Sienning, a naval vessel is attacked at
    Hong Kong and in French Indochina, a radio station on Cat Ba Island is bombed
    and railroad yards, supply dump, and river junks are blasted in the Phu Langi
    Thuong area; and HQ 81st Fighter Group moves from Karachi, India to Kwanghan.

    EUROPEAN THEATER OF OPERATIONS (ETO)

      STRATEGIC OPERATIONS (Eighth Air Force): Mission 353: 886 bombers and 735
    fighters are dispatched to hit oil production facilities in Germany and
    Czechoslovakia; there is strong Luftwaffe fighter reaction and 46 bombers and
    7 fighters are lost:
      1. 326 B-17s are dispatched to Mersenburg (224 bomb) and Lutzkendorf (87
    bomb); 1 hits Hedrongen and 1 bombs Bullstadt; 2 B-17s are lost, 3 damaged
    beyond repair and 189 damaged; 4 airmen are KIA, 6 WIA and 20 MIA.
      2. 295 B-17s are dispatched to Brux, Czechoslovakia (140 bomb) and Zwickau
    (74 bomb); 11 hit Chemnitz, 14 hit Gera marshalling yard, 15 hit Hof and 4
    hit targets of opportunity; 41 B-17s are lost, 1 is damaged beyond repair and
    162 damaged; 3 airmen are KIA, 8 WIA and 377 MIA.
      3. 265 B-24s are dispatched to Zeitz (116 bomb) and Bohlen (99 bomb); 14
    hit Mersenburg, 1 hits Ostend Airfield, Belgium and 12 hit targets of
    opportunity; 3 B-24s are lost, 5 damaged beyond repair and 61 damaged; 7
    airmen are WIA and 33 MIA.
      Escort is provided by 153 P-38s, 201 P-47s and 381 P-51s; P-38s claim 2-0-0
    Luftwaffe aircraft, P-47s claim 26-0-8 and P-51s claim 33-0-3 in the air and
    5-0-2 on the ground; 4 P-47s and 3 P-51s are lost and 4 P-47s and 9 P-51s are
    damaged; 7 pilots are MIA.
      Mission 354: 5 of 5 B-17s drop 1.74 million leaflets on Denmark; 1 aircraft
    is damaged; 2 airmen are KIA and 3 WIA.

      TACTICAL OPERATIONS (Ninth Air Force): IX Troop Carrier Command carries out
    Operation EAGLE, a full-scale exercise of the tactics and techniques of
    paradrop, glider tow, parapack in resupply, air landing of supplies and
    medical evacuation as a dress rehearsal for the airborne invasion of
    Normandy.
      450+ B-26s attack coastal defenses, airfields, bridges, railroads and
    railroad guns, and V-weapon sites in France and Belgium; thick haze impedes
    visibility and causes many aborts.

    MEDITERRANEAN THEATER OF OPERATIONS (MTO)

      STRATEGIC OPERATIONS (Fifteenth Air Force): In Italy, around 730 B-17s and
    B-24s (largest force to date) attack German HQ at Massa d'Albe and Monte
    Soratte; town of Civitavecchia; airfields at Tarquinia and in the surrounding
    area; marshalling yards at Chivasso, Piombino, Marina di Carrara, Viareggio
    and Ferrara; Orbetello Island; Piombino harbor; docks and communications at
    San Stefano al Mare ; harbor, marshalling yard and railroad bridge at
    Chiavari; La Spesia marshalling yard and harbor; and several targets of
    opportunity; 25 P-38s strafe Piacenza Airfield; other fighters fly 250+
    sorties in support of bombing missions.

      TACTICAL OPERATIONS (Twelfth Air Force): In Italy, A-20s blast command
    posts along the main battlefront as Allied ground forces seek to break
    through the Gustav Line; medium bombers hit a concentration near Fondi,
    attack forces at Vallecorsa and Pastena and bomb numerous positions along the
    main front; fighter-bombers pound command posts, guns, bridges, road and rail
    traffic and troops along the assault front and in the rear areas,
    concentrating especially on the Monte Cassino Benedictine Abbey and
    surrounding area.

    PACIFIC OCEAN AREA (POA, Seventh Air Force): 12 Makin Island-based B-25s bomb
    Nauru Island. A single B-24 from Kwajalein Atoll bombs Jaluit Atoll.

    SOUTH PACIFIC AREA (SOPAC, Thirteenth Air Force): On New Britain Island, 12
    B-25s and 20+ P-40s and P-38s pound Tobera Airstrip and nearby personnel
    areas; some of the B-25s returning from Tobera bomb Sohano Island, Solomon
    Islands; 12 P-39s and about 70 USN SBDs and TBFs sink numerous barges
    throughout the Rabaul area, especially at Simpson Harbor and Keravia Bay; gun
    positions in the Matupi area are also attacked.

    SOUTHWEST PACIFIC AREA (SWPA, Fifth Air Force): B-24s bomb Mokmer Airfield,
    New Guinea, and attack targets on Ceram Island, Moluccas Islands; Amboina,
    Ambon Island, Moluccas Islands; and Timor Island. In New Guinea, A-20s, B-25s
    and fighter-bombers blast villages, coastal bridges and roads, vehicles, the
    airstrip at Boram and other targets throughout the Wewak-Hansa Bay region; HQ
    3d Bombardment Group (Light) moves from Nadzab to Hollandia; 66th Troop
    Carrier Squadron, 433d Troop Carrier Group, based at Nadzab begins operating
    from Tadji with C-47s; 418th Night Fighter Squadron, 310th Bombardment Wing
    (Medium), moves from Finschhafen to Hollandia with B-25Hs, P-38s and P-70s.

    SATURDAY, 13 MAY 1944

    AMERICAN THEATER OF OPERATIONS

      ALASKA (Eleventh Air Force): 1 B-25 flies a shipping strike and strafes 2
    fishing vessels.

    CHINA-BURMA-INDIA (CBI) THEATER OF OPERATIONS

      BURMA-INDIA (Tenth Air Force): In Burma, nearly 100 P-40s and
    P-51s over the Mogaung Valley hit gun positions, bridges, support ground
    forces (near Nanyaseik) and hit numerous targets of opportunity throughout
    the whole valley; 12 A-36s hit positions near Maungdaw; 19 B-25s pound
    several points along the road and bomb troop concentrations at Bishenpur; 30+
    B-24s, B-25s, A-36s, and P-51s hit Indaw, Taungbaw and Mohnyin; and 11 B-25s
    bomb Monywa.

      CHINA (Fourteenth Air Force): In China, 19 B-25s hit storage and warehouse
    areas at Mangshik and Lungling, a bridge at Hsenwi, truck and tank
    concentrations SW of Loyang, and town area of Lungling; 39 P-40s hit military
    installations at Mengta and Tating, a village N of Kaitou bridge at Tingka
    and a truck concentration at Yingyangchen.

      STRATEGIC OPERATIONS (Twentieth Air Force): 771st Bombardment Squadron
    (Very Heavy), 462d Bombardment Squadron (Very Heavy), arrives at Piardoba,
    India from the US with B-29s; first mission is 5 Jun.

    EUROPEAN THEATER OF OPERATIONS (ETO)

      STRATEGIC OPERATIONS (Eighth Air Force): Mission 355: 749 bombers and 737
    fighters hit targets in Germany; 12 bombers and 5 fighters are lost; they
    claim 58-5-13 Luftwaffe aircraft:
      1. 289 B-17s are dispatched to hit oil targets in W Poland but clouds
    force 215 to bomb Stettin and 57 to hit Stralsund; 10 bombers are lost and
    81 damaged; 1 airman is KIA, 1 WIA and 88 MIA.
      2. 199 B-17s are dispatched to hit the marshalling yard at Osnabruck; 178
    hit the primary and 1 bomb a target of opportunity; 1 B-17 is lost and 61
    damaged; 2 airmen are WIA and 10 MIA.
      3. 261 B-24s are dispatched to hit aviation industry targets at Tutow;
    228 hit the primary and 12 hit targets of opportunity; 1 B-24 is lost and 2
    damaged; 1 airman is WIA and 10 MIA.
      Escort is provided by 153 P-38s, 238 P-47s and 346 P-51s; the P-47s claim
    14-2-9 Luftwaffe aircraft, the P-51s claim 33-1-4; 1 P-38, 2 P-47s and 2
    P-51s are lost, 1 P-47 is damaged beyond repair and 5 P-38s and 7 P-51s are
    damaged; 1 pilot is WIA and 5 MIA.

      TACTICAL OPERATIONS (Ninth Air Force): 300+ B-26s and A-20s bomb airfields,
    coastal defenses, railway battery and V-weapon sites in France and Belgium.
    P-47s carry out dive-bombing raids on various targets.

    MEDITERRANEAN THEATER OF OPERATIONS (MTO)

      STRATEGIC OPERATIONS (Fifteenth Air Force): In Italy, bombers continue
    interdiction in support of the ground forces. 670+ B-17s and B-24s mostly
    with fighter escort, attack marshalling yards at Trento, Bronzola, Fidenza,
    Piacenza, Faenza, Imola, Cesena, Modena, Parma, San Rufillo, Borgo San
    Lorenzo, Castel Maggiore and Bologna and hit railroad bridges at Bolzano and
    Avisio; and fighters sweep the Bologna-Modena area.

      TACTICAL OPERATIONS (Twelfth Air Force): In Italy, medium, light and
    fighter-bombers continue to attack lines of communications but devote the
    main effort to support of the Allied ground forces push against the Gustav
    Line (French Expeditionary Force with US Fifth Army gains a spectacular
    breakthrough by a fierce assault); A-20s hit a command post; B-26s damage
    Cortona, Certaldo, Signa and Montepescali bridges; B-25s blast towns in the
    rear of the battleline with good results at Pastena, Pico, Vallecorsa and
    Itri; and fighter-bombers carry out armed reconnaissance and scheduled
    attacks against communications, road and rail traffic and gun positions along
    the immediate battleline and in areas around Esperia, Pico, Sant' Oliva,
    Pignataro Interamna, Arce, Fondi, Perugia, Todi, Spoleto, Terni, Orvieto,
    Chiusi, Rieti and N of Rome.

    PACIFIC OCEAN AREA (POA, Seventh Air Force): B-24s. staging through Eniwetok
    Atoll from Kwajalein Atoll, bomb Truk Atoll during the early morning hours.
    Other B-24s from Kwajalein bomb Maloelap and Jaluit Atolls, Marshall Islands.
    B-25s from Engebi Island hit Ponape Island.

    SOUTH PACIFIC AREA (SOPAC, Thirteenth Air Force): On Bougainville Island, 50+
    P-39s and P-40s attack piers at Ratsua, Porton, Chabai, and Tarlena; 30+
    other fighter-bombers hit various targets, including a supply area SE of
    Bonis, the town of Chabai, a village near Ibu, and huts and villages along
    the Numa Numa trail; 3 B-25s hit coastal guns at Hahela Mission. On New
    Britain Island, 21 B-25s and 40+ P-39s, P-40s, and P-38s pound supply areas
    at Talili Bay. Fighter sweeps over N New Britain and New Ireland Islands
    continue; many targets of opportunity are strafed.
      370th, 371st, 372d and 424th Bombardment Squadrons (Heavy), 307th
    Bombardment Group (Heavy), move from Munda, New Georgia Island, Solomon
    Islands and Guadalcanal Island (424th Bomb Squadron) to Los Negros Island
    with B-24s.

    SOUTHWEST PACIFIC AREA (SWPA, Fifth Air Force): In New Guinea, B-24s hit
    dispersal areas on Jaspen Island, supply areas and AA guns at Bosnik and
    airfields at Sorido, Namber and near the Moemi River; B-24s and B-25s hit
    airfields in the Wakde-Maffin-Sawar-Arare area; 200+ fighter-bombers, A-20s,
    and B-25s thoroughly pound airfields, bridges, fuel dumps, vehicles,
    villages, AA guns, and supply areas in the Wewak-Hansa Bay area; and 89th
    Bombardment Squadron (Light), 3d Bombardment Group (Light), moves from Nadzab
    to Hollandia with A-20s.

    SUNDAY, 14 MAY 1944

    CHINA-BURMA-INDIA (CBI) THEATER OF OPERATIONS

      BURMA-INDIA (Tenth Air Force): In Burma, 12 P-38s hit Tiddim road at
    Tonzang, causing a roadblock; 11 P-40s hit a bridge and road at Kazu and
    railroad shed at Myitkyina; 25 B-25s and P-51s hit troop positions at Hopin;
    Meiktila and Heho Airfields are hit by 20+ P-51s and P-38s; the fighters
    claim 4 aircraft downed in combat; and 528th Fighter-Bomber Squadron, 311th
    Fighter-Bomber Group, moves from Dinjan, India to Tingkawk Sakan with P-51s.

      CHINA (Fourteenth Air Force): In China, 60 P-40s and P-51s hit trucks at
    Yoyang, river shipping, boxcars, and trucks at Pailochi and Sienning and
    a storage area at Shayang; 20 other P-40s bomb and strafe towns near Mamien
    Pass, Pingkai and areas around Mengta and Tating; 6 Japanese bombers hit
    Kienow, rendering the airfield temporarily unusable.

    EUROPEAN THEATER OF OPERATIONS (ETO)

      STRATEGIC OPERATIONS (Eighth Air Force): 435th Fighter Squadron, 479th
    Fighter Group, arrives at Wattisham, England from the US with P-38Js; first
    mission is 26 May.

      TACTICAL OPERATIONS (Ninth Air Force): 404th Fighter Squadron, 371st
    Fighter Group, stops operating from Ibsley, England with P-47s and returns to
    base at Bisterne.

    MEDITERRANEAN THEATER OF OPERATIONS (MTO)

      STRATEGIC OPERATIONS (Fifteenth Air Force): Just over 700 bombers attack
    targets in Italy; B-17s hit marshalling yards at Ferrara and Mantua and an
    air depot at Piacenza; B-24s hit Vicenza marshalling yard and air depots at
    Piacenza and Reggio Emilia; fighters fly 170+ sorties in escort; 48 P-38s
    strafe Aviano and Villaorba airfields.
      HQ 52d Fighter Group and 4th and 5th Fighter Squadrons move from Corsica to
    Madna Airfield, Italy with P-51s.

      TACTICAL OPERATIONS (Twelfth Air Force): In Italy, support for the Allied
    ground assault into the Gustav Line continues as aircraft hit at lines of
    communications N and NW of Rome and blast targets in the immediate battle
    area; medium bombers claim hits on bridges, bridge approaches, and viaducts
    at Chiani, Marsciano, Monte Molino. Castiglione d'Orcia, San Giovanni
    Valdarno, Poggibonsi, Tabianello and Arezzo; A-20s pound command posts in the
    battle area; fighter-bombers hit stations, tracks, roads, town areas,
    bridges, gun positions and targets of opportunity in the immediate battle
    area and in or near Esperia, Terni, Narni, Itri, Terracina, Perugia, Chiusi,
    Orvieto, San Giovanni Valdarno, Maranola and other locations N of Rome.

    PACIFIC OCEAN AREA (POA, Seventh Air Force): 53 B-24s from Kwajalein Atoll
    and 43 B-25s from Makin Island join USN aircraft in pounding Jaluit Atoll.

    SOUTH PACIFIC AREA (SOPAC, Thirteenth Air Force): On New Britain Island, 23
    B-25s bomb Tobera Airstrip; 44 fighter-bombers pound supply and personnel
    areas at Vunakanau; P-39s and P-40s strafe targets in N and E Gazelle
    Peninsula, and fighter patrols over Rabaul area attack several targets of
    opportunity. In the Buka-Bougainville Island area, 40+ P-39s and P-40s bomb
    Hangan, Tsirogei, Tokiparo, a pier at Kessa Plantation, and near Ibu.

    SOUTHWEST PACIFIC AREA (SWPA, Fifth Air Force): In New Guinea, B-24s bomb
    Bosnik supply areas and Sorido runway; in the Wakde-Sawar-Maffin Bay area,
    villages and AA positions are pounded by B-24s and B-25s; fighter-bombers,
    A-20s, B-24s and B-25s maintain strikes against airfields, bridges, trucks,
    villages, and other targets in the Wewak-Hansa Bay area.

    MONDAY, 15 MAY 1944

    CHINA-BURMA-INDIA (CBI) THEATER OF OPERATIONS

      BURMA-INDIA (Tenth Air Force): In Burma, 19 B-25s pound targets of
    opportunity along the Tiddim road; 20+ B-25s and fighter-bombers hit gun
    positions at Hopin and the airfield at Myitkyina; 17 P-38s attack Heho and
    Kangaung Airfield, claiming 15 aircraft destroyed, most of them in the air; 7
    B-24s bomb Myitkyina, Kalewa and Mandalay.

      CHINA (Fourteenth Air Force): B-25s strike Kengluang bridge, Siam and hit
    installations near Wan Pa-Hsa, Burma. P-40s strafe troops near Pingkai,
    Burma, and along Mamien Pass and in the Mengta area of China.  92d Fighter
    Squadron, 81st Fighter Group, moves from Karachi, India to Kwanghan, China
    with P-47s; first mission is 1 Jun.

    EUROPEAN THEATER OF OPERATIONS (ETO)

      STRATEGIC OPERATIONS (Eighth Air Force): Mission 356: 166 bombers and 104
    fighters hit V-weapon sites in France with 1 fighter lost; 38 of 58 B-17s
    bomb Marquise/Mimoyecques with 5 B-17s damaged; 90 of 108 B-24s bomb
    Siracourt with 8 B-24s damaged; escort is provided by 104 P-51s with 1 lost
    (pilot is MIA).
      Mission 357: 3 of 3 B-17s drop 1.1 million leaflets on 10 towns in
    Belgium and France; 1 B-17 crash lands on returning to base, 1 airman is
    KIA, 3 WIA.
      5 B-24s are dispatched on CARPETBAGGER operations.
      HQ 479th Fighter Group and 434th and 436th Fighter Squadrons arrive at
    Wattisham, England from the US with P-38Js; first mission is 26 May.

      TACTICAL OPERATIONS (Ninth Air Force): In France, 45 A-20s and B-26s bomb
    airfields at Creil and Evreux/Fauville and Somain marshalling yard; 300+
    others are forced to abandon missions because of thick clouds.

    MEDITERRANEAN THEATER OF OPERATIONS (MTO)

      STRATEGIC OPERATIONS (Fifteenth Air Force): Weather cancels all operations
    except fighter a sweep over the Toulon-Marseille, France area.

      TACTICAL OPERATIONS (Twelfth Air Force): In Italy, medium and light bombers
    again hit communications lines N and NW of the front while fighter-bombers in
    close support of the Allied ground assault through the Gustav Line blast gun
    positions, motor transport, ammunition supplies, bridges, rolling stock and
    other military targets in the battle area; medium and light bombers also hit
    harbors and vessels along coasts at Piombino, Talamone, Portoferraio and
    Ancona.

    PACIFIC OCEAN AREA (POA, Seventh Air Force): Operations are limited to photo
    reconnaissance of Jaluit Atoll from Kwajalein Atoll.

    SOUTH PACIFIC AREA (SOPAC, Thirteenth Air Force): On Bougainville Island, 24
    B-25s and 40+ P-40s, P-38s, and P-39s, along with TBFs and SBDs, pound the
    area N of Muguai and hit the Maika area between Muguai and Ebery's Lease;
    40+ fighters on sweeps over Bougainville and Shortland Islands, Solomon
    Islands, attack AA positions, trucks and huts at several locations including
    the Kieta, Cape Friendship and Chabai areas. On New Britain Island, Allied
    fighter sweeps continue over the Rabaul area; several targets of opportunity,
    including a concentration of barges in Keravia Bay, are hit.

    SOUTHWEST PACIFIC AREA (SWPA, Fifth Air Force): In New Guinea, the Wewak-
    Hansa Bay area is again hit by A-20s, B-24s and fighter-bombers; B-24s and
    B-25s attack numerous targets in the Wakde-Sawar-Sarmi-Maffin Bay areas and
    on Biak Island; and HQ 475th Fighter Group and 431st, 432d and 433d Fighter
    Squadrons move from Nadzab to Hollandia with P-38s. Thirteenth Air Task Force
    B-24s from Los Negros Island bomb supply and bivouac areas on Mariaon and
    Tagaulap Islands and AA guns on Woleai and Paliau Islands, all in Woleai
    Atoll.

    TUESDAY, 16 MAY 1944

    CHINA-BURMA-INDIA (CBI) THEATER OF OPERATIONS

      BURMA-INDIA (Tenth Air Force): In Burma, about 70 B-25s and fighter-bombers
    hit the Myitkyina and Hogin areas; 11 B-24s hit Ywataung and Sagaing
    marshalling yards and the town of Akyab.

      CHINA (Fourteenth Air Force): 8 B-24s blast the motor pool and warehouse
    areas at Mangshih.

    MEDITERRANEAN THEATER OF OPERATIONS (MTO)

      STRATEGIC OPERATIONS (Fifteenth Air Force): 2d Fighter Squadron, 52d
    Fighter Group, moves from Corsica to Madna Airfield, Italy with P-51s.

      TACTICAL OPERATIONS (Twelfth Air Force): In Italy, medium bombers attack
    railroad bridges and a tunnel in C Italy; light bombers blast guns in
    Roccasecca while fighter-bombers and fighters just behind enemy lines seek
    out motor transport targets, crater roads and hit bridges, harassing the
    already strained communications network, while US Fifth Army troops push
    rapidly W and NW and British Eighth Army forces push through the last
    defenses of the Gustav Line in an effort to isolate Cassino, a joint effort
    by British 13 Corps and Polish 2 Corps.

    PACIFIC OCEAN AREA (POA, Seventh Air Force): Kwajalein Atoll-based B-24s
    pound Wake Island. B-25s from Makin Island hit Nauru and Ponape Islands.

    SOUTH PACIFIC AREA (SOPAC, Thirteenth Air Force): On New Britain Island, 40+
    fighter-bombers hit the Vunakanau area; fighters on sweeps hit barges at
    Jacquinot Bay and Mioko Harbour, vehicles at Kurakakaul, Mandres Bay and
    Vunarima, and N of Vunakanau, a small vessel in Mandres Bay and a sawmill at
    Keravat. On Bougainville Island, fighter-bombers hit occupied areas at
    Tunuru, near Kieta and Manetai Mission, and at Tinputs.

    SOUTHWEST PACIFIC AREA (SWPA, Fifth Air Force): In New Guinea, aircraft
    continue to pound a variety of targets including airfields and supply areas
    on Noemfoor and Biak Islands, AA guns, supplies and occupied villages in the
    Wakde Island-Maffin-Sawar coastal area, and bridges, villages, troop
    concentrations and AA positions; 8th Bombardment Squadron (Light), 3d
    Bombardment Group (Light), moves from Nadzab to Hollandia with A-20s; and 9th
    Fighter Squadron, 49th Fighter Group, moves from Gusap to Hollandia with
    P-47s.

    WEDNESDAY, 17 MAY 1944

    CHINA-BURMA-INDIA (CBI) THEATER OF OPERATIONS

      BURMA-INDIA (Tenth Air Force): In Burma, 18 B-25s bomb Chauk oil
    installations while 20 P-38s hit Kangaung Airfield; B-25s and fighter-bombers
    fly 90 sorties against Mogaung Valley targets, hitting targets of opportunity
    at Kazu and Namti and a bridge at Kamaing and supporting ground forces in the
    Myitkyina area.

      CHINA (Fourteenth Air Force): In China, P-40s support ground forces at
    Mamien Pass, hit Japanese positions at Tatangtzu, damage a bridge and several
    trucks at Shweli, Burma, strafe troops at Luchiangpa and bomb and strafe
    a horse pack train near Tengchung; 7 B-25s and 13 P-40s pound the Shayang
    barracks area and hit troops and vehicles NE of Shasi.

    EUROPEAN THEATER OF OPERATIONS (ETO)

      TACTICAL OPERATIONS (Ninth Air Force): 30th Photographic Reconnaissance
    Squadron, 10th Photographic Group (Reconnaissance), moves from Chalgrove to
    Middle Wallop, England with F-5s.

    MEDITERRANEAN THEATER OF OPERATIONS (MTO)

      STRATEGIC OPERATIONS (Fifteenth Air Force): 450+ bombers hit targets in
    Italy and Yugoslavia; the B-17s bomb the marshalling yard at Ancona, Italy
    and troop concentrations at Bihac, Yugoslavia; the B-24s bomb the port areas
    at San Stefano al Mare, Piombino, Portoferraio and Orbetello, Italy; P-38s
    strafe airfields at Ghedi, Villafranca di Verona, Modena, Forli and Reggio
    Emilia, Italy while other fighters fly 130+ sorties of escort duty.

      TACTICAL OPERATIONS (Twelfth Air Force): In Italy, operations continue in
    support of the Allied ground assault; B-26s bomb road bridges in the
    immediate battle area with generally fair results; roads are blocked in
    Frosinone; B-25s bomb the landing ground at Viterbo while A-20s bomb a
    command post near Valmontone and drop supplies to French troops on Monte
    Revole; fighter-bombers hit railroads, bridges, trucks, and gun positions
    behind and along the battle front with good results, destroying or severely
    damaging 6 bridges, creating road blocks in the towns of Vallecorsa and Pico,
    blasting gun emplacements at Cassino and hitting numerous targets of
    opportunity.

    PACIFIC OCEAN AREA (POA, Seventh Air Force): B-24s from Kwajalein Atoll bomb
    Wake Island while Engebi Island-based B-25s hit Ponape Island.

    SOUTH PACIFIC AREA (SOPAC, Thirteenth Air Force): On New Britain Island, 25
    B-25s bomb the airfield at Tobera while 43 P-39s, P-40s and P-38s, in
    conjunction with 40+ USN dive bombers, blast the Vunakanau area; fighters on
    sweeps hit a Nubai River bridge and strafe targets on Gazelle Peninsula. 39
    fighter-bombers hit numerous targets in Bougainville Island area, including
    the Muguai area, a bridge N of Numa Numa, barges at Banin Harbor and the area
    around Ratsua.

    SOUTHWEST PACIFIC AREA (SWPA, Fifth Air Force): In New Guinea, Allied forces
    land without opposition near Arare after a naval bombardment; B-24s and B-25s
    hit targets in the general vicinity at Sawar, Sarmi and the mouth of the Orai
    River; 100+ B-24s, with P-38 escort, pound AA positions at Bosnik, Sorido and
    Mokmer, and supply areas and airfield on Noemfoor Island; 120+ fighter-
    bombers, A-20s, B-25s and B-24s continue to hit the Wewak-Hansa Bay area; and
    HQ 49th Fighter Group moves from Finschhafen to Hollandia.

    THURSDAY, 18 MAY 1944

    AMERICAN THEATER OF OPERATIONS

      ALASKA (Eleventh Air Force): Over the Kurile Islands, a B-24 on weather
    reconnaissance attacks a Japanese aircraft and 2 B-25s sink an auxiliary
    vessel; another is sunk shortly before 2400 hours by 2 other B-25s.

    CHINA-BURMA-INDIA (CBI) THEATER OF OPERATIONS

      BURMA-INDIA (Tenth Air Force): In Burma, 140+ fighter-bombers and 6 B-25s
    pound numerous targets throughout the Mogaung Valley, concentrating on
    bridges (at least 4 are knocked out) and support of ground forces in areas
    around Myitkyina, Nanyaseik, Kamaing, Namkwin, Kazu, Lonkin and Katkyo; 8
    B-25s knock out a Mu River bridge and damage Chaungu bridge approaches; 12
    P-38s destroy several aircraft at Shwebo.

      CHINA (Fourteenth Air Force): In China, 6 B-25s and 12 P-40s pound barracks
    and warehouse areas at Chienyangi, causing many fires; 30 P-40s support
    ground forces in the Salween area, hitting troops and positions at Tengchung,
    Tatangtzu, Mamien Pass and Luchiangpa; 12 B-24s bomb the towns of Lungling
    and Tengchung; 25 CACW and Chinese Air Force (CAF) P-40s attack trucks, armor
    and troops at Chueh-shan and Loning, causing widespread destruction.

    MEDITERRANEAN THEATER OF OPERATIONS (MTO)

      STRATEGIC OPERATIONS (Fifteenth Air Force): Almost 450 bombers, mostly with
    fighter escort, hit targets in Rumania and Yugoslavia; both B-17s and B-24s
    bomb the industrial area at Ploesti, Rumania and the marshalling yard at
    Belgrade, Yugoslavia; the B-17s also hit the marshalling yard at Nis,
    Yugoslavia; 300+ other bombers abandon the missions because of bad weather;
    fighters strafe airfields at Nis and Scutari, Yugoslavia.

      TACTICAL OPERATIONS (Twelfth Air Force): In Italy, medium bombers continue
    to hit rail bridges, bombing farther into the N of Italy and thus putting
    more pressure on the strained German communications system; light bombers hit
    storage areas; fighter-bombers continue close support to Allied ground
    forces, hitting town areas, roads, enemy positions, railroads and numerous
    other targets in the battle area, including points in or around Pico,
    Pontecorvo. Fondi, Terracina, Ceccano, Pastena, San Giovanni Valdarno,
    Perugia, Terni, Spoleto, Sant' Elpidio a Mare, Pedaso and N of Rome, as the
    British Eighth Army completes the reduction of the Gustav Line in the Liri
    River Valley with the capture of Cassino, while the US Fifth Army takes
    Formia.

    PACIFIC OCEAN AREA (POA, Seventh Air Force): B-25s based on Makin Island
    bomb Taroa Island, Maloelap Atoll, rearm at Majuro Atoll and attack the same
    target during the return flight to base.

    SOUTH PACIFIC AREA (SOPAC, Thirteenth Air Force): On Bougainville Island, 10
    P-39s hit barges off Porton; 40+ P-38s and P-39s pound a supply area N of
    Mupuai.

    SOUTHWEST PACIFIC AREA (SWPA, Fifth Air Force): In New Guinea, 100+ fighter-
    bombers, A-20s, B-25s and B-24s pound targets of opportunity in the Wewak-
    Hansa Bay area throughout the day; and 68th Troop Carrier Squadron, 433d
    Troop Carrier Group, based at Nadzab sends a detachment to operate from Tadji
    with C-47s.  B-24s hit targets of opportunity on Halmahera Island, Moluccas
    Islands and bomb Bosnik. B-25s hit Larot, Celebes Islands and Saumlakki,
    Tanimbar Island, Moluccas Islands.

    FRIDAY, 19 MAY 1944

    AMERICAN THEATER OF OPERATIONS

      ALASKA (Eleventh Air Force): A B-24 flies armed reconnaissance over
    Shimushu and Ketoi Islands, Kurile Islands.

    CHINA-BURMA-INDIA (CBI) THEATER OF OPERATIONS

      BURMA-INDIA (Tenth Air Force): In Burma, A-36s, P-40s, P-51s and a few
    B-25s fly 140+ attack sorties against various targets in the Mogaung Valley,
    concentrating on gun positions in the Myitkyina area; 8 B-25s damage railroad
    tracks in the Myingatha-Saye area and 16 P-38s hit the airfield at Nawnghkio.

      CHINA (Fourteenth Air Force): In China, 31 fighters support ground forces
    in the Salween area at Chiangtso, Watien, and Mamien Pass; 4 P-40s knock out
    a bridge at Shweli, Burma, 13 P-40s bomb and strafe the Puchi area and 16
    P-40s and P-38s damage a bridge at Tayeh and hit military installations and
    other buildings at Yangsin; 11 P-51s bomb a village near Anking, causing
    large explosions and fires; 2 B-24s on a sea sweep seriously damage 2
    freighters S of Hong Kong; 16 CACW P-40s pound trucks, tanks and troops in
    the Ichang-Tangyang-Loyang area and attack river traffic at Itu on the
    Yangtze River.

    EUROPEAN THEATER OF OPERATIONS (ETO)

      STRATEGIC OPERATIONS (Eighth Air Force): Mission 358: 888 bombers and 700
    fighters are dispatched to hit targets in Germany; very heavy cloud cover
    forces the bombers to use H2X PFF methods; Luftwaffe resistance is heavy and
    28 bombers and 19 fighters are lost; the fighters claim 77-0-33 Luftwaffe
    aircraft:
      1. 588 B-17s are dispatched to Berlin; 495 hit the primary, 49 hit the port
    area at Kiel and 1 hits a target of opportunity; 16 B-17s are lost, 2 damaged
    beyond repair and 289 damaged; 3 airmen are KIA, 16 WIA and 137 MIA.
      2. 300 B-24s are dispatched to the industrial area at Brunswick; 272 hit
    the primary and 1 bombs a target of opportunity; 12 B-24s are lost and 64
    damaged; 1 airman is KIA, 8 WIA and 119 MIA.
      Escort is provided by 155 P-38s, 182 P-47s and 363 P-51s of the Eighth Air
    Force and 264 Ninth Air Force aircraft; the P-38s claim 0-0-2 Luftwaffe
    aircraft in the air and 1-0-0 on the ground, the P-47s claim 29-0-16 in the
    air and 2-0-0 on the ground and the P-51s claim 41-0-5 in the air and 4-0-10
    on the ground; 4 P-38s, 4 P-47s and 11 P-51s are lost; 2 P-38s are damaged
    beyond repair; 5 P-38s, 4 P-47s and 7 P-51s are damaged; 17 pilots are MIA.

      TACTICAL OPERATIONS (Ninth Air Force): In France, about 290 B-26s and A-20s
    bomb coastal defenses, port area, railway battery, and NOBALL (V-weapon)
    targets; 125+ others fail to bomb because of extremely thick haze; about 300
    P-47s dive-bomb targets.

    MEDITERRANEAN THEATER OF OPERATIONS (MTO)

      STRATEGIC OPERATIONS (Fifteenth Air Force): 500+ bombers hit communications
    targets, ports, and oil storage in NE, C, and, W Italy; B-17s hit oil storage
    facilities at Porto Marghera and railroad bridges at Casarea, Latisana and
    Rimini; B-24s hit port areas at La Spezia and Leghorn; fighters fly 250+
    sorties in support. These operations are notable for the absence of enemy
    fighter opposition.

      TACTICAL OPERATIONS (Twelfth Air Force): In Italy, medium bombers hit
    railroad bridges in NC Italy while light bombers bomb an ammunition dump;
    fighter-bombers continue support to Allied forces advancing rapidly N and W,
    blasting the road network in the battle area and hitting motor transport,
    bridges, town areas, and targets of opportunity, in areas around San Giovanni
    Valdarno, Pastena, Vallecorsa, Terracina, Fondi, Pistoia and elsewhere.

    PACIFIC OCEAN AREA (POA, Seventh Air Force): B-25s based on Engebi Island hit
    Ponape Island and B-25s from Makin Island hit Nanru Island.

    SOUTH PACIFIC AREA (SOPAC, Thirteenth Air Force): 40+ P-39s, P-38s and P-40s
    hit Makada Island, Bismarck Archipelago. 16 B-25s bomb gun positions and
    supply area at Talili Bay, New Britain Island. On Bougainville Island, 20 AAF
    fighters and a few USN aircraft bomb huts and bridges at Monoitu, Porton,
    Toborei, Moisuru and Tsimba.

    SOUTHWEST PACIFIC AREA (SWPA, Fifth Air Force): In New Guinea, B-24s, A-20s
    and P-38s hit airfields and shipping in the Manokwari-Noemfoor Island area;
    other B-24s pound beach defenses at Bosnik on Biak Island and hit the area
    between Bosnik and Mokmer; 270+ A-20s, P-47s, P-38s and B-25s continue to
    blast Wewak, knocking out radar and radio stations and attack targets of
    opportunity from Wewak to the Hansa Bay area.

    SATURDAY, 20 MAY 1944

    CHINA-BURMA-INDIA (CBI) THEATER OF OPERATIONS

      BURMA-INDIA (Tenth Air Force): In Burma, 100+ A-36s, P-40s and P-51s pound
    gun positions, attack bridges, bomb troops and hit numerous targets of
    opportunity in areas around Myitkyina, Kamaing, Nanyaseik, and Nsopzup; 16
    RAF Vengeances and 2 P-38s hit targets in the Arakan area, including a signal
    center SE of Buthidaung, gun positions SE of Maungdaw and a jetty at Akyab;
    about 40 B-24s and P-51s hit oil installations at Yenangyaung and Chauk,
    airfield at Pakokku, and town of Akyab. In India, HQ 1st Air Commando Group
    moves from Hailakandi to Asansol; the group consists of the following
    sections:  bomber (B-25s), fighter (P-51s), light-plane (L-1 & L-5),
    transport (C-47), glider (CG-4) and light-cargo (UC-64); the bomber section
    is eliminated and after converting from P-51s to P-47s, the group begins a
    training program; a detachment of 9th Photographic Reconnaissance Squadron,
    8th Photographic Reconnaissance Group, operating from Dinjan since Sep 43
    returns to base at Barrackpore with F-5s.

      CHINA (Fourteenth Air Force): In China, 19 B-24s attack a convoy S of Hong
    Kong claiming 2 motor launches sunk and damaging several larger vessels; 3
    B-24s are lost at sea; 37 P-40s hit trucks, armored vehicles, river traffic
    and troops in or near Shasi, Ichang, Tangyang, Chingmen, Loyang and Loning;
    on the Salween front 43 fighters and 8 B-25s support ground forces and damage
    a bridge N of Tengchung over the Shweli River.

    EUROPEAN THEATER OF OPERATIONS (ETO)

      STRATEGIC OPERATIONS (Eighth Air Force): Mission 359: 638 bombers and 657
    fighters are dispatched to hit targets in France and Belgium; 2 bombers and 4
    fighters are lost; AAF claims 2-0-1 Luftwaffe aircraft in the air and 1-0-1
    on the ground:
      1. 190 B-17s are dispatched to bomb Orly Airfield (90 bomb) and
    Villacoublay Air Depot (73 bomb) in France; 4 B-17s are damaged beyond repair
    and 48 damaged; 20 airmen are KIA and 6 WIA.
      2. 125 of 177 B-24s bomb Reims Airfield and marshalling yard in France; 5
    B-24s are damaged.
      3. 271 B-17s and B-24s are dispatched to marshalling yards at Liege and
    Brussels, Belgium but the mission is abandoned due to heavy cloud cover; 2
    bombers are lost, 4 damaged beyond repair and 41 damaged; 17 airmen are KIA,
    16 WIA and 17 MIA.
      Escort is provided by 146 P-38s, 177 P-47s and 334 P-51s; P-38s claim 2-0-1
    Luftwaffe aircraft in the air and 1-0-1 on the ground; 1 P-38, 1 P-47 and 2
    P-51s are lost; 5 P-38s are damaged; 4 pilots are MIA.

      TACTICAL OPERATIONS (Ninth Air Force): Around 450 B-26s attack airfields,
    coastal defenses, and V-weapon site in France; about 250 aborts are caused
    mainly by bad cloud conditions and failure to rendezvous with fighters. P-47s
    dive-bomb targets in NW Europe.
      423d Night Fighter Squadron, 10th Photographic Group (Reconnaissance),
    moves from Chormy Down to Chalgrove, England with F-3s and A-20s; the 423d
    will be redesignated 155th Photographic Reconnaissance Squadron on 22 Jun.

    MEDITERRANEAN THEATER OF OPERATIONS (MTO)

      STRATEGIC OPERATIONS (Fifteenth Air Force):

      TACTICAL OPERATIONS (Twelfth Air Force): In Italy, weather prevents
    operations by medium and light bombers; fighter-bombers continue to hit
    communications and gun positions in the battle area; areas in and around
    Vallecorsa and Terracina are hit especially hard; fighters maintain patrols
    and reconnaissance, destroying or damaging numerous vehicles between Pisa and
    Pistoia.

    PACIFIC OCEAN AREA (POA, Seventh Air Force): B-25s from Engebi Island bomb
    Ponape Island.

    SOUTH PACIFIC AREA (SOPAC, Thirteenth Air Force): On Bougainville Island, 22
    B-25s, 44 P-39s, P-40s, and P-38s and 30+ USN and US Marine Corps (USMC)
    aircraft pound AA positions, bivouacs and supply areas from the Muguai-
    Ebery's Lease area to the Maika area; 24 other P-39s hit barges in Matchin
    Bay, AA guns on Sohano Island, and bridges at Kieta. On New Britain Island,
    3 B-24s bomb the Tobera runway.

    SOUTHWEST PACIFIC AREA (SWPA, Fifth Air Force): In New Guinea, B-24s, A-20s
    and B-25s hit airstrips, revetments, supply area, AA positions and shipping
    at Manokwari, Noemfoor and Biak Islands, and Mawi Bay; A-20s, B-25s and
    fighter-bombers continue to pound airfields, coastal villages, bridges,
    supply dumps, trucks and various other targets at Wewak and from Wewak to the
    shore of Hansa Bay.

    SUNDAY, 21 MAY 1944

    CHINA-BURMA-INDIA (CBI) THEATER OF OPERATIONS

      BURMA-INDIA (Tenth Air Force): In Burma,  120+ P-40s, P-51s, A-36s and
    B-25s hit Mogaung, Myitkyina, the Talawgyi-Hokat area, and Kamaing; gun
    positions  around Myitkyina and Mogaung are also hit; a single B-24 bombs NW
    part of Mandalay; 20th Tactical Reconnaissance Squadron, 8th Photographic
    Reconnaissance Group, based at Kisselbari, India with P-40s, sends a
    detachment to Tingkawk Sakan.

      CHINA (Fourteenth Air Force): 27th Troop Carrier Squadron, 443d Troop
    Carrier Group, moves from Sylhet, India to Yunnani, China; during the next
    nine months, detachments will operate from Chanyi, Chengtu and Kunming at
    various times.

    EUROPEAN THEATER OF OPERATIONS (ETO)

      STRATEGIC OPERATIONS (Eighth Air Force): Mission 360: 150 bombers and 48
    fighters hit V-weapon sites in France without loss; 25 of 40 B-17s hit
    Marquise/Mimoyecques and 13 B-17s are damaged; 99 of 110 B-24s hit Siracourt
    and 1 B-24 is damaged. Escort is provided by 48 P-47s without loss.
      617 fighters are dispatched on strafing missions to attack rail stock in
    Germany; 27 fighters are lost; 91 of 225 locomotives attacked are destroyed;
    P-47s also dive bomb rail bridges in W Germany; and 1 P-51 pilot claims 25
    cows killed; participating are:
      1. 145 P-38s claim 2-0-0 Luftwaffe aircraft in the air and 6-0-3 on the
    ground; 8 P-38s are lost, 2 damaged beyond repair and 12 damaged; 1 airman is
    KIA and 8 MIA.
      2. 139 P-47s claim 1-0-0 Luftwaffe aircraft in the air; 4 P-47s are lost
    and 21 damaged; 3 pilots are MIA.
      3. 333 P-51s claim 17-0-2 Luftwaffe aircraft in the air and 77-0-64 on the
    ground; 15 P-51s are lost, 1 damaged beyond repair and 20 damaged; 15 pilots
    are MIA.

      TACTICAL OPERATIONS (Ninth Air Force): In France 50 B-26s bomb airfields at
    Abbeville/Drucat; and 600+ P-47s and P-51s attack railroad rolling stock.
      404th Fighter Squadron, 371st Fighter Group, based at Bisterne, England,
    begins operating from Ibsley with P-47s.

    MEDITERRANEAN THEATER OF OPERATIONS (MTO)

      TACTICAL OPERATIONS (Twelfth Air Force): In NC Italy, medium bombers are
    restricted by bad weather but bomb a few bridges and roads, while light
    bombers hit a bivouac area; fighter-bombers continue support of ground
    forces, hitting troops, vehicles, roads and railroads in or near the battle
    areas, particularly around Sezze, Ceccano, San Giovanni Valdarno and
    Pontecorvo.

    PACIFIC OCEAN AREA (POA, Seventh Air Force): 53 B-24s from Kwajalein Atoll
    bomb various targets in Wotje Atoll; 41 B-25s, based on Makin Island, follow
    up with bombing, cannonading and strafing attack on the atoll. 8 B-24s stage
    through Eniwetok Atoll, strike Rota Island, Marianas Islands, and rearm at
    Los Negros Island.

    SOUTH PACIFIC AREA (SOPAC, Thirteenth Air Force): On New Britain Island, 3
    B-24s, 30+ P-39s and P-40s, and 40+ USN dive bombers hit Vunakanau Airfield
    and nearby plantation; 8 P-38s, followed shortly by USN aircraft, bomb
    Lakunai Airfield. 40+ P-39s, P-38s, and P-40s fly sweeps over Bougainville
    Island; bridges at Rigu Mission and Shishigatero are reported demolished.

    SOUTHWEST PACIFIC AREA (SWPA, Fifth Air Force): In New Guinea, B-24s, A-20s
    and P-38s attack airfields, town areas, barges, personnel and supply areas,
    and fuel dumps at Manokwari, Urarom, along the Moemi River and on Noemfoor
    and Biak Islands; fighter-bombers. A-20s and B-25s continue almost constant
    pounding of supply dumps, camps, AA positions and a variety of targets along
    the coast from Wewak to Hansa Bay; and 13th Bombardment Squadron (Light), 3d
    Bombardment Group (Light), moves from Nadzab to Hollandia with A-20s.
    Thirteenth Air Task Force B-24s bomb Truk Atoll.

    MONDAY, 22 MAY 1944

    AMERICAN THEATER OF OPERATIONS

      ALASKA (Eleventh Air Force): 2 Attu Island, Aleutian Island-based B-25s on
    a shipping strike near Paramushiru bomb and strafe a picket boat, which is
    left sinking.

    CHINA-BURMA-INDIA (CBI) THEATER OF OPERATIONS

      CHINA (Fourteenth Air Force): In China, 2 B-25s attack a large
    concentration of sampans in Honghai Bay; 2 others heavily damage a 150-ft
    (45.7 m) cargo vessel near Hong Kong; 22 P-51s pound the town of Anking and
    military area NE of Nanchang; 24 P-40s hit the Sienning area, bombing a
    factory W of town, damaging a bridge near town, and strafing numerous trucks
    in the vicinity; 23 P-40s hit road and river traffic in areas around Loyang,
    Loning, and Itu; and 5 P-40s bomb Yangsin.

    EUROPEAN THEATER OF OPERATIONS (ETO)

      STRATEGIC OPERATIONS (Eighth Air Force): Occupancy of all planned Eighth
    Air Force stations in Britain is completed with the transfer of the airfield
    at N Pickenham from the RAF to the Eighth; total stations number 77,
    including 66 airfields, occupied by 82 operational or HQ units.
      Mission 361: 438 bombers and 568 fighters are dispatched on PFF attacks to
    targets in Germany and France; 5 bombers and 7 fighters are lost:
      1. 342 are dispatched to the port area at Kiel, Germany; 289 hit the primary
    and 5 bomb targets of opportunity; 5 B-17s are lost, 1 damaged beyond repair
    and 209 damaged; 4 airmen are KIA, 3 WIA and 78 MIA.
      2. 94 of 96 B-24s hit V-weapon sites at Siracourt, France; 1 B-24 is
    damaged.
      Escort is provided by 145 P-38s, 95 P-47s and 328 P-51s; P-38s claim 8-1-5
    Luftwaffe aircraft, P-47s claim 12-1-2 and P-51s claim 2-2-1; 3 P-38s, 3
    P-47s and a P-51 are lost; 1 P-38 and 2 P-47s are damaged beyond repair; 1
    P-38, 2 P-47s and a P-51 are damaged; 6 pilots are MIA.
      130 P-47s are dispatched on a fighter-bomber attack railroad bridges at
    Hasselt and Liege, Belgium; 1 P-47 is lost and 1 damaged.
      Mission 363: 4 of 4 B-17s drop 320,000 leaflets on The Hague, Haarlem,
    Rotterdam and Utrecht, The Netherlands without loss.
      12 B-24s are dispatched on CARPETBAGGER missions without loss.

      TACTICAL OPERATIONS (Ninth Air Force): Around 330 B-26s and A-20s bomb
    airfields and other targets in the Cherbourg, Calais, and Paris areas of
    France while a like number of P-47s and P-51s dive-bomb marshalling yards,
    airfields and other targets in the same general areas.

    MEDITERRANEAN THEATER OF OPERATIONS (MTO)

      STRATEGIC OPERATIONS (Fifteenth Air Force): As weather again clears, 550+
    bombers attack communications and military targets in C and NW Italy; B-17s
    bomb the marshalling yard at Avezzano; B-24s hit port areas at Fano, Porto
    Civitanova and La Spezia; fighters fly 200+ sorties in escort to bombers;
    there is no fighter opposition.

      TACTICAL OPERATIONS (Twelfth Air Force): 332d Fighter Group with P-47s is
    transferred to the Fifteenth Air Force; this move, following a series of
    reassignments of fighter groups to the Fifteenth Air Force and to India,
    leaves the XII Fighter Command with only 1 fighter group.
      In Italy, medium bombers are inactive or abortive except for a raid on
    Cave; fighter-bombers maintain close support of the ground advance, hitting
    at motor transport, roads, and bridges in the battle areas and nearby points
    in C Italy, including Terracina, Ceccano, Sezze, Bastia, points between Rome
    and Bracciano Lake and near Balsorano.

    PACIFIC OCEAN AREA (POA, Seventh Air Force): 8 B-25s based on Engebi Island
    bomb Ponape Island. Weather cancels other strikes.

    SOUTH PACIFIC AREA (SOPAC, Thirteenth Air Force): 40+ P-39s, P-38s and P-40s
    hit targets of opportunity in the coastal area near Talili Bay on New Britain
    Island. 24 B-25s pound Mioko I, Bismarck Archipelago. On Bougainville Island,
    40+ P-39s bomb the Bonis supply area and blast 4 small bridges near Kieta.

    SOUTHWEST PACIFIC AREA (SWPA, Fifth Air Force): In New Guinea, B-24s and
    B-25s bomb Manokwari, shipping E of Cape Manggoear and storage areas and
    Sorido village on Biak Island; P-40s hit supply and fuel dumps, trucks and
    other targets of opportunity in the area of Wakde Island; B-24s, B-25s and
    fighter-bombers continue to bomb and strafe various targets in the Wewak-
    Hansa Bay area; and HQ 348th Fighter Group and 341st and 342d Fighter
    Squadrons move from Saidor to Wakde Island with P-47s.

    TUESDAY, 23 MAY 1944

    CHINA-BURMA-INDIA (CBI) THEATER OF OPERATIONS

      BURMA-INDIA (Tenth Air Force): In Burma, 12 P-38s bomb Tiddim road; 12
    B-24s bomb the Indaw marshalling yard and Homalin; 16 P-38s attack Kangaung
    Airfield; and 23 P-40s and 4 A-36s bomb gun positions, troops and supply
    dumps in the Myitkyina area.

    EUROPEAN THEATER OF OPERATIONS (ETO)

      STRATEGIC OPERATIONS (Eighth Air Force): Mission 364: 1,045 bombers and 562
    fighters are dispatched to hit airfields and rail targets in France; 3
    bombers are lost:
      1. 580 B-17s are dispatched to the marshalling yard at Metz (34 bomb),
    Epinal (36 bomb) and Chaumont (54 bomb); airfields at Orleans/Bricy (17 bomb)
    and Chateaudun (18 bomb); secondary targets hit are marshalling yards at
    Saarbrucken, Germany (139 bomb), Bayon (12 bomb), the town of Neunkirchen,
    Germany (37 bomb), Caen/Carpiquet Airfield (18 bomb) and 12 hit targets of
    opportunity; 2 B-17s are lost, 2 damaged beyond repair and 50 damaged; 12
    airmen are KIA and 4 WIA.
      2. 465 B-24s are dispatched to hit airfields at Orleans/Bricy (167 bomb),
    Bourges (84 bomb), Avord (88 bomb) and Etampes/Mondesir (97 bomb); 1 aircraft
    hits a target of opportunity; 1 B-24 is lost, 1 damaged beyond repair and 33
    damaged; 10 airmen are KIA and 10 MIA.
      Escort is provided by 96 P-38s, 142 P-47s and 324 P-51s; none are lost and
    no Luftwaffe aircraft are claimed; 1 P47 is damaged beyond repair and 1 P-47
    and 1 P-51 are damaged; 644 Ninth Air Force fighters also participate with
    the loss of 2 P-38s and 2 P-47s.
      Mission 365: 103 P-51s are dispatched to bomb a railroad bridge at Hasselt,
    Belgium; 75 bomb escorted by 14 acting as top cover; 1 P-51 is lost, the
    pilot is MIA.
      Mission 366: 4 of 5 B-17s drop 928,000 leaflets on Belgium and The
    Netherlands without loss.
      7 B-24s are dispatched on CARPETBAGGER operations.

      TACTICAL OPERATIONS (Ninth Air Force): In France, 15 B-26s bomb the
    airfield at Beaumont-le-Roger in a predawn attack; during the afternoon 58
    B-26s bomb coastal batteries at Etretat/Sainte-Marie-Au-Bosc, Maisy and Mont
    Fleury; and 120+ P-38s strafe and bomb rolling stock in C France.

    MEDITERRANEAN THEATER OF OPERATIONS (MTO)

      STRATEGIC OPERATIONS (Fifteenth Air Force): In Italy, 300+ B-17s and B-24s
    concentrate attacks on troop concentrations and communications in the rear of
    the battle area, at Avezzano, Subiaco, Valmontone, Marino, Nemi and
    Grottaferrata; P-38s and P-51s provide escort; other P-38s, covered by P-47s,
    strafe the airfield at Ferrara.

      TACTICAL OPERATIONS (Twelfth Air Force): In Italy, medium bombers abort
    missions because of weather; light bombers hit communications between
    Cisterna di Roma and Campoleone; fighter-bombers actively support the general
    offensive of Allied ground forces in the Liri Valley and at Anzio where US
    and British forces break out of the beachhead; fighters on armed
    reconnaissance join in the attacks and numerous enemy vehicles, gun
    positions, transport routes and personnel are hit hard in areas in and around
    Terracina, Littoria, Norma, Marcigliana, Fara in Sabina, Borghetto, Arezzo
    and Civita Castellena; and a marshalling yard on the Empoli-Siena line is
    also hit.

    PACIFIC OCEAN AREA (POA, Seventh Air Force): Makin Island-based B-25s strike
    Jaluit Atoll. B-24s returning from Los Negros Island, where they landed after
    the raid on Rota on 21 May, bomb Ponape Island.

    SOUTH PACIFIC AREA (SOPAC, Thirteenth Air Force): On New Britain Island, 2
    B-24s bomb Tobera, while 32 B-25s and 40+ P-39s, P-38s and P-40s attack gun
    positions near Rabaul, near Lakunai and in the vicinity of Tunnel Hill Road.
    On Bougainville Island, 51 P-39s and 8 P-40s attack huts, barges, bridges and
    other targets of opportunity at several locations.

    SOUTHWEST PACIFIC AREA (SWPA, Fifth Air Force): In New Guinea, B-24s hit
    Manokwari while B-24s, A-20s and P-38s hit targets on Biak Island, including
    trucks at Borokoe, AA positions and control tower at Mokmer Airfield, the
    village of Sorido and offshore targets at Bransfari; P-40s hit troops on
    Wakde Island and on the Biri River; P-38s support ground forces in the Aitape
    area; A-20s, P-39s. B-24s and B-25s maintain bombing and strafing of the
    Wewak-Hansa Bay area.

    WEDNESDAY, 24 MAY 1944

    AMERICAN THEATER OF OPERATIONS

      ALASKA (Eleventh Air Force): 2 bombers fly weather and photo reconnaissance
    over Shimushu Island and bomb the Matsuwa Island area.

    CHINA-BURMA-INDIA (CBI) THEATER OF OPERATIONS

      BURMA-INDIA (Tenth Air Force): In Burma, 20+ P-40s in the Myitkyina
    vicinity destroy 8 barracks buildings and knock out a railway bridge and a
    machinegun post; a single B-24 bombs Gwa in the Arakan area.

    EUROPEAN THEATER OF OPERATIONS (ETO)

      STRATEGIC OPERATIONS (Eighth Air Force): Mission 367: 1,106 bombers and 602
    fighters are dispatched on visual attacks on airfields in the Paris area and
    PFF and visual bombing of Berlin; 33 bombers and 10 fighters are lost; the
    fighters claim 33-7-6 Luftwaffe aircraft:
      1. 616 B-17s are dispatched to Berlin; 464 hit the primary, 34 bomb Nauen,
    13 bomb Rechlin and 6 bomb targets of opportunity; 33 B-17s are lost, 1 is
    damaged beyond repair and 256 damaged; 4 airmen are KIA, 24 WIA and 482 MIA.
      2. 490 B-24s are dispatched to bomb airfields at Melun (168 bomb) and Orly
    (151 bomb); 58 bomb Pix Airfield and 23 comb Creil Airfield; 33 B-24s are
    damaged.
      Escort is provided by 144 P-38s, 178 P-47s and 280 P-51s; P-38s claim 6-0-2
    Luftwaffe aircraft and P-51s claim 27-7-4; 1 P-38, 1 P-47 and 8 P-51s are
    lost; 1 P-51 is damaged beyond repair; 1 P-38, 1 P-47 and 4 P-51s are
    damaged; 1 pilot is WIA and 10 MIA.
      Mission 368: 222 fighter are dispatched to attack rail bridges in France;
      1. 74 P-47s are dispatched to hit bridges at Creil (44 bomb) and Verberie
    (28 bomb); 1 P-47 is damaged.
      2. 124 P-51s, escorted by 24 P-51s, are dispatched to bomb bridges at
    Beaumont-sur-Oise (59 bomb) and Soissons (34 bomb); 29 also hit St.
    Leger/Albert Airfield; they claim 3-0-0 Luftwaffe aircraft in the air and
    2-0-1 on the ground; 3 P-51s are lost and 6 damaged; 1 pilot is WIA and 3
    MIA.
      Mission 369: 4 of 4 B-17s drop 2.54 million leaflets on France and Belgium
    without loss.
      3 B-24s are dispatched on CARPETBAGGER operations without loss.

      TACTICAL OPERATIONS (Ninth Air Force): In France, 450+ B-26s attack
    airfields, coastal defenses and V-weapon sites; and P-38s and P-47s dive-bomb
    4 landing fields.

    MEDITERRANEAN THEATER OF OPERATIONS (MTO)

      STRATEGIC OPERATIONS (Fifteenth Air Force): 620+ bombers attack targets in
    targets in Austria and Italy; B-17s bomb the Avisio, Italy railroad viaduct
    and Atzgersdorf, Austria aircraft components factory; B-24s bomb airfields at
    Wollersdorf, Bad Voslau, Graz and Munchendorf, Austria; escorting fighters
    fly 250+ sorties; enemy fighter opposition is especially heavy against the
    B-24s attacking Bad Voslau, downing 6 heavy bombers.

      TACTICAL OPERATIONS (Twelfth Air Force): In Italy, medium, light and
    fighter-bombers fly numerous sorties in support of the rapidly advancing
    ground forces and in attacks against rail lines, bridges and roads in NC
    Italy; medium bombers hit at least 5 bridges, create several road blocks and
    cause havoc in communications to the N of the battle area; light bombers
    blast a bivouac area; fighter-bombers have great success in attacks on motor
    transports, mainly in the battle area, and in conjunction with RAF aircraft
    destroy 300+ and damage as many more.

    PACIFIC OCEAN AREA (POA, Seventh Air Force): B-25s from Makin Island pound
    Wotje and Jaluit Atolls, using Majuro Atoll as a shuttle base for rearming
    between the strikes. B-25s based at Engebi Island hit Ponape Island.

    SOUTH PACIFIC AREA (SOPAC, Thirteenth Air Force): In the Rabaul area of New
    Britain Island, 19 P-38s, P-40s and 22 B-25s attack Hospital Point gun
    positions; 2 other B-25s hit the town of Rabaul; fighter patrols hit various
    targets of opportunity in the Rabaul area and S New Ireland Island. In the
    Solomon Islands, 51 P-39s, P-40s, and P-38s, and a single B-24, attack
    various targets on Buka-Bougainville Islands including Buka Airfield, E
    Bougainville coastal bridges, and Cape Lalahan radar station.

    SOUTHWEST PACIFIC AREA (SWPA, Fifth Air Force): In New Guinea, A-20s hit
    airfields at Namber and Kamiri; 200+ A-20s, P-38s, P-47s, P-39s and B-25s
    continue to blast targets of opportunity in the Wewak-Hansa Bay area
    throughout the day.

    THURSDAY, 25 MAY 1944

    AMERICAN THEATER OF OPERATIONS

      ALASKA (Eleventh Air Force): 1 Shemya Island, Aleutian Islands-based B-24
    flies reconnaissance and bombing mission in the C Kurile Islands; another
    B-24 aborts due to equipment failure.

    CHINA-BURMA-INDIA (CBI) THEATER OF OPERATIONS

      BURMA-INDIA (Tenth Air Force): In Burma, 28 P-38s sweep over the Mandalay
    area; 12 of them hit about 10 railroad cars near Shwebo, leaving them
    burning; B-24s hit targets in the Katha area, 6 of them bombing Indaw and 4
    bombing the Naba rail junction area.

    EUROPEAN THEATER OF OPERATIONS (ETO)

      STRATEGIC OPERATIONS (Eighth Air Force): Mission 370: 406 bombers and 604
    fighters make visual attacks on rail installations and airfields in Belgium
    and France; 4 bombers and 12 fighters are lost; the fighters claim 13-2-3
    Luftwaffe aircraft in the air and 3-0-5 on the ground; unless otherwise
    indicated, all targets are in France:
      1. 307 B-24s are dispatched to marshalling yards at Belfort (74 bomb) and
    Mulhouse (134 bomb); 12 hit Tonnere marshalling yard and 37 bomb Bretigny and
    1 bombs Dijon Airfields; 2 B-24s are lost and 57 damaged; 20 airmen are MIA.
      2. 320 B-17s are dispatched to Nancy/Essey Airfield (75 bomb) and
    marshalling yards at Metz (69 bomb), Saarguemines (36 bomb) and Blainville
    (36 bomb); 56 B-17s hit Thionville marshalling yard and 3 bomb Liege
    Airfield, Belgium; 14 B-17s are damaged.
      3. 103 B-24s bomb Montignies sur Sambre marshalling yard and 9 bomb Alos
    marshalling yard; 3 B-24s are damaged.
      4. In Belgium 247 B-17s are dispatched against marshalling yards at
    Brussels/Schaerbeck (52 bomb), Brussels/Midi (29 bomb) and Leige/Guillemines
    (50 bomb); other marshalling yards hit are Brussels/Melsbroek (18 bomb) and
    Liege/Renory (50 bomb); 2 B-18s are lost, 1 damaged beyond repair and 71
    damaged; 1 airman is KIA, 6 WIA and 28 MIA.
      5. 18 of 38 B-17s and 18 of 18 B-24s hit Fecamp gun battery without loss.
      6. 15 B-17s hit St Valery gun battery without loss.
    Escort is provided by 136 P-38s, 181 P-47s and 287 P-51s; P-38s claim 3-1-0
    Luftwaffe aircraft, 9 P-38s (pilots are MIA) are lost and 8 damaged; P-47s
    claim 4-1-2 Luftwaffe aircraft in the air and 3-0-5 on the ground, 6 P-47s
    are damaged; P-51s claim 6-0-1 Luftwaffe aircraft, 3 P-51s are lost (pilots
    are MIA) and 1 damaged.
      MISSION 371: 4 of 4 B-17s drop leaflets in France without loss.

      TACTICAL OPERATIONS (Ninth Air Force): 225+ B-26s attack bridges near
    Liege, Belgium and airfields at Lille/Nord and Monchy-Breton, France. About
    250 P-47s dive-bomb various targets in W Europe.

    MEDITERRANEAN THEATER OF OPERATIONS (MTO)

      STRATEGIC OPERATIONS (Fifteenth Air Force): 340+ bombers attack targets in
    France and Italy; B-17s attack the marshalling yard at Lyon, France; B-24s
    attack marshalling yards at Amberieux, Toulon and Givors, France, and in
    Italy, the port area at Monfalcone, airfield at Piancenza and industrial area
    at Porto Marghera; P-38s and P-51s fly 200+ sorties in support.

      TACTICAL OPERATIONS (Twelfth Air Force): Twelfth Air Force has it's most
    active day to date against enemy forces in Italy; some medium bombers
    continue to pound bridges in NC Italy, damaging several bridges and viaducts,
    while others join light and fighter-bombers in close support of ground troops
    in the battle area and behind enemy lines; motor transport N and S of Rome
    and N of Anzio is hit hard by the air attacks; US Fifth Army achieves a solid
    front with junction of VI Corps (Anzio force) and II Corps (advancing along W
    coast) during the morning near Borgo Grappa.

    PACIFIC OCEAN AREA (POA, Seventh Air Force): B-25s flying out of Engebi
    Island bomb Ponape Island.

    SOUTH PACIFIC AREA (SOPAC, Thirteenth Air Force): On New Britain Island, 3
    B-24s bomb Rabaul, Lakunai, and Rapopo; 8 P-38s hit Vulcan Crater barge
    hideout; 12 B-25s, clouded out of Vunakanau, hit the Talili Bay supply area.
    On Bougainville Island, 15 B-25s, 32 P-39s and P-40s, and 25 USN dive bombers
    hit supply areas at Porton; 4 other P-40s hit trucks at Monoitu Mission; 16
    P-39s attack several targets of opportunity, including the Cape Lalahan radar
    station.

    SOUTHWEST PACIFIC AREA (SWPA, Fifth Air Force): B-24s attack shipping at
    Halmahera Island and in New Guinea, hit Mokmer and targets in the Wakde area;
    90+ fighter-bombers, A-20s, B-25s, and B-24s pound numerous targets in the
    Wewak area. Units of the 71st Tactical Reconnaissance Group moving in New
    Guinea: air echelon of 17th Reconnaissance Squadron (Bombardment), from
    Finschhafen to Wakde Island with B-25s; 110th Tactical Reconnaissance
    Squadron, based at Gusap begins operating from Tadji with P-40s.

    FRIDAY, 26 MAY 1944

    AMERICAN THEATER OF OPERATIONS

      ALASKA (Eleventh Air Force): 2 B-24s off on an armed photo mission over
    Shimushu Island turn back due to mechanical troubles.

    CHINA-BURMA-INDIA (CBI) THEATER OF OPERATIONS

      CHINA (Fourteenth Air Force): In China, 23 P-40s sink several supply boats
    on the Yangtze River near Shihshow, strafe troops at Shasi, hit road traffic
    near Loyang and strafe pontoon bridges, supply dumps and troops at Shanhsien;
    7 P-40s bomb the town of Hsing-tzu; and 2 B-25s damage a small tanker N of
    Swatow.

    EUROPEAN THEATER OF OPERATIONS (ETO)

      STRATEGIC OPERATIONS (Eighth Air Force): Mission 372: 4 of 4 B-17s drop
    leaflets in The Netherlands without loss.
      P-38s participate in 2 sweep over The Netherlands for familiarization
    purposes without loss; 1 sweep consists of 30 aircraft, the second consists
    of 28 aircraft.

      TACTICAL OPERATIONS (Ninth Air Force): In France, nearly 400 B-26s and
    A-20s attack airfields at Beaumont-sur-Oise and Chartres and bridges at
    Vernon and Poissy; 108 P-47 and P-51 fighter-bombers hit a bridge at Oissel
    and airfields at Creil, Cormeilles-en-Vesin and Evreux/Fauville; P-47s and
    P-38s dive-bomb targets in NW Europe.
      425th Night Fighter Squadron, Ninth Air Force, arrives at Chormy Down,
    England from the US with P-61s; first mission is in Jul 44.

    MEDITERRANEAN THEATER OF OPERATIONS (MTO)

      STRATEGIC OPERATIONS (Fifteenth Air Force): Almost 700 bombers hit targets
    in France and Yugoslavia; B-17s bomb the marshalling yard at St Etienne,
    France; B-24s hit a bridge over the Var River, marshalling yards at Lyon/
    Vaise, Lyon/Mouche, Chambery, Grenoble and Nice, France and troop
    concentrations at Bihac, Yugoslavia; fighters escort the bombers and strafe
    and dive-bomb the airfield at Donji Zemunik, Yugoslavia.

      TACTICAL OPERATIONS (Twelfth Air Force): In Italy, medium bombers hit
    railway targets in the Florence area and bomb roads in the battle area with
    good results; light bombers hit Frascati; other medium bombers join fighter-
    bombers in an assault against motor transport achieving wide-spread enemy
    vehicle destruction, especially on the Rome-Bracciano road over which the
    enemy is pouring reinforcements S toward the battle area.

    PACIFIC OCEAN AREA (POA, Seventh Air Force): 45 B-25s, flying out of Makin
    Island, attack Emidj Island, Jaluit Atoll, Marshall Islands. 9 B-25s from
    Engebi Island fly a successful search mission for a downed B-25 crew in the
    vicinity of Ponape and Pakin Islands, Caroline Islands; after locating the
    survivors, later picked up by USN destroyer, the B-25s attack Pakin and
    Ponape Islands with cannon and machinegun fire.

    SOUTH PACIFIC AREA (SOPAC, Thirteenth Air Force): On New Britain Island, 24
    P-39s and P-40s hit the Rabaul area while 12 B-25s bomb supply areas at
    Talili Bay. 40+ P-39s and P-40s hit barges NW of Ballale Island, Solomon
    Islands, supply areas and other targets at Porton, and piers at Ratsua and
    Soraken, all on Bougainville Island.

    SOUTHWEST PACIFIC AREA (SWPA, Fifth Air Force): In New Guinea, B-24s bomb
    Biak Island while B-25s hit Wakde Island and nearby coastal areas; other
    B-25s bomb a variety of targets on Aroe Island; 100+ A-20s, B-25s and
    fighter-bombers continue to blast the coastal region around Wewak; villages
    and gun positions on Hansa Bay are also hit; and the 340th Fighter Squadron,
    348th Fighter Group, moves from Saidor to Wakde Island with P-47s.

    SATURDAY, 27 MAY 1944

    AMERICAN THEATER OF OPERATIONS

      ALASKA (Eleventh Air Force): 2 bombers fly weather and armed photo
    reconnaissance and bomb Ushishiru Island, Kurile Islands.

    CHINA-BURMA-INDIA (CBI) THEATER OF OPERATIONS

      BURMA-INDIA (Tenth Air Force): 15 B-24s bomb Pakokku and Nyaung-u, Burma.

      CHINA (Fourteenth Air Force): In China, 24 rocket-firing P-40s hit the
    barracks area W of Sinyang, military installations and trucks at Nanchang, and
    troops, trucks, barracks, and warehouse area in the Puchi vicinity.

    EUROPEAN THEATER OF OPERATIONS (ETO)

      STRATEGIC OPERATIONS (Eighth Air Force): Mission 373: 1,126 bombers and 710
    fighters are dispatched against rail targets in France and Germany and gun
    batteries in France; 24 bombers and 7 fighters are lost; the fighters claim
    35.5-1-5 aircraft in the air and 9-0-2 on the ground:
      1. 344 B-17s are dispatched to marshalling yards at Ludwigshafen (150 bomb)
    and Mannheim (125 bomb); 18 hit Lachen/Apeyerdorf, 19 hit the Mannheim area
    and 6 hit targets of opportunity; 12 B-17s are lost and 98 damaged; 2 airmen
    are KIA, 5 WIA and 114 MIA.
      2. 269 B-17s are dispatched to marshalling yards at Karlsruhe (98 bomb) and
    Strasbourg, France (49 bomb) and aviation factory at Strasbourg/Meinau,
    France (53 bomb); 7 B-17s are lost, 1 damaged beyond repair and 89 damaged; 1
    airman is KIA, 3 WIA and 70 MIA.
      3. 69 of 86 B-24s bomb aviation factory at Woippy, France; 3 others hit
    targets of opportunity; 1 airman is WIA.
      4. 369 B-24s are dispatched to marshalling yards at Saarbrucken (145 bomb),
    Neunkirchen (66 bomb) and Kons/Karthus (72 bomb); 3 others hit targets of
    opportunity; 5 B-24s are lost, 1 damaged beyond repair and 18 damaged; 3
    airmen are KIA, 4 WIA and 50 MIA.
      5. 36 of 40 B-17s bomb Fecamp gun battery, France without loss.
      6. 18 of 18 B-24s bomb St Valery, France without loss.
    Escort is provided by 170 P-38s, 238 P-47s and 302 P-51s; 1 P-38 is lost
    (pilot is MIA) and 1 damaged beyond repair; P-47s claim 1-0-1 Luftwaffe
    aircraft in the air and 2-0-0 on the ground without loss; P-51s claim
    34.5-1-4 aircraft in the air and 7-0-2 on the ground with the loss of 6
    P-51s (pilots are MIA), another is damaged beyond repair and 8 damaged. 425
    Ninth Air Force aircraft also support the mission; they claim 4-0-0 with the
    lost of 1.
      Mission 374: 24 of 24 P-47s hit a barge convoy between Willenstadt and
    Meerije, The Netherlands; 1 P-47 is damaged and 2 barges destroyed.
      Mission 375: 3 of 4 B-17s drop leaflets in Belgium and France without loss.
      788th and 850th Bombardment Squadrons (Heavy), VIII Air Force Composite
    Command attached to 801st Bombardment Group (Provisional), move from
    Rackheath and Cheddington respectively to Harrington, England with B-24s; the
    788th flies CARPETBAGGER missions over Europe and the 850th will commence
    these missions on 31 May.

      TACTICAL OPERATIONS (Ninth Air Force): About 590 B-26s attack railroad,
    bridges, and marshalling yards in France. P-47s bomb targets in NW Europe.

    MEDITERRANEAN THEATER OF OPERATIONS (MTO)

      STRATEGIC OPERATIONS (Fifteenth Air Force): Almost 700 bombers hit France;
    B-17s bomb the marshalling yard at Avignon; B-24s bomb airfields at
    Montpellier and Salon and marshalling yards at Nimes, Marseille/St Charles
    and Marseille/La Blancharde; escort is provided by P-38s and P-51s.

      TACTICAL OPERATIONS (Twelfth Air Force): In Italy, medium bombers
    concentrate their efforts against lines of communications in the Orvieto
    area; A-20s bomb a storage area; fighter-bombers pound a much reduced flow of
    motor transport behind enemy lines and hit railroads, gun positions, bridges,
    and targets of opportunity and behind the battle area, hitting targets at
    Subiaco, Sora, Tivoli, Frosinone, Capena, and Orvieto, W of Bracciano Lake,
    between Sulmona and San Benedetto de Marsi and at several other points.

    PACIFIC OCEAN AREA (POA, Seventh Air Force): 24 B-24s from Kwajalein Atoll
    and 52 B-25s from Engebi Island pound Ponape Island.

    SOUTH PACIFIC AREA (SOPAC, Thirteenth Air Force): On New Britain Island,
    about 200 AAF, USMC and USN aircraft (fighters, dive-bombers, and B-25s) are
    sent against gun positions on Hospital Point; 160+ aircraft bomb the targets
    with more than 90 tons (99.2 tonnes) of explosives, destroying or damaging
    several of the guns; other fighters hit targets of opportunity in the Rabaul
    area and a barge off SW New Ireland Island; and 4 B-24s bomb Tobera. On
    Bougainville Island, AAF fighters attack beached barges in the Chabai area
    and in Buka Passage, Aku and Nova Plantation and a bridge over the Oamai
    River; detachment of 419th Night Fighter Squadron, 18th Fighter Group,
    operating from Bougainville since Jan with P-61s, returns to base on
    Guadalcanal Island.

    SOUTHWEST PACIFIC AREA (SWPA, Fifth Air Force): In New Guinea, Babo Airfield
    and Biak Island are pounded by 170+ B-24s and B-25s; after the aerial and
    naval bombardment, Allied amphibious forces land on Biak in the Bosnik area,
    secure the beachhead, and gain control of a trail over ridges to the inland
    plateau to the N. About 170 A-20s, P-38s, P-40s and B-25s blast the Wewak
    area.

    SUNDAY, 28 MAY 1944

    AMERICAN THEATER OF OPERATIONS

      ALASKA (Eleventh Air Force): 2 B-24s fly reconnaissance and drop bombs on
    Shimushu and Matsuwa Islands. 1 B-25 and P-38s fly a guardship coverage
    mission, 2 other B-25s fly a negative anti-shipping sweep.

    CHINA-BURMA-INDIA (CBI) THEATER OF OPERATIONS

      BURMA-INDIA (Tenth Air Force): In Burma, 10 B-24s pound Kalemyo while 8
    B-25s hit Tiddim road; 50+ fighter-bombers and a few B-25s hit various
    targets at or near Mogaung, Myitkyina, Hopin and Sahmaw; 76 fighter-bombers
    and 24 B-25s bomb marshalling yards at Namma and Katha, hit several targets
    in the Mohnyin-Hopin area, and bomb a railroad between Naba and Namma. 530th
    Fighter-Bomber Squadron, 311th Fighter-Bomber Group, based at Dinjan, India
    with P-51s sends a detachment to operated from Kurmitola, India.

      CHINA (Fourteenth Air Force): In China, 14 P-40s in support of ground
    forces in the Salween area strafe oil storage at Hsiangta, bomb and strafe
    the Watien area, and destroy a bridge and damage another on the Shweli River
    N of Tengchung; and 2 B-25s sink a patrol boat and damage another near Saint
    John Island.

    EUROPEAN THEATER OF OPERATIONS (ETO)

      STRATEGIC OPERATIONS (Eighth Air Force): Mission 376: 1,341 bombers and 697
    fighters are dispatched to hit oil targets in Germany; 32 bombers and 9
    fighters are lost; they claim 64-30-31 Luftwaffe aircraft:
      1. 610 B-17s are dispatched against an oil targets at Ruhland/Schwarz-Heide
    (38 bomb) and aircraft factory at Dessau (12 bomb); secondary targets are
    aviation factories at Zwickau (15 bomb) and Leipzig (28 bomb); 14 bomber hit
    Bohlen, 15 hit Meissen, 19 hit Brandis/Polenz Wusten-Sachsen Airfield, 12 hit
    Frankfurt marshalling yard, 32 hit Ubigau, 20 hit Dessau, 4 hit Frankfurt, 5
    hit Camburg and 22 hit targets of opportunity; they claim 20-21-18 Luftwaffe
    aircraft; 17 B-17s are lost, 1 is damaged beyond repair and 107 damaged; 3
    airmen are KIA, 15 WIA and 155 MIA.
      2. 255 B-17s are dispatched to an oil dump at Konigsburg/Magdeburg (105
    bomb) and oil industry at Magdeburg/Rothensee (55 bomb); 17 hit Dessau and 6
    bomb the marshalling yard at Gera; they claim 16-8-6 Luftwaffe aircraft; 9
    B-17s are lost and 64 damaged; 3 airmen are KIA, 2 WIA and 90 MIA.
      3. 106 B-24s are dispatched to Lutzkendorf/Halle (66 bomb); 10 hit Wetzlar
    and 6 hit a target of opportunity; 3 B-24s are lost and 16 damaged; 1 airman
    is WIA and 3 MIA.
      4. 311 B-24s are dispatched to oil targets at Merseburg/Leuna (63 bomb) and
    Zeitz-Troglitz (187 bomb); 10 hit Limburg, 8 hit Memmingen, 9 hit Saalfeld
    and 10 hit targets of opportunity; they claim 1-0-0 Luftwaffe aircraft; 3
    B-24s are lost and 23 damaged; 1 airman is KIA, 1 WIA and 26 MIA.
      5. 58 of 59 B-17s hit Cologne/Eifeltor marshalling yard without loss; glide
    bombs are used but the weapon proves unsuccessful.
    Escort is provided by 182 P-38s, 208 P-47s and 307 P-51s; no P-38s are lost;
    P-47s claim 2-0-1 Luftwaffe aircraft in the air and 0-0-1 on the ground with
    the loss of 4 P-47s (pilots are MIA), 2 damaged beyond repair and 3 damaged;
    P-51s claim 25-1-5 Luftwaffe aircraft with the loss of 5 (pilots are MIA), 1
    damaged beyond repair and 8 damaged. 527 Ninth Air Force fighters also fly
    escort and claim 33-0-10 Luftwaffe aircraft in the air and 5-0-7 on the
    ground for the loss of 5 fighters.
      Mission 377: 5 of 5 B-17s drop leaflets in Belgium and Norway.
      22 B-24s are dispatched on CARPETBAGGER missions; 1 is lost.

      TACTICAL OPERATIONS (Ninth Air Force): 600+ B-26s and A-20s bomb
    marshalling and naval yards, railway bridges and V-weapon sites in France
    and Belgium; 8 aircraft are lost. P-47s dive-bomb several targets in the same
    general area.

    MEDITERRANEAN THEATER OF OPERATIONS (MTO)

      STRATEGIC OPERATIONS (Fifteenth Air Force): In Italy, 100+ B-24s bomb Genoa
    harbor and Vercelli marshalling yard and troop concentrations at Niksic,
    Yugoslavia. In Yugoslavia, P-38s fly fighter sweeps against airfields in the
    Kurilovec area and vehicles, communications lines and targets of opportunity
    in the Knin-Bihac-Banjaluka area. HQ 332d Fighter Group and 301st and 302d
    Fighter Squadrons move from Capodichino to Ramitelli Airfield, Italy with
    P-47s.

      TACTICAL OPERATIONS (Twelfth Air Force): In Italy, medium bombers hit
    bridges, viaducts, and railroad lines at several locations in C Italy,
    including Narni, Cortana, Terni, Ladispoli, Torrita di Siena, Magnano, Recco,
    Arezzo, Rapallo, Vado, Bucine, and Castiglion Fiorentino; light bombers hit
    an ammunition dump while fighter-bombers continue close support to advancing
    ground forces, encountering considerably less enemy motor transport behind
    lines because of the heavy attrition of recent days; many roads, railroads
    and bridges are hit as well as numerous other targets along the battlefront
    which now stretches from the W coast SW of Carroceto to the NE almost to
    Valmontone, then SW to just above Sezze, and from there ambles E to NE to the
    E coast below Pescara.

    PACIFIC OCEAN AREA (POA, Seventh Air Force): 29 B-25s stage from Eniwetok
    Atoll, bomb Jaluit Atoll, and land at Makin Island. B-24s from Eniwetok Atoll
    bomb Saipan and Guam Islands, Marianas Islands; those bombing Guam turn S to
    Los Negros Island to rearm while the others return to Eniwetok. B-25s flying
    from Engebi Island bomb Mille Atoll, Marshall Islands. B-24s escort USN photo
    planes over the Marianas Islands.

    SOUTH PACIFIC AREA (SOPAC, Thirteenth Air Force): On New Britain Island, 3
    B-24s, followed by 23 B-25s and 12 P-38s, blast the airfield at Lakunai; 33
    P-39s and P-40s join 40+ USN dive bombers in a strike on Tobera airstrip. 5
    B-25s hit Namatanai supply and personnel area on New Ireland Island. On
    Bougainville Island, fighter-bombers hit the Tsundan supply area, huts and
    buildings at Gohi, Nova and Monoitu, suspected barge hideout near Tonolai,
    and AA guns on Ballale Island.

    SOUTHWEST PACIFIC AREA (SWPA, Fifth Air Force): In New Guinea, B-24s and
    B-25s in support of ground forces on Biak Island hit villages, supply areas,
    troop concentrations and gun positions on Biak, Noemfoor, and Japen Islands;
    A-20s, B-25s, and fighter-bombers blast troop concentrations, AA positions
    and supply dumps in the Wewak area; A-20s supporting ground forces in heavy
    fighting in the Sarmi area, hit positions with minimum-level strikes. B-24s
    bomb Boela, Ceram Island; and 421st Night Fighter Squadron, V Fighter
    Command, based at Nadzab with P-70s, sends a detachment to operate from Wakde
    Island. Thirteenth Air Task Force B-24s bomb the airfield on Woleai Atoll.

    MONDAY, 29 MAY 1944

    AMERICAN THEATER OF OPERATIONS

      ALASKA (Eleventh Air Force): At dawn 2 B-25s photograph and bomb Shimushu
    and Matsuwa Islands (secondary). During the early afternoon 2 B-25s escorted
    by 4 P-38s strafe, bomb and sink a patrol boat in the Kurile Islands. Later 4
    other B-25s unsuccessfully attack 2 vessels off Shimushu.

    CHINA-BURMA-INDIA (CBI) THEATER OF OPERATIONS

      BURMA-INDIA (Tenth Air Force): In Burma, 27 B-25s and 40+ fighter-bombers
    pound troops and positions at Bhamo and Mohnyin, the railroad at Mogaung and
    warehouses at Sahmaw.

      CHINA (Fourteenth Air Force): 7 B-24s pound areas along the Burma Road, 3
    bomb the town of Wanling, Burma, and 2 attack a convoy of Hainan Island,
    China, claiming a 250-ft (76 m) freighter sunk. In China, 26 P-40s and P-38s
    attack troops at Lushan, pound barracks and demolish 7 trucks at Yuanchu,
    bomb and strafe the general area at Nanchang and destroy several buildings
    along the Hsiang River N of Changsha; and 19th Liaison Squadron, Fourteenth
    Air Force, attached to Y Force, moves from Ondal, India to Kunming with L-1s
    and L-5s.

    EUROPEAN THEATER OF OPERATIONS (ETO)

      STRATEGIC OPERATIONS (Eighth Air Force): Mission 379: 993 bombers and 673
    fighters are dispatched to attack aircraft plants and oil installations in
    Germany and Poland; they claim 117-38-49 Luftwaffe aircraft; 34 bombers and
    10 fighters are lost:
      1. 443 B-24s are dispatched to hit an oil terminal at Politz (224 bomb)
    and airfield and aircraft assembly plant at Tutow (167 bomb); 14 hit Rensburg
    Airfield, 9 hit Misdroy and 1 hits Schwerin; they claim 29-15-10 Luftwaffe
    aircraft; 17 B-24s are lost, 3 damaged beyond repair and 150 damaged; 2
    airmen are KIA, 10 WIA and 161 MIA.
      2. 251 B-17s are dispatched to hit aviation industry targets at Leipzig/
    Mockau (149 bomb) and Leipzig/Heiterblick (50 bomb); 4 others hit targets of
    opportunity; they claim 11-4-5 Luftwaffe aircraft; 9 B-17s are lost and 80
    damaged; 3 airmen are WIA and 90 MIA.
      3. 299 B-17s are dispatched to hit aviation industry targets at Krzesinki
    (91 bomb) and Posen (58 bomb), Poland and Sorau (52 bomb) and Cottbus (48
    bomb), Germany; 19 others hit Schneidemuhl Airfield and 2 hit targets of
    opportunity; they claim 22-18-14 Luftwaffe aircraft; 8 B-17s are lost and 97
    damaged; 5 airmen are WIA and 67 MIA.
      Escort is provided by 184 P-38s, 187 P-47s and 302 P-51s; the P-38s claim
    none and none are lost; the P-47s claim 1-0-1 Luftwaffe aircraft with the
    loss of 4 P-47s (3 pilots are MIA) and 3 damaged; the P-52s claim 38-1-4
    Luftwaffe aircraft in the air and 16-0-15 on the ground with the loss of 6
    P-51s (5 pilots are MIA) and 6 damaged. 592 Ninth Air Force fighters also
    support the mission; they claim 1-0-0 Luftwaffe aircraft and lose 2 fighters.
      23 B-24s are dispatched on CARPETBAGGER missions; 1 is lost.

      TACTICAL OPERATIONS (Ninth Air Force): 450+ B-26s and A-20s bomb airfields,
    marshalling yards, railroad bridges, coastal battery and NOBALL (V-weapon)
    targets in France and Belgium. 200+ P-47s bomb targets in the same area.

    MEDITERRANEAN THEATER OF OPERATIONS (MTO)

      STRATEGIC OPERATIONS (Fifteenth Air Force): 829 bombers (largest number of
    bombers completing attacks in a single day up to this time) bomb targets in
    Austria and Yugoslavia; B-17s and B-24s attack an aircraft factory at
    Wollesdorf, Austria; B-24s also attack industrial areas at Wiener Neustadt
    and Atzgersdorf, Austria and troop concentrations at Poderica, Yugoslavia.
    P-38s and P-51s escort the Austrian missions while P-38s accompany B-24s to
    Yugoslav targets and afterwards strafe numerous targets of opportunity;
    fighter opposition over Yugoslavia is negligible but around 150 fighters
    attempt interception over Austria, principally in the Wiener-Neustadt area;
    23 AAF aircraft are lost; the bombers and fighters claim 60+ fighters shot
    down.

      TACTICAL OPERATIONS (Twelfth Air Force): In Italy, B-25s bomb rail bridges
    near Bucine and at Poggibonsi and Lisciano; B-26s hit viaducts at Terni and
    near Stifone, railroad junction and marshalling yard at Terentola, Castiglion
    Fiorentino bridge, the Voltri shipyards and a bridge nearby; A-20s hit troops
    in bivouac and bomb a supply dump; fighter-bombers continue to blast motor
    transport between the battlelines and Rome; and C-47s evacuate 400+ wounded
    from the Anzio area.

    PACIFIC OCEAN AREA (POA, Seventh Air Force): Operations are restricted to
    photo missions over Wotje, Mille, and Jaluit Atolls.

    SOUTH PACIFIC AREA (SOPAC, Thirteenth Air Force): Major General James T
    Moore, USMC, takes over as Commander Air Solomons (COMAIRSOLS).
      On New Britain Island, almost 100 B-25s, P-38s, P-39s and a variety of USN
    aircraft pound the Rabaul area, with AAF aircraft concentrating on the Nordup
    supply area and the others concentrating on Hospital Point AA positions. On
    Bougainville Island, 24 P-39s and 16 P-40s blast occupied areas W of Tinputs
    Harbor and at Arigua Plantation.

    SOUTHWEST PACIFIC AREA (SWPA, Fifth Air Force): In New Guinea, B-24s pound
    gun positions, defense areas and troops, as the first tank battle of the SWPA
    is fought W of Parai on Biak Island; other B-24s pound airfields on nearby
    mainland at Timoeka and Babo; A-20s, B-25s and P-47s, along with RAAF
    aircraft and a few B-24s from the Biak strike, saturate the Wewak area with
    continuous air strikes; in the Wakde Island-Sarmi battle zone, B-25s and
    P-40s hit forces in the Mount Saskin area; B-24s of the Thirteenth Air Task
    Force bomb Woleai Atoll and other nearby islands in the Caroline Islands.

    TUESDAY, 30 MAY 1944

    AMERICAN THEATER OF OPERATIONS

      ALASKA (Eleventh Air Force): 1 B-25 and 2 P-38s fly guardship cover.

      ZONE OF INTERIOR (HQ USAAF): All Fighter-Bomber Groups/Squadrons are
    redesignated Fighter Groups/Squadrons.

    CHINA-BURMA-INDIA (CBI) THEATER OF OPERATIONS

      BURMA-INDIA (Tenth Air Force): In Burma, 9 B-25s attack the railroad
    between Namma and Hopin; B-25s and fighter-bombers fly 100 sorties against
    railroad targets, hitting tracks, rolling stock, stations, and bridges in the
    vicinities of Mogaung, Myitkyina, Hopin and Loilaw; the Imphal-Tiddim road is
    bombed by 3 B-24s.

      CHINA (Fourteenth Air Force): In China, 48 fighters support ground forces
    in the Mamien Pass-Watien-Chiangtso area; 31 supply aircraft drop food and
    ammunition to friendly forces in the Mamien Pass area; 13 B-25s damage the
    Wan Pa-Hsa, Burma bridge and bomb Lungling, destroying 6 warehouses and
    starting several big fires; 8 P-51s hit railroad targets of opportunity on
    sweeps from Peking, Chengting, Pingting, Linfen and Puchou; 16 P-38s and
    P-51s dive-bomb installations at the W end of the Nanchang bridge, causing
    much damage; 5 B-25s and 12 P-40s strafe troops, supplies, and occupied
    strongpoints at Loyang and at several locations along the Yangtze and Yellow
    Rivers; Japanese air strikes on Hengyang and Liangshan Airfields destroy 4
    AAF aircraft, damage several others, and blow up a fuel dump.

    EUROPEAN THEATER OF OPERATIONS (ETO): Loading of assault forces for Operation
    OVERLORD (invasion of Normandy) begins.

      STRATEGIC OPERATIONS (Eighth Air Force): Mission 380: 928 bombers and 672
    fighters in 6 forces are dispatched to hit aircraft industry targets in
    Germany and marshalling yards in France and Belgium; they claim 65-8-6
    Luftwaffe aircraft; 12 bombers and 9 fighters are lost:
      1. 268 B-17s are dispatched to attack aviation industry targets at Dessau
    (83 bomb), Halberstadt (107 bomb) and Oschersleben (51 bomb); 5 other hit
    targets of opportunity; they claim 8-5-1 Luftwaffe aircraft; 9 B-17s are lost
    and 81 damaged; 2 airmen are WIA and 86 MIA.
      2. 369 B-24s are dispatched to hit aviation depots at Oldenburg (135 bomb),
    Rotenburg (147 bomb) and Zwischenahn (71 bomb); 1 other hits a target of
    opportunity; 1 B-24 is lost, 2 damaged beyond repair and 36 damaged; 1 airman
    is KIA, 2 WIA and 9 MIA.
      3. 46 of 91 B-24s hit Munster/Handorf Airfield and 36 others hit Diepholz
    Airfield; 2 B-24s are lost, 1 is damaged beyond repair and 36 damaged; 1
    airman is KIA, 6 WIA and 9 MIA.
      4. 122 of 126 B-17s hit French marshalling yards; 62 hit Reims and 60 hit
    Troyes; 24 B-17s are damaged.
      5. 39 of 40 B-17s hit Brussels/Schaerbeck marshalling yard, Belgium; 12
    B-17s are damaged.
      6. 76 of 84 B-17s hit V-weapon sites in the Pas de Calais, France; 12 B-17s
    are damaged; 3 airmen are KIA, 2 WIA and 10 MIA.
      Escort is provided by 186 P-38s, 184 P-47s and 302 P-51s; 3 P-38s are
    damaged; P-47s claim 2-0-0 Luftwaffe aircraft with 1 loss (pilot is MIA);
    P-51s claim 48-3-2 Luftwaffe aircraft in the air and 7-0-3 on the ground with
    the loss of 8 P-51s (pilots are MIA), 2 damaged beyond repair and 4 damaged;
    637 Ninth Air Force fighters support the mission; they claim 8-0-2 aircraft
    in the air and 0-0-4 on the ground for the loss of 3.
      100 P-47s are dispatched to bomb 4 rail bridges in NW France; 37 hit
    Longueil bridge, 26 hit Beaumont-sur-Oise bridge, 23 hit Canly-le-Jouque
    bridge and 12 hit the Creil bridge; 1 P-47 is lost (pilot is MIA).

      TACTICAL OPERATIONS (Ninth Air Force): In France, 320+ B-26s attack
    airfields at Denain/Prouvy and Mantes/Limay, and highway bridges at Meulan
    and Rouen. Nearly 400 P-47s dive-bomb targets in NW Europe.

    MEDITERRANEAN THEATER OF OPERATIONS (MTO)

      STRATEGIC OPERATIONS (Fifteenth Air Force): Nearly 500 bombers attack
    targets in Austria and Yugoslavia; B-17s attack the marshalling yard at
    Zagreb, Yugoslavia; B-24s attack aircraft factories at Wels, Ebreichadorf,
    Pottendorf, Neudorfl and Neunkirchen, Austria; P-38s and P-51s provide
    escort and many of the fighters strafe targets of opportunity in areas around
    Zut, Brod, Susak, Bihac, Medak, and along the Karlovac-Livno road, Yugoslavia.

      TACTICAL OPERATIONS (Twelfth Air Force): In Italy, B-26s and B-25s destroy
    or damage 10 bridges, bridge approaches and viaducts which affect supply
    routes to the battlefronts across C Italy; light and fighter-bombers blast
    motor transports and gun positions in the battle area and hit targets in and
    around towns in the area, including Guidonia, Ariccia, Alatri and Veroli; and
    C-47s evacuate wounded from Nettuno.

    PACIFIC OCEAN AREA (POA, Seventh Air Force): B-25s from Engebi Island bomb
    Ponape Island, which is also hit by B-24s returning from the shuttle base on
    Los Negros Island. 2 forces of B-24s from Kwajalein Atoll strike Truk Atoll
    and Wake Island.

    SOUTH PACIFIC AREA (SOPAC, Thirteenth Air Force): On New Britain Island, 23
    B-25s bomb personnel areas NE of Tobera; 40+ P-38s, P-40s and P-39s bomb a
    supply dump near Ratawul. On Bougainville island, 33 P-39s and 8 P-40s
    demolish bridges at Kirinani and over the Siaibai River; a log ramp over the
    Miwo River is damaged and a road between the Purlata River and Kiaraba is
    hit; the fighter-bombers also attack Buka runway on Buka Island, Chabai barge
    anchorage and Soraken supply area.

    SOUTHWEST PACIFIC AREA (SWPA, Fifth Air Force): On New Guinea, B-25s hit
    enemy positions as fighting on Biak Island slacks temporarily; other B-25s
    bomb the airfield and nearby AA guns and fuel at Timoeka; B-24s and A-20s hit
    Japen Island; in the Wakde Island-Sarmi battle area, B-25s bomb and strafe
    the shoreline from the NW of Sawar to Sarmi Point; the Wewak area is again
    blasted by 70+ A-20s, B-24s and B-25s, along with RAAF aircraft. Thirteenth
    Air Task Force B-24s hit Truk Atoll and Woleai Atolls and Puluwat Atoll,
    Caroline Islands.

    WEDNESDAY, 31 MAY 1944

    AMERICAN THEATER OF OPERATIONS

      ALASKA (Eleventh Air Force): During the morning 2 B-25s and 4 P-38s fly
    guardship cover. A bomber flies a weather mission while another reconnoiters
    and hits Buroton Bay, Kurile Islands.

    CHINA-BURMA-INDIA (CBI) THEATER OF OPERATIONS

      BURMA-INDIA (Tenth Air Force): In Burma, 12 B-25s hit the Tiddim road; 130+
    B-25s, A-36s, P-51s, and P-40s hit troops, defensive positions, artillery
    emplacements, boats, railroad facilities, and villages in the Myitkyina-
    Mogaung area, buildings at Tahona, river boats at Lonkin and Kamaing, docks
    at Bhamo, railroad cars at Namti, and positions NW of Mohnyin; 21 other B-25s
    and fighter-bombers pound the Bhamo town area and airfield; and 10 B-24s bomb
    Ye-u, demolishing several buildings.

      CHINA (Fourteenth Air Force): 51 P-51s and P-40s pound shipping along the
    Yangtze River, claiming direct hits on 5 small ships; 16 P-51s and P-40s bomb
    Kweiyi and Yoyang and installations on the river to the S; 10 P-38s bomb the
    bridge and warehouse area at Nanchang; 12 P-40s bomb Pingkiang; 4 B-25s bomb
    Hankow airfield, Pailochi, and motor convoy at Yoyang; 6 other B-25s knock
    out the bridge at Kengluang; 13 B-24s pound the town of Lungling, causing big
    fires, while 14 B-24s, supported by P-40s blast the warehouse area at Lashio,
    Burma; 4 P-40s destroy several aircraft during strafing runs on Linfen and
    Hohsien Airfields.

    EUROPEAN THEATER OF OPERATIONS (ETO)

      STRATEGIC OPERATIONS (Eighth Air Force): Mission 382: 1,029 bombers and 682
    fighters attack marshalling yards and aircraft industry targets in Germany
    and rail targets in France and Belgium; the fighters claim 4-0-1 Luftwaffe
    aircraft on the ground; 1 bomber and 3 fighters are lost:
      1. Of 246 B-17s, 36 hit Luxeuil marshalling yard, France; 30 hit Florennes/
    Juzaine Airfield and 4 hit Namur marshalling yard, Belgium; 23 hit Gilze-
    Rijen Airfield and 12 hit Roosendaal marshalling yard, The Netherlands;
    and 3 hit targets of opportunity; 45 B-17s are damaged; 1 airman is KIA and 4
    WIA.
      2. 287 B-17s are dispatched to hit marshalling yards in Germany; 88 hit
    Osnabruck, 54 hit Schwerte, 52 hit Oeske and 50 hit Hamm; 1 B-17 is lost and
    58 damaged; 1 airman is WIA and 10 MIA.
      3. 491 B-24s are dispatched to hit rail targets in France and Belgium but
    are recalled due to clouds; 1 B-24 is damaged beyond repair and 7 damaged.
      4. 4 of 5 B-24s hit rail bridges at Beaumont-sur-Oise and bridges at Melun
    without loss; Azon radio-controlled bombs are unsuccessfully used against the
    bridges.
      Escort is provided by 193 P-38s, 180 P-47s and 309 P-51s; P-38s claim 1-0-0
    Luftwaffe aircraft on the ground with 1 P-38 being damaged; 1 P-47 is lost
    (pilot is MIA) and 3 are damaged; P-51s claim 3-0-1 aircraft on the ground
    with 2 P-51s lost (pilots are MIA). 674 Ninth Air Force fighters provide
    support; no claims or losses.
      Fighter-bomber missions against German airfields with 500 lb (227 kg) and
    100 lb (45 kg) GP bombs:
      1. 78 of 81 P-47s hit Gutersloh Airfield; they claim 5-1-3 Luftwaffe
    aircraft; 1 P-47 is damaged.
      2. 35 P-38s attack Rehein/Hopsten Airfield using DROOPSNOOT methods; they
    claim 5-0-0 aircraft on the ground.
      22 B-24s are dispatched on CARPETBAGGER missions over France without loss.

      TACTICAL OPERATIONS (Ninth Air Force): About 200 B-26s bomb lock and
    highway bridges at Bennecourt, Courcelles-sur-Seine and Rouen, France.

    MEDITERRANEAN THEATER OF OPERATIONS (MTO)

      STRATEGIC OPERATIONS (Fifteenth Air Force): 480+ B-17s and B-24s bomb oil
    refineries and communications targets in the Ploesti, Rumania area; fighters
    fly 200+ sorties in support; 15 bombers are lost to flak and fighters; 40+
    enemy aircraft are shot down.

      TACTICAL OPERATIONS (Twelfth Air Force): In Italy, medium bombers of the
    42d and 57th Bombardment Wings give close support to ground forces in fierce
    fighting S of Rome, hitting numerous troop concentrations, roads and town
    areas, including points in or near Albano Laziale, Genzano di Roma, Ariccia,
    Frascati, Civitella Roveta, Subiaco, Cave, Nettuno and Grottaferrata; XII
    Tactical Air Command A-20s and fighter-bombers blast targets in the same
    general area, hitting troops, bridges, supplies, guns and vehicles at or near
    Rocca di Papa, Ariccia, Marino, Frascati, Grottaferrata, Lanuvio, Montalto di
    Castro and Manciano; and C-47s evacuate casualties from Anzio.

    SOUTH PACIFIC AREA (SOPAC, Thirteenth Air Force): On New Britain Island, 12
    P-38s bomb Vulcan Crater barge hideout; 22 P-39s and 12 P-40s blast supply
    dumps near Ratawul; 33 B-25s pound Rabaul truck concentrations, wharf area,
    and NE section of town. 5 B-25s bomb targets of opportunity along the NW
    coast of New Ireland Island. On Bougainville Island, P-39s bomb several
    targets, including Soraken, Arigua, and several barges and vehicles.

    SOUTHWEST PACIFIC AREA (SWPA, Fifth Air Force): In New Guinea, B-25s and
    A-20s hit the Babo area, bomb the airfield near the Ransiki River, cover the
    beachhead on Biak Island and attack fishing boats on the shore of Japen
    Island; P-47s and B-25s pound villages, barges, and gun positions in the
    Wakde Island-Sarmi battle area; B-24s, P-39s and RAAF aircraft continue to
    hit the Wewak and Hansa Bay areas.

    SOURCES:
    AIR FORCE COMBAT UNITS OF WORLD WAR II, Office of Air Force History,
      Headquarters USAF, 1961, ISBN 0-912799-02-1
    COMBAT SQUADRONS OF THE AIR FORCE, WORLD WAR II, Office of Air Force
      History, Headquarters USAF 1982
    THE ARMY AIR FORCES IN WORLD WAR II: COMBAT CHRONOLOGY, 1941-1945 by the
      Office of Air Force History, Headquarters USAF, 1973
    THE MIGHTY EIGHTH WAR DIARY by Roger A. Freeman, ISBN 1-85409-071-2

    Jack McKillop
    USAF (Airways and Air Communications Service)
    1955-59

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