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Perhaps this can help a bit

http://paul.rutgers.edu/~mcgrew/wwii...ml/Dec.44.html
COMBAT CHRONOLOGY OF THE US ARMY AIR FORCES DECEMBER 1944

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MONDAY, 4 DECEMBER 1944, TACTICAL OPERATIONS (Ninth Air Force): Weather prevents bomber operations. In Germany, fighters fly armed reconnaissance and support the US 1st, 8th, and 104th Infantry Divisions at Luchem, Bergstein, and E of Inde River; and the XII and XX Corps in drive toward the Saar River and around Saarlautern.