18-12-1944 Flights

[Alex Smart]

Hi Johnnie


Here issome info on Monday the 18th December1944.


"MONDAY, 18 DECEMBER 1944

STRATEGIC OPERATIONS (Fifteenth Air Force):
560+ B-17s and B-24s hit oil refineries at Blechhammer N and S and Odertal,
Germany; Floridsdorf refinery at Vienna, Austria; Moravska-Ostrava,
Czechoslovakia; and Auschwitz, Poland; marshalling yards at Graz and Studenzen,
Austria, and Sopron, Hungary; the Bruck an der Mur, Austria industrial area,
and various scattered targets of opportunity; fighters fly escort and
reconnaissance missions.

TACTICAL OPERATIONS (Twelfth Air Force):
In Italy, weather again curtails operations; the XXII Tactical Air Command
fighters and fighter-bombers hit communications in the E Po River Valley,
scoring particular success against lines in the N part of the Valley in the
Padua region, and support US Fifth Army operations in the battle area S of
Bologna."

This is from the www.milhist.net pages

Hope it helps your search

night

Alex