9th Airforce Operations

[Steve Smith]

Hi all,

Is there a web site which lists the day-to-day operations flown by the 9th Airforce from England ? Or a book in a similar fashion as the 8th A/F diary ?

I am trying to determine the groups involved in escorting No.3 Group Bomber Command daylight operations from November 1944 onwards. 3 Group records often quote that escort would be provided by 9th A/F fighter groups.

Thanks in advance.

HAPPY NEW YEAR

Steve

[Larry]

Try USAAF Chronology such as this which covers global ops

http://paul.rutgers.edu/~mcgrew/wwii...ml/Nov.44.html

To get other months substitute Nov for May or Jun or Dec

[Laurent Rizzotti]

For November 1944, you can try this source:
http://cgsc.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/c.../id/201/rec/41

It is a very detailled chronology of operations covering all theaters in November 1944 (in five PDFs, see the right column on the screen).

For each day and sector, the chronology describes the ground operation and then the air operations. I used it for October 1944 and there were more details on the tactical work of 2nd TAF and 9th Air Force, for example, than in any other source I know.

I did not check the November 1944 files for your specific question, but I know that the air operations are still included. This is sadly no more the case for December 1944 (that is much shorter), and the files for 1945, if they exist, are not available on this website.

I checked the book "Fighter Command war diaries, part 5". For most days of November 1944, it says Fighter Command (the RAF fighters units still based in England) escorted RAF heavy bombers to Germany, providing numbers for some days (97 Spitfires and 48 Mustangs on the 1st, for example) but say nothing of American involvement in these raids.

Best regards