Mission 38
Mission Summaries > March 1944
THURSDAY, 16 MARCH
1944
EUROPEAN THEATER OF
OPERATIONS (ETO)
STRATEGIC OPERATIONS
(Eighth Air Force):
Mission 262:
2 primary targets and
targets of opportunity in Germany are attacked; fighter opposition is heavy
against the first force of bombers over France and Germany; the bombers claim 68-32-43
Luftwaffe aircraft; 23 bombers and 10 fighters are lost and 179 damaged:
401 of 501 B-17s hit
Augsburg, 46 bomb Gessertshausen and 18 hit Ulm; 18 B-17s are lost; casualties
are 1 KIA, 10 WIA and 171 MIA.
197 of 213 B-24s bomb Friedrichshafen and
13 hit targets of opportunity; 5 B-24s are lost and 1 damaged beyond repair;
casualties are 6 KIA, 7 WIA and 46 MIA.
Escort is provided by 125
P-38s, 608 Eighth and Ninth Air Force P-47s and 135 Eighth and Ninth Air Force
P-51s; claims and losses are: P-38s: 1 lost; P-47s claim 25-3-17 Luftwaffe
aircraft; 3 P-47s are lost and 5 damaged; 3 pilots are MIA; and P-51s claim
53-4-16 Luftwaffe aircraft; 6 P-51s are lost, 2 damaged beyond repair and 5
damaged; 6 pilots are MIA. The fighters also claim 1-0-13 Luftwaffe aircraft on
the ground.
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