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The Second Raid on Schweinfurt on 14 October 1943, remembered as "Black Thursday" while October 1943 as a whole as a "black month" [12]), proved even more bloody; of the 291 aircraft on the mission, 60 were lost, with a further 17 damaged beyond repair. The self-defense concept appeared flawed enough, and losses among the bombers deemed ...
6 March 6, 1944 (Monday) 7 March 7, 1944 (Tuesday) 8 March 8, 1944 (Wednesday) ... American heavy bombers mounted the first-ever, full-scale daylight raid on Berlin.
4 March 1944 USAAF Target: Berlin. Attempted raids had been halted by bad weather on 3 March. [64] 29-30 B-17s reached the target, 5 shot down. [65] [66] 6 March 1944 USAAF A maximum effort raid by 730 (504 B-17s and 226 B-24s) bombers and 800 fighters. [66] 69 US bombers were lost. 11 North American P-51 Mustangs were also lost. [65]
Ralph Cheli (pronounced "Kelly" / ˈ k ɛ l i /; [1] October 29, 1919 – March 6, 1944) was a major in the United States Army Air Forces and a recipient of the Medal of Honor.He served as the commanding officer of the 405th Bombardment Squadron (Medium) in the Fifth Air Force's 38th Bombardment Group, based at Durand Airfield, Port Moresby, New Guinea.
On March 6, 1944, Blakeslee flew in the first Mustang over Berlin while defending Boeing B-17s and Consolidated B-24s. [2] Escorting the massed daylight raids of the 8th Air Force over Occupied Europe while under Blakeslee's command, the 4th FG became one of the highest-scoring groups of VIII Fighter Command.
He was recognized as an ace on February 11, 1944, with the crediting of his fifth kill, a Bf 109. He continued to regularly shoot down German aircraft, scoring two kills on the first day of Big Week , another on a long-range bomber escort to Berlin on March 6, and four more in consecutive missions of March 15 and 16.
1893 – Ella P. Stewart, pioneering Black American pharmacist (d. 1987) [28] 1895 – Albert Tessier, Canadian priest and historian (d. 1976) 1898 – Gus Sonnenberg, American football player and wrestler (d. 1944) 1900 – Gina Cigna, French-Italian soprano and actress (d. 2001) 1900 – Lefty Grove, American baseball player (d. 1975)
13 April 1360 – Black Monday (1360), when inclement weather killed men and horses in the army of Edward III during the Hundred Years' War. [2] 8 April 1652 (New Style, i.e. in the Gregorian calendar, or 29 March, Old Style, in the Julian calendar) – A total solar eclipse.