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American carrier aircraft will continue to strike Eniwetok daily through February 7. [26] 777 Eighth Air Force bombers escorted by 635 fighters raid aviation industry targets in Branschweig, Germany, although cloud cover over the target forces some to bomb Hanover instead; 20 bombers and 4 fighters are lost. The bombers and fighters combined ...
An instructor pilot and a student pilot flying Vultee BT-13B Valiant, 42-90353, of the 262d Combat Crew Training School, [188] [281] back to Bruning Army Air Field, Nebraska, after a training session, and Republic P-47D-15-RA Thunderbolt, 42-23149, of the same unit, [26] [281] whose pilot had been conducting individual training, returning to ...
By March 1944, Lucy had been returned to the US to be used as a base transport aircraft and later as a heavy bomber trainer. It was finally flown to Albuquerque, New Mexico, in August 1945 to be sold for scrap. [29] The Eager Beavers' mission was featured in a 2007 episode of the History Channel series Dogfights, titled "Long Odds". [30]
The American military command was relatively late in drawing lessons from the disorderly air raid, which had struck an ally's civilian population hard. [38] Not until mid-May 1944, orders were given to seek out targets of opportunity at least 30 kilometers away from the Netherlands' border. [ 38 ]
The Rüsselsheim massacre was a war crime that involved the lynching and killing of six American airmen by townspeople of Rüsselsheim during World War II.. The incident happened on August 26, 1944, two days after a Consolidated B-24 Liberator bomber of the United States Army Air Forces was shot down by heavy anti-aircraft fire over Hanover.
: Germans defeat American troops in the Battle of Cisterna near Anzio. [2] 3: American planes bomb Eniwetok in the Marshalls, later to be a major B-29 base. 4: Kwajalein, the world's largest atoll and a major Japanese naval base, is secured. 5: The American Navy bombards the Kuril Islands, northernmost in the Japanese homelands.
While the second group of American P-38s were starting their attack, the commander of the 17th Air Army, General Vladimir Sudets, who was at the Niš airbase at the time, issued an order for immediate takeoff to the pilots on duty flying Yakovlev Yak-9 fighters from 866th Fighter Aviation Regiment of 288th Fighter Aviation Division based at ...
George Earl Preddy Jr. (February 5, 1919 – December 25, 1944) was a United States Army Air Forces officer during World War II and an American ace credited with 26.83 enemy air-to-air kills (a number that includes shared one-half and one-third victory credits), [1] ranking him as the top P-51 Mustang ace of World War II and eighth on the list of highest scoring American aces.