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Of An Airman's Tour With The Eighth 1944-1945
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Fri.
Dec. 1, 1944
I went on a pass today
and of course to London. I met an A.T.S. girl at the Rainbow
Room dance. She was a nice girl!
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A.T.S.
stands for Auxiliary Transport Signals - English women who relayed
messages for the military in a variety of ways, sometimes by
motor bike.
Sat.
Dec. 2, 1944
I got up at noon and
met a buddie in the Stran Palace bar and we got drunk!
Sun.
Dec. 3, 1944
I went to Mass at St.
James Spanish Palace in London and took the 10:00 A.M. train
back to the base. I stood up all the way! At night I went to
the club dance and met Phylis and we got feeling good together!
Mon.
Dec. 4, 1944
I was called out for
a mission this morning! We were to bomb marshelling yards at
Giessen, Germany after going to Merseburg that wasn't too bad,
but I was as scared as hell, per usual. After we landed I went
to the club. Mission No. completed! 
TUESDAY
Dec. 5, 1944
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Approximately
1,200 Fortresses and Liberators of the Eighth Air Force, escorted
by about 1,000 Mustangs and Thunderbolts of the Eighth and Lightnings
of the Ninth, yesterday hammered rail yards and industrial objectives
in the Reich.
The heavies struck at Kassel, Mainz, Giessen,
Soest, and Bebra and elsewhere in western Germany.
Also in daylight yesterday RAF Lancasters continued the offensive
against the railways of the Ruhr district with a concentrated
assault on Oberhausen.
"German targets are due for the greatest
weight of bombardment they have ever received, and winter weather
will not protect them," Lt. Gen. Ira C. Eaker, Mediterranean,
Allied Air Force chief, said, predicting the success of new cloud-bombing
techniques.
He described Ploesti as "the bloodiest air
battlefield of the war," where U.S. losses were 350 bombers
and more than 1,400 fliers. But, he said, "It was worth
the cost." Eaker said a Rumanian official had told him that
when the Ploesti attacks started the Germans were getting 26,000
tons of petroleum products daily from there, and when the attacks
ended production had been cut to 3,505 tons daily.
Ninth
Air Force fighter-bombers, in action on the U.S. First and Ninth
Army fronts Sunday, attacked fortified villages and artillery
concentrations near Duren, troops and fortifications north of
Julich, and rail yards at Grenenbroich.
On the U.S. Third Army front, Thunderbolts bombed
the town of Zweibrucken. 
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From Photographs of London
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