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303rd Bomb Group (H) History
November 17th    

November 17, 1942
303rd BG (H) Combat Mission No. 1
Target: U-Boat Submarine Pens, St. Nazaire, France
Crews Dispatched: 16
Length of Mission: 4 hours, 45 minutes
Bomb Load: 10 x 500 lbs General Purpose
Bombing Altitude: 20,000 ft
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November 17, 1942
ETO 8th AF: Mission 20: 2 locations are targetted: 1. 23 of 49 B-17s and 12 of 14 B-24s hit the U-boats pens at St Nazaire, France; they claim 6-8-2 Luftwaffe aircraft; 9 B-17s and 7 B-24s are damaged; 1 airman is KIA and 3 WIA. 2. 6 B-24s are dispatched to hit Maupertus Airfield at Cherbourg but abort due to cloud cover. 3. 10 B-17s fly a diversion to covert the missions above.

8th AF history extracted from Jack McKillop's USAAF Combat Chronology
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