Highlights of Day by Day Air Operations
4 August 1944

Although only four groups were available and low ceiling over bases prevented operations until 1030, the scale of air activity rose sharply to 30 missions consisting of 424 sorties.

Activities of the day included cooperation with the 4th Armored Division, in which 15 enemy tanks were destroyed or damaged; attacks on the strong concrete pillbox defenses of St. Malo in the face of intense flak and fire from warships; and armed, tactical, and photographic reconnaissance flights along the flanks and routes of the advances and as far south as Angers and east as Laval. Some aircraft were damaged by flak, but no planes or pilots were lost and there were no claims against enemy aircraft. The four groups in action dropped 52.5 tons of bombs on the targets.