Highlights of Day by Day Air Operations
8 August 1944

To begin its second week of activity, XIX TAC struck another high peak by flying 717 sorties. Five enemy aircraft were destroyed and 11 XIX TAC planes were lost. Strafing and dropping 94.5 tons of bombs, the fighter bombers destroyed 29 locomotives, 137 freight cars, 195 motor vehicles, 10 fuel and ammunition vehicles, 16 horse-drawn vehicles, 17 tanks or other armored vehicles, and 11 flak positions; damaged two locomotives, 57 freight cars, 28 motor transports and 26 armored vehicles; cut rail lines at 7 points; and attacked a troop concentration and 7 fuel dumps, 1 of which was completely destroyed. Reconnaissance planes flew 46 tactical, 1 photographic, and 6 artillery adjustment missions.

The outstanding features of the day's operations were the large bag of enemy transport destroyed or damaged and the almost continuous air cover provided our ground forces. Improved communications with the 67th Reconnaissance Group facilitated the flow of information to the Army G-2 section, and in several instances information of enemy motor transport and tank concentrations was received in time to permit A-3 to order a mission.