Highlights of Day by Day Air Operations
14 August 1944

With his airfields around Paris endangered and many in process of evacuation, the enemy appears to have flown fewer than 100 single-engine fighter sorties on this date, chiefly in defense of ground troops.

The only XIX TAC group to meet air opposition was the 405th, giving close cooperation to the 7th Armored Division. Five P-47's and pilots were lost against claims of 4-2-1. Four of the five losses were incurred when four P-47's, pulling up from reconnaissance about 20 miles east of Dreux, were bounced from above at 3,000 feet by 16 FW-190's which came in below the four P-47's flying top cover. Three of the attackers were claimed as destroyed, plus one probable and one damaged.

Seventy-nine combat missions, including 665 sorties, were flown, together with 18 reconnaissance missions involving 36 sorties.