Highlights of Day by Day Air Operations
15 August 1944

With enemy fighter activity rising sharply to a total of about 350 sorties, XIX TAC claims were 13-0-3 in the air and 2-0-7 on the ground. Five U.S. planes were lost. North of Dreux, the 406th Group's Tigertaming 513th Squadron got 4 heavy tanks and 1 light one with its 5-inch rocket projectiles.

Total combat sorties were 659, and 40 tactical reconnaissance and artillery adjustment sorties were flown.

An advance element of XIX TAC had leapfrogged forward to a wooded section north of Laval