Highlights of Day by Day Air Operations
22 August 1944

Increasing vulnerability of the GAF, driven from some of its best fields to landing grounds north and northeast of Paris, was demonstrated when XIX TAC fighters destroyed 20 enemy fighters for the loss of 1. Complete claims were 16-3-1 in the air and 4-0-4 on the ground. Feature of the day was provided by the P-51's of the 354th Group. Fifteen of them, on a fighter sweep, destroyed 12 Me-109's without loss--8 in the air as they were taking off from a grass field 5 miles east Epernay, and 4 on the ground by strafing.

Flying 333 combat sorties, our aircraft dropped 16.75 tons of GP bombs and 26 fragmentation clusters, plus 18 leaflet bombs. Reconnaissance sorties totaled 60.