Highlights of Day by Day Air Operations
24 August 1944

Foul weather continued to plague XIX TAC pilots, low ceilings and poor visibility over the target areas in the vicinity of Paris restricting combat activity to 12 missions of 164 sorties. The enemy also was handicapped; no German planes were seen.

Rocket-firing P-47's launched 12 projectiles at 105-millimeter guns near Nantes and claimed 4 destroyed and 2 damaged. Five 88-millimeter guns also were attacked. Forty carts of an ammunition convoy were blown up, and other aircraft did a little "working on the railroad." No high explosive bombs were carried, but rockets and strafing destroyed or damaged 55 railroad cars, 2 locomotives, 68 motor vehicles, 3 tanks and armored vehicles, and 40 ammunition cars; 12 field-gun positions were attacked and 2 headquarters left burning. Twenty-nine reconnaissance sorties were flown.