THURSDAY, 10 AUGUST 1944
ALASKA (Eleventh Air Force): Four B-25s on a shipping sweep spot two patrol boats
75 miles ESE of Shimushu Island. One is sunk, the
other is damaged.
BURMA-INDIA (Tenth Air Force): In Burma, 9 B-25s bomb the town of Shwekyina; a few P-51s support ground forces by hitting a railroad station at Mingon.
CHINA (Fourteenth Air Force): In China, 9 P-40s strafe Taiyuan Airfield claiming 20+ aircraft destroyed; 16 P-40s destroy 4 trucks and damage about 50 others at Siangtan and in the Changsha area; 2 P-40s strafe numerous junks along the S China coast.
STRATEGIC OPERATIONS (Twentieth Air Force): Two missions are flown during the night of 10/11 Aug; in one, 24 B-29s, out of Chengtu, bomb the urban area of Nagasaki and 3 others hit targets of opportunity; the B-29s claim 1 fighter shot down, the first such claim (except probables) by the B-29s. In other missions, the first staged through China Bay, Ceylon, 31 B-29s bomb oil refineries at Palembang, 8 mine the Moesi River nearby, and 3 hit targets of opportunity and a secondary target; the first attack, from Ceylon to Sumatra, is the longest single-stage combat flight (about 3,900 miles or 6,276 km) by B-29s during the war.
PACIFIC OCEAN AREA (POA, Seventh Air Force): B-24s flying their first mission from Saipan pound Iwo Jima, beginning the AAF's neutralization campaign of that island. P-47s from Saipan hit Tinian and Pagan. B-24s from Kwajalein hit Wotje.
USMC:
On Guam all organized Japanese resistance ends.
SOUTHWEST PACIFIC AREA [SWPA, Far East Air Force (FEAF)]: B-24s attack Yap, concentrating on AA positions, airfields and the town of Yap; others
hit Galela Airfield and Lolobata and Namlea Airfield. In New Guinea, B-25s bomb Langgoer
Airfield; fighter-bombers attack Sorong, Manokwari, and villages along the
west coast of Geelvink Bay; fighter-bombers continue to pound forces between Aitape and Wewak; large-scale troop carrier missions are flown to forward bases, especially
on Biak; HQ Fifth Air Force moves from Nadzab to Owi;
HQ 91st Photographic Wing (Reconnaissance) moves from Nadzab to Biak;
HQ 308th Bombardment Wing moves from Owi to Hollandia; and HQ 90th Bombardment Group and 319th and 320th Bombardment
Squadrons move from Nadzab to Biak with B-24s.
