WEDNESDAY, 23 AUGUST 1944
BURMA-INDIA (Tenth Air Force): In Burma, 32 P-47s support British advances down the railroad in the Pinbaw area hitting gun positions, troops, and HQ buildings, immediately N of Pinbaw, and along Nansonti Creek; and 6 P-47s pound Onsansaing, and 8 P-51s bomb an encampment near Kadu. In China, four P-51s hit Lungling and Mangshih; 5 others attack guns, fuel dump, and other targets of opportunity along the Burma Road from Wanling to Lungling while 7 more hit buildings and vehicles during sweeps of the general Mangshih-Chefang area; and 12 P-51s hit targets of opportunity SW of Lungling and 2 P-40s strafe trucks at Chefang.
CHINA (Fourteenth Air Force): Seven B-25s and 21 fighter-bombers attack villages, compounds, other targets of opportunity near Hengyang, Lingyang, and Anjen; 40+ fighter-bombers hit villages, shipping, troops, supplies, and other targets of opportunity around Ichang, Yangtien, Siangtan, and Yiyang, and S of Sungpai and Siangyin; and the 529th Fighter Squadron, 311th Fighter Group, moves from Dinjan to Pungchacheng with P-51s.
PACIFIC OCEAN AREA (POA, Seventh Air Force): B-24s from Saipan bomb Yap and Iwo Jima while P-47s hit Pagan and Aguijan. B-25s attack Ponape.
SOUTHWEST PACIFIC AREA [SWPA, Far East Air Force (FEAF)]: B-24s pound the Galela area. B-24s hit Langgoer Airfield and Saumlakki;
fighter-bombers hit Nabire Airfield, Moemi Airfield and Urarom Airfield, Moari and Manokwari; B-25s, A-20s, and fighter-bombers continue
to attack barge hideouts, troops, villages, and general targets of opportunity
around Wewak; HQ 18th Fighter Group and the 12th Fighter Squadron moves from Guadalcanal and 70th Fighter Squadron moves from New Georgia to Sansapor with P-38s; and 69th Bombardment Squadron (Medium) and 390th Bombardment Squadron (Medium),
42d Bombardment Group (Medium) moves from Stirling to
Hollandia with B-25s.
RAAF: Lost due to anti-aircraft fire near Babo is P-40N A29-568 (MIA) crashed into Maccluer Gulf.
