TUESDAY, 26 SEPTEMBER 1944
ALASKA (Eleventh Air Force): A B-24 flies weather reconnaissance; later four
B-24s radar-bomb Suribachi Airfield.
BURMA-INDIA (Tenth Air Force): In Burma, 2 P-47 flights hit targets in the
Bhamo-Myothit area, including Sinkin, Momauk, and Nanhlaing; 3 other flights
hit targets in the Pinwe-Mawlu area, including the town of Nyaungbintha; 20+
P-47s in 2 flights hit Tingka and in China, hit fuel storage at Chefang and
repair shops at Wanting. In China, 9 B-25s blast troop concentrations and stores
in Hinlong; and nineteen B-24s haul fuel to Liuchow, Yangtong, and Yungning.
CHINA (Fourteenth Air Force): In China, 12 B-25s bomb Lungfukwan and Mangshih
while several P-40s hit targets of opportunity in same areas; 6 B-25s and 4
P-38s attack and slightly damage the Dara bridge and destroy road machinery
nearby; about 50 P-40s and P-51s continue armed reconnaissance over the vast
inland areas of S China, attacking troops, buildings, and other targets of opportunity.
STRATEGIC OPERATIONS (Twentieth Air Force): 83 B-29s, staging from Chengtu bomb Anshan most of them striking the Showa Steel Works with poor results;
15 others bomb Dairen, Sinsiang, and various targets of opportunity. During
the night of 26/27 Sep, Japanese aircraft bomb the Chengtu area, damaging 5
B-29s; this attack along with the one on 8 Sep set the pattern for Japanese
raids which usually follow B-29 missions and continue until 19 Dec but are of
light nature and annoying rather than seriously damaging.
AAFPOA (Seventh Air Force): Two B-24s from Saipan on armed reconnaissance bomb Marcus. During the night of 26/27 a B-24 snooper hits Iwo Jima.
B-25s bomb Nauru. During
the night of 26/27 September B-24s hit Wake.
SOUTHWEST PACIFIC AREA [SWPA, Far East Air Force (FEAF)]: B-25s bomb Maumere
Bay, Flores. B-25s and B-24s bomb Liang Airfield and Kendari Airfield. P-40s hit Kokas; the 31st Bombardment
Squadron (Heavy), 5th Bombardment Group (Heavy), moves from Wakde to Noemfoor with B-24s; the 424th Bombardment Squadron (Heavy), 307th Bombardment Group
(Medium), based on Wakde with B-24s, begins operating from Noemfoor.
