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** US Eighth Air Force inauspiciously flies its first mission in Europe using borrowed British planes and bombs targets in the Netherlands, such as De Kooy airfield attached to Den Helder naval base.
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** Establishment of United States VIII Bomber Command, later to become the Eighth Air Force, in Savannah, Georgia.
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