20 November 1944
STRATEGIC OPERATIONS (Fifteenth Air Force): 192 B-24s and B-17s bomb the Blechhammer S oil refinery in Germany and the town of Prerov, Czechoslovakia, a target of opportunity; 284 others encounter bad weather and attack several alternate targets and targets of opportunity in Czechoslovakia including the town of Zlin and marshalling yards at Brno, Hodonin, and Breclav and other targets of opportunity in C and SE Europe. In Yugoslavia, 92 B-24s attack the Sarajevo marshalling yard, and railroad bridges at Doboj, Zenica, and Fojnica and 11 P-38s divebomb a marshalling yard at Brod, while 43 others strafe communications between Esztergom and Veszprem, Hungary, and Vienna, Austria; other fighters fly bomber escort, reconnaissance, and reconnaissance escort. |