6 September 1944

STRATEGIC OPERATIONS (Fifteenth Air Force): 542 B-24s attack communications targets in Rumania, Yugoslavia and Hungary and troop and tank concentrations in S Yugoslavia; in Rumania, 2 marshalling yards are hit at Oradea, and 2 nearby bridges over the Sebes Koros River; targets in Yugoslavia are a marshalling yard at Novi Sad, a bridge at Belgrade, and tanks and troops at Leskovac; and a marshalling yard at Nyiregyhaza, Hungary. 2 bombers, with fighter escort, evacuate interned airmen from Bucharest, Rumania.