U.S. EIGHTH AIR FORCE TESTS DAYLIGHT PRECISION BOMBING
Rouen, Normandy, Occupied France • August 17, 1942 On July 4, 1942, a dozen Douglas A-20 Havoc medium bombers took off from a small, grassy airstrip in Norfolk, about 100 miles/161 km northeast of London, England, and headed for Nazi-occupied Holland. Half the bombers were American, part of the U.S. Army Air Force’s Eighth Air Force 15th…