December 1944 - 461st Bombardment Group

From:
To:
Headquarters Fifteenth Air Force, 24 December 1944.
All Concerned
“The following personal command message received from General Twining quoted
for your information:
“I am repeating message received from the Chief of Staff, United States Army,
General George C. Marshall. Please see that it has complete distribution to all
personnel.”
“’We will, no doubt, have to wait until the end of the war to appreciate the full effect
of the strategic bombing of Germany but from what we already learned, there is no
question that it has played a major part in making possible the successes that our ground
armies have gained during the past six months. My congratulations to you and all the
members of the Fifteenth Air Force for the vital part they have played and for the high
standard of efficiency they have displayed.’”
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