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Index to Annexes
Page of
Report
1
Subject
Introductory Note
14
Tactical Redeployment
29 High Beach Cover
30 Shipping Route Cover
40 Field Order No.1
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58
Operations Order
No. 168A
Attacks on Rail Bridges
58
63
Rail Cutting
Reconnaissance
66 Airfield Construction
69 Communications
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Ninth Air Force Organizational
Chart - 9 June 1944.
Tactical Disposition Ninth Air
Force Units - 6 Jun3 1944.
IX Ftr Cmd Main Shipping Route
Cover, Beach Cover - (D) Day.
IX Ftr Cmd Main Shipping Route
Cover.
IX Trp Car Cmd Routes Overland,
Channel Corridors - (D) Day.
Ninth Air Force Assault Phase
Targets - (D) Day.
Bridges Attacked by Ninth' Air
Force - May thru June 1944.
Rail-cuts in June 1944.
Reconnaissance Plan of Ninth
Air Force - (D) Day.
status of American Built Airfields
on the Continent - 30 June 1944.
Air Support Nets
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ORGANIZATION Of THE NINTH AIR FORCE
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