Official Description

125 9th Bomb division bombers hit Plattling airfield. Fighters escort 9th Bomb Division, fly airfield cover, carry out armed reconnaissance in Germany and Czechoslovakia, drop leaflets, and cooperate with US XII Corps as its forces cross into Austria SE of Passau, and XX Corps as it begins full-scale assault across the Danube at Regensburg. Fighters claim 19 combat victories.