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A BACK TO NORMANDY HISTORICAL EDITION MAY 1944 31 DAILY EDITIONS

May 1944

Daily Normandy — every edition of May 1944, day by day.
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1 May 1 Mobile Photographic Special Missions Unit stayed at Stansted Essex on 01 may 1944 467 events 2 May Handley Page Halifax III (LW415 AL-K) on a mission to Saint-Ghislain on 1944-05-02 441 events 3 May 1236 Quartermaster Company (Service Group) stayed at Metfield Suffolk, East on 03 may 1944 409 events 4 May Avro Lancaster III (EE148 UM-S2) on a mission to Mailly-le-Camp on 1944-05-04 592 events 5 May 18 Weather Squadron, Weather Detachment 366 stayed at Metfield Suffolk, East on 05 may 1944 532 events 6 May 2 Mobile Photographic Special Missions Unit stayed at Membury Berkshire on 06 may 1944 516 events 7 May 2107 Engineer Fire Fighting Platoon (Aviation) stayed at Metfield Suffolk, East on 07 may 1944 554 events 8 May The 106 Sqdn left from Metheringham at 1944-05-08 at 22:19. Loc or duty Salbris 542 events 9 May 2973 Finance Distribution Detachment (Provisional) stayed at Metfield Suffolk, East on 09 may 1944 549 events 10 May The 106 Sqdn left from Metheringham at 1944-05-10 at 22:25. Loc or duty Gennevilliers 519 events 11 May Handley Page Halifax III (HX314 QB-C) on a mission to Frisian Islands on 1944-05-11 562 events 12 May Handley Page Halifax III (LK867 MP-P) on a mission to Trouville-sur-Mer on 1944-05-12 507 events 13 May Handley Page Halifax III (LW499 C8-G) on a mission to Hasselt on 1944-05-13 473 events 14 May 40 Mobile Communication Squadron, Detachment (Zone of Interior) stayed at Lymington Hampshire on 14 may 1944 448 events 15 May 44 Armored Infantry Battalion, Headquarters stayed at Upper Slaughter Gloucestershire on 15 may 1944 516 events 16 May 491 Bomb Group (Heavy) (-), Group HQ Squadron stayed at Metfield Suffolk, East on 16 may 1944 505 events 17 May Mosquito XVI (ML988 8K-) on a mission to Berlin on 1944-05-17 473 events 18 May 559 Quartermaster Battalion, HQ & HQ Detachment stayed at Teddesley Hall Staffordshire on 18 may 1944 487 events 19 May 62 Armored Field Artillery Battalion, Medical Detachment stayed at Piddlehinton Dorset on 19 may 1944 529 events 20 May Staff sergeant Hamley Raymond D (Service #: 20213665) died on 1944-05-20 572 events 21 May Captain Smith Malcolm A (Service #: O-025580) died on 1944-05-21 556 events 22 May 867 Chemical Company (Air Operations) (-) stayed at Metfield Suffolk, East on 22 may 1944 611 events 23 May 983 Military Police Company (Aviation), Detachment A stayed at Metfield Suffolk, East on 23 may 1944 583 events 24 May Short Stirling III (BK784 WP-M) on a mission to Frisian Islands on 1944-05-24 548 events 25 May First Lieutenant Warren William T Jr (Service #: O-684092) died on 1944-05-25 262 events 26 May Private First Class Wood John W (Service #: 36576269) died on 1944-05-26 12 events 27 May Second Lieutenant Van Houten Melvin P (Service #: O-806178) died on 1944-05-27 28 events 28 May Avro Lancaster III (LM545 AR-J) on a mission to Merville-Franceville-Plage on 1944-05-28 89 events 29 May First Lieutenant Hewitt Robert C (Service #: O-666039) died on 1944-05-29 28 events 30 May Mustang III UZ-A lost at Dalmsholte (gem. Ommen) on 30-05-1944 (SGLO ref: T3743) 20 events 31 May 983 Military Police Company (Aviation), Detachment A stayed at Metfield Suffolk, East on 31 may 1944 618 events
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