Operations slowed down in September, to 23 missions, as Allied armies reached to the farthest points their supplies would allow. This, however, took them near to the German border in the areas of Metz and Belgium.

The missions were totally uneventful but for a strafing run on Nellingen Airfield on the 13th, with claims of 5-l enemy planes. The single mission of 14 September saw Capt. Ruscitto leading 13 P-47s in escort of an Aphrodite Mission. This was a mission where a mother-plane B-17 used radio control to guide an explosives-loaded B-17 to a specified target, and then flew it into the target. On this day the target was Hemmingstedt, and the “baby” was guided to an impact 150 yards from the target.

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