TUESDAY, 12 DECEMBER 1944
ALASKA (Eleventh Air Force): The weather aircraft aborts the mission due to the weather.
CHINA THEATER (Fourteenth Air Force): Six B-25s bomb Kutkai, Burma, damaging 3 warehouses and 2 other buildings. 50+ P-40s, P-51s, and P-38s on armed reconnaissance attack many targets of opportunity including town areas, road and rail traffic, and supplies at or near Wan Pa-Hsa, Burma, Chiengmai, Thailand, and Sinantien, Paoching, Hengyang, Changsha, Kweilin, Nan Tan, Hochih, and Szeenhsien, China. Several fighter-bombers drop napalm on Yangtong Airfield. The 2d Combat Cargo Squadron, 1st Combat Cargo Group, moves from Imphal to Tsuyung, China.
INDIA-BURMA THEATER (Tenth Air Force): In Burma, twelve B-25s bomb several storage areas north of Lashio; 20+ P-47s knock out bridges at Namyao and Inailong, Burma, and Kunlong, China, and damage others at Ho-hko, Burma and Hinlong, and Kunlong, China; 40+ fighter-bombers hit Japanese HQ, trucks, town areas, troop concentrations, and supplies at Sedo, Pale, Chaunggyi, Tada-u, Hsenwi, Shwebo, and Thabyetha. 263 transport sorties are flown to forward areas. The 166th Liaison Squadron (Commando), 1st Air Commando Group, moves from Yazagyo to Inbaung, Burma with UC-64s and L-5s.
AAFPOA (Seventh Air Force): 24 B-24s from Saipan pound Iwo Jima. Individual B-24s from Saipan and Guam fly five snooper strikes against Iwo Jima during the night of 12/13 Dec.
HQ AAF (Twentieth Air Force): The service groups of the 313th Bombardment Wing (Very Heavy) arrives on Tinian.
SOUTHWEST PACIFIC AREA [SWPA, Far East Air Force (FEAF)]: B-24s, with fighter
cover, bomb Bacolod Airfield on Negros while B-25s hit San
Roque Airfield.
B-24s pound Kendari Airfield. In the Ambon-Ceram-Boeroe area B-25s hit three airfields and attack barges. A-20s hit Efman Airfield. HQ 4th Photographic Group (Reconnaissance) moves
from Guadalcanal to Morotai.
The 460th Fighter Squadron, 348th Fighter Group, moves from Tacloban to Tanauan with P-47s.
RAAF: Lost on a training flight is P-40N Kittyhawk A29-601 (MIA).