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The first bombing mission undertaken by aircraft of the 447th took place on Christmas Eve 1943, when their B-17s were sent to flatten a suspected V-1 flying bomb site near Saint Omer, a mission which would set the tone for a busy few months to come. Fully committed to the campaign in preparation for D-Day, the 447th would be sent against targets such as airfields, rail marshalling yards, suspected rocket sites, submarine pens and naval installations across France, Belgium and into Germany itself, interspersed with joining other units in concentrated attacks against city targets. On D-Day itself, the unit bombed the beachhead sectors in advance of the landings, following pathfinder aircraft for target identification.The weeks following D-Day saw no let-up in mission activity for the Fortresses of the 447th, as they undertook almost daily missions in support numerous strategic objectives, which included the Battle of the Bulge and Operation Varsity. They flew their final combat mission on 21st April 1945, targeting a marshalling yard at Ingolstadt in Germany and by the summer of the same year, all serviceable aircraft were flown back to the US, where the 708th Bomb Squadron was inactivated on 7th November 1945.
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第 447 航空隊的飛機執行的第一次轟炸任務發生在 1943 年的平安夜，當時他們的 B-17 飛機被派往聖奧梅爾附近夷平疑似 V-1 飛行炸彈基地，這次任務為接下來幾個月的繁忙工作定下了基調 來。 全力投入為諾曼底登陸做準備的戰役，第 447 團將被派往法國、比利時和德國境內的機場、鐵路編組站、疑似火箭發射場、潛艇圍欄和海軍設施等目標，穿插與其他部隊會合 集中攻擊城市目標。 在諾曼底登陸當天，該部隊在登陸前轟炸了灘頭陣地，跟隨探路者飛機進行目標識別。諾曼底登陸後的幾週，第 447 堡壘的任務活動絲毫沒有鬆懈，因為他們幾乎承擔了 支持眾多戰略目標的日常任務，其中包括 Bulge 戰役和 Operation Varsity。 他們於 1945 年 4 月 21 日執行了最後一次戰鬥任務，目標是德國因戈爾施塔特的編組場，到同年夏天，所有可用的飛機都飛回美國，第 708 轟炸機中隊於 1945 年 11 月 7 日解散。
