10/28/43 Mission:
Weather prevents most Twelfth Air Force operations planned for the day. No missions are flown by the XII Bomber Command. In Italy, XII Air Support Command A-36's hit several highways and bridges in advance of the battleline and attack gun positions in the Vairano area and transportation targets in the Rome area.
10/29/43 Mission:
the XII Air Support Command, NATBF, and RAF DAF are forced by bad weather to abandon several missions in support of ground forces. Troops and gun positions are attacked on 2 occasions and several bridges are hit; Giulianova harbor and shipping are successfully attacked.
10/30/43 Mission:
NATBF B-25's bomb Frosinone; fighter-bombers, mainly of the XII Air Support Command, hit bridges, junctions, shipping, marshalling yard, gun positions, and vehicles at several locations, including Giulianova, Ancona, Ortona, Sessa Aurunca, Mignano, and Cassino.
10/30/43
From: Emma Stafford
To: Mr. & Mrs. Cyrus B. Stafford
Dear Mother and Dad—
Enclosed is a money order for each of you to get your Christmas for your other children. Your gift from me will come later so just spend this any way you wish and plan on how you will buy your gift from me when your gift check arrives. Do not say the gift to others are from me—no one need know I sent this money. –Em.