Whether daytime or night-time, the Mitchell units in the MTO bombed and strafed all sorts of targets that included airfields, artillery positions and anti-aircraft artillery (AAA) batteries, barracks, bridges, canals, convoys, command, control and communications centres, factories, hangars, railway lines, roads, ships, shipyards, tanks, trains and rolling stock, troops, trucks and anything else being exploited and/or operated by the Axis powers.