340th Bomb Group History

340th Bombardment Group History

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340th BG Squadron Insignia
	486th B.S.	487th B.S.	488th B.S.	489th B.S.
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August 16, 1944 Mission to Le Pousin Road Bridge

Squadron War Diary

486th Not assigned to this mission.

487th Another early morning mission with combat crews arising at 05:00 in preparation for an early takeoff. However, it wasn't until 06:48 that our twelve planes took off to bomb a road bridge at Le Pousin, France. The formation reached their target at 08:30 and dropped their 48,000 lb. bomb load from 9000' to 9300' with a fair degree of success. The first box bombed across the bridge with two direct hits east of the center of the bridge. The second box bombed across the west side and west approach to the bridge with black smoke observed on the target as a result. No ack-ack or other enemy opposition was encountered thus chalking up another “milk-run” in the French campaign......News reports of the landing in southern France are very encouraging and the boys are building high hopes for the States by Christmas 1944 – here's hoping.

488th Not assigned to this mission.

489th Not mentioned in diary.

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Squadron	War Diary
486th	Not assigned to this mission.
487th	Another early morning mission with combat crews arising at 05:00 in preparation for an early takeoff. However, it wasn't until 06:48 that our twelve planes took off to bomb a road bridge at Le Pousin, France. The formation reached their target at 08:30 and dropped their 48,000 lb. bomb load from 9000' to 9300' with a fair degree of success. The first box bombed across the bridge with two direct hits east of the center of the bridge. The second box bombed across the west side and west approach to the bridge with black smoke observed on the target as a result. No ack-ack or other enemy opposition was encountered thus chalking up another “milk-run” in the French campaign......News reports of the landing in southern France are very encouraging and the boys are building high hopes for the States by Christmas 1944 – here's hoping.
488th	Not assigned to this mission.
489th	Not mentioned in diary.

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487th Squadron

489th Squadron

340th BG Squadron Insignia
	486th B.S.	487th B.S.	488th B.S.	489th B.S.
	Click on the squadron insignia above for links to digitized squadron histories