340th Bomb Group History

340th Bombardment Group History

340th BG Patch

340th BG Squadron Insignia
	486th B.S.	487th B.S.	488th B.S.	489th B.S.
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August 31, 1944 Mission to the Cittadella Bridges

Squadron War Diary

486th Not assinged to this mission.

487th Twelve bombers of this Squadron took off at 07:50 hours with a 48x1000 bomb load to bomb a railroad bridge at Cittadella in Northern Italy. Patterns of both flights scored direct hits in the center and east approach. Heavy, intense and accurate anti-aircraft fire harassed the formation, but holed only one plane in the 487th flight

488th From mission report: 1st box, compact pattern across east side of bridge, 2nd box, Just short of bridge.
Heavy, intense and accurate flak at known locations and at G-6935 two flak boats.

489th Not assigned to this mission

Target in 1944

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Squadron	War Diary
486th	Not assinged to this mission.
487th	Twelve bombers of this Squadron took off at 07:50 hours with a 48x1000 bomb load to bomb a railroad bridge at Cittadella in Northern Italy. Patterns of both flights scored direct hits in the center and east approach. Heavy, intense and accurate anti-aircraft fire harassed the formation, but holed only one plane in the 487th flight
488th	From mission report: 1st box, compact pattern across east side of bridge, 2nd box, Just short of bridge. Heavy, intense and accurate flak at known locations and at G-6935 two flak boats.
489th	Not assigned to this mission

Crew Lists and Mission Reports

On the crew list for the 488th Bomb Squadron below, the bombardier
in plane 8J is listed as 2nd Lt. J. Heller. This is Joseph Heller, the
author of the novel Catch-22.

Crew List 487th

Crew List 488th


Operations & Sortie Report

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