340th BG Squadron Insignia
	486th B.S.	487th B.S.	488th B.S.	489th B.S.
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January 30, 1945 Mission to Lavis Diversion Bridge

Squadron	War Diary
340th HQ Diary	Yesterday [January 30th] operations took our crews to the south bridge on the Lavis rail diversion of the Brenner line. Target was well hit. A second objective, the Lavis railroad station yards, containing 150 cars, was also hard hit, and many of the cars destroyed.
486th	Not assigned to this mission
487th	Lavis Railroad Diversion was the target for twelve 487th bombers this morning. The formation encountered heavy, scant but fairly accurate anti-aircraft fire which holed two ships although no injury to crew members was incurred. Evidently the Diversion remained standing as the first box overshot and the pattern of the second crossed the tracks immediately north of th west span. General Knapp was in the Group again today to make heroes out of combat men and a few of the favored ground personnel. Many of the 487th men to be decorated were absent on account of the mission - no one on the mission was disappointed either. It's surprising how they dread the decoration ceremony particularly when the Army considers it quite a morale factor.
488th	Not assigned to this mission
489th	Two missions were run today: One a bombing mission, the other a "nickelling" [leaflet drop] mission. Interrogation revealed that both were successful.

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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