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 Rail Station Yard

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	No mention
487th	Not assigned to this mission.
488th	Thirteen planes to Lavis marshalling yards, Italy. This was an emergency target given at the last minute in order to try to stop two German Divisions from getting out of Italy. The marshalling yards was thoroughly hit and we again got out 100% bombing accuracy.
489th	Not assigned to this mission

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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