340th BG Squadron Insignia
	486th B.S.	487th B.S.	488th B.S.	489th B.S.
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February 20, 1945 Mission to Calcinato Railroad Bridge

Squadron	War Diary
340th HQ Diary	There was a nickeling mission today, 12 planes dropping "Frontpost," our German language propaganda newspaper, on positions at Ferrara and Bologna. The idea of this project is to get the Germans to look forward to this delivery service and to the well-edited, factual account of world news and particularly war news and developments inside Germany that "Frontpost" presents. Such a paper is a potent propaganda weapon... Other bombers of the 340th cut the approaches on the Romano di Lombardia rail bridge and probably cut the rail line at the Calcinato railroad bridge.
486th	Not assigned to this mission
487th	Not assigned to this mission.
488th	Sent twelve planes to Romano di Lombardo rail bridge, Italy and Calcinato rail bridge, Italy. Got 25% on the first and 100% on the second.
489th	We rean a successful mission to Northern Italy, knocking out another bridge.

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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