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April 19, 1944 Mission to Piombino Harbor
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| 486th | Not assigned to this mission. | |
| 487th | The entire squadron and all our planes are now together at Alesan. First mission from our new base took off today at 12:14 to bomb harbor installations at Piombino, Italy. Our six planes were over the target at 13:50 hours dropping their bomb load from 12000' with an excellent degree of success. Pattern started at the shore line and extended across harbor installations to the right of large water tank and covered large buildings within pattern. Ack-ack was heavy, moderate and fairly accurate. One of our ships was slightly holed. All planes and crews returned safely to the field.. | |
| 488th | Mission to Piombino harbor. Got two large ships. | |
| 489th | Not mentioned in diary. |
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