340th Bomb Group History

340th Bombardment Group History

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340th BG Squadron Insignia
	486th B.S.	487th B.S.	488th B.S.	489th B.S.
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April 20, 1945 Mission to Recoaro Terme Army Group "C" Headquarters

Squadron War Diary

340th HQ Diary Though our crews missed two bridge targets today, at Ostiglia and San Ambrogio, their squadron mates assigned to the task of bombing German Army Group "C" headquarters near Recoaro Termi, redeemed the day, by walloping six or seven of the vital buildings, the eyrie of Col. General Von Vietlinghoff and his operations and intelligence staff. No telling how much we set the Jerries back with this one... Excellent results were obtained on another attack on the rail fill at Volargne.

486th Two targets today and one of them was very interesting. It was the German army group headquarters for Italy. It was well hit and we hope we caught a lot of brass with their pants down. More trouble with the SHORAN equipment aborted the other mission.

487th The target for six bombers taking off at 1135 hours was the German Headquarters at Recoaro, Italy. They also encountered flak coming from Ferrara although this was accurate and one plane was holed. Buildings #10, #11 and #12 (our target) were well covered. Direct hits were observed on all three buildings.

488th Not assigned to this mission

489th Not assigned to this mission

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Squadron	War Diary
340th HQ Diary	Though our crews missed two bridge targets today, at Ostiglia and San Ambrogio, their squadron mates assigned to the task of bombing German Army Group "C" headquarters near Recoaro Termi, redeemed the day, by walloping six or seven of the vital buildings, the eyrie of Col. General Von Vietlinghoff and his operations and intelligence staff. No telling how much we set the Jerries back with this one... Excellent results were obtained on another attack on the rail fill at Volargne.
486th	Two targets today and one of them was very interesting. It was the German army group headquarters for Italy. It was well hit and we hope we caught a lot of brass with their pants down. More trouble with the SHORAN equipment aborted the other mission.
487th	The target for six bombers taking off at 1135 hours was the German Headquarters at Recoaro, Italy. They also encountered flak coming from Ferrara although this was accurate and one plane was holed. Buildings #10, #11 and #12 (our target) were well covered. Direct hits were observed on all three buildings.
488th	Not assigned to this mission
489th	Not assigned to this mission

Additional Information:

Author Web Link

Dal Lago, Rasia, Trivelli,
Valente, Versolato These five authors have written an entire book about this raid on the German HQ. The title of the book is: Bombs Away! It can be found here: Libreriauniversitaria.it
A description of the contents of the book are here: In Italian and In English

Author	Web Link
Dal Lago, Rasia, Trivelli, Valente, Versolato	These five authors have written an entire book about this raid on the German HQ. The title of the book is: Bombs Away! It can be found here: Libreriauniversitaria.it A description of the contents of the book are here: In Italian and In English

Crew Lists and Mission Reports

Crew List 486th

Crew List 487th

Operations and Sortie Reports

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