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July 15, 1944 Mission to the Filattiera Railroad Bridge
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| 486th | Not assigned to this mission. | |
| 487th | Our squadron participated in two missions today. First flight of twelve planes took off at 08:09 and were over the primary target at 09:49, but did not bomb the Ferrara railroad bridge as smoke batteries completely obscured the objective. The formation proceeded to the alternate target, Villa Franca railroad bridge and dropped 48x1000 lb. bombs from 9200' with good results. First box started on the rail bridge and extended across the road bridge with possible hits on both. Second box failed to find the alternate target, but bombed another road bridge. Pattern starting in the marshaling yards east of the target and extending through the factory buildings Ack-ack was heavy, scant and inaccurate, one ship was holed and Lt. Frazier was injured slightly by flak. All planes returned safely to the base. | |
| 488th | Not assigned to this mission. | |
| 489th | During this period [July 14 - 20] we have been unusually active, striking hard and relentlessly at targets in Northern Italy. |
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