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August 3, 1944 Mission to Var River Bridge #3 (Mission #247)
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| 486th | Mission to S France again today. No flak left the men speechless. Squadron did well and the PI says the bridge was destroyed. |
| 487th | Not assigned to this mission. |
| 488th | From mission report: Compact pattern started just short of the center of bridge and crossed bridge. Possible hits on center and west approach. |
| 489th | Our mission today was the railroad bridge east of Nice, France, which we missed yesterday. This time we
hit it. The boys have "sweated out" these French missions, believing that any mission over the southern part of that country would be very hot. They were pleasantly surprised not to run into any flak or fighter opposition. Every one is hoping that they will continue to have "milk runs." |
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Crew Lists and Mission Reports
| On the crew list for the 488th Bomb Squadron below, the bombardier in plane 8Q is listed as 2nd Lt. J. Heller. This is Joseph Heller, the author of the novel Catch-22. |
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