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August 7, 1944 Mission to Livron Railroad Bridge
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| 486th | Not assigned to this mission. |
| 487th | Eleven planes of the 487th and one from the 489th comprised the two boxes taking off at 07:35 hours to bomb the Le Voulte bridge at pinpoint N-933809 and N-968775. The first box crossed the bridge with their pattern scoring direct hits which completely destroyed the bridge. Second box had a compact pattern starting short of the center with direct hits on the bridge. The complete southern section of this bridge was knocked out as a result of the bombing. Other squadrons in the formation were severely shelled by anti-aircraft fire although none reached our flight |
| 488th | Not assigned to this mission. |
| 489th | At 0740 hours twelve of our planes lined up for take-off. Carrying a total of 48 thousand-pound bombs, they plastered the Drome River railroad bridge, scoring 100% accuracy. The target was in France. |
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Crew Lists and Mission Reports
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 (Crew list from Quentin Kaiser's web site at Quentin Kaiser) |
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