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August 11, 1944 Mission to St. Tropez West Gun Positions
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| Group HQ | No doubt as prelude to coming attraction is the changed nature of our target. Permanent gun positions located in the Marseilles area. Of four pin-pointed areas as our targets for today. Three were thoroughly eliminated by excellent pin-point bombing with the 4th missed by 150 yards. No flak was encountered at any of the pin-points giving the boys a well deserved respite from the blood curdling experiences of the past few missions...... |
| 486th | Not assigned to this mission. |
| 487th | Not assigned to this mission. |
| 488th | From mission report: 1st box missed to left about 1,500 ft. 2nd box possible hits on target. |
| 489th | These two days [August 11 -12] have not been particularly eventful. On each day we flew a mission over Southern France. |
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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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