340th Bomb Group History

340th Bombardment Group History

340th BG Patch

340th BG Squadron Insignia
	486th B.S.	487th B.S.	488th B.S.	489th B.S.
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August 14, 1944 Mission to Cape Camarat Gun Positions

Squadron War Diary

486th Not assigned to this mission.

487th Not assigned to this mission.

488th Not assigned to this mission.

489th We struck at Southern France again today but failed to demolish the target. Visibility over the target was bad and was mainly responisble for the failure of this mission.

This evening we were given some advance information of a momentous nature. Tomorrow morning at 0800 hours Southern France will be invaded. The Twelfth and teh Fifteenth Air Forces will be out in full strength. This Group alone is sending up at least seventy-two planes.

The day which all of us have been anticipating is about to come at long last. If everything goes well, perhaps we shall move to France within the next month. All of us will be glad to move, although this is an ideal location. We have been here longer than we have been at any other place. Accustomed to being on the move about once a month, we have become restless now that we have been in this one spot almost four months.

Target in 1944

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Target Today

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Squadron	War Diary
486th	Not assigned to this mission.
487th	Not assigned to this mission.
488th	Not assigned to this mission.
489th	We struck at Southern France again today but failed to demolish the target. Visibility over the target was bad and was mainly responisble for the failure of this mission. This evening we were given some advance information of a momentous nature. Tomorrow morning at 0800 hours Southern France will be invaded. The Twelfth and teh Fifteenth Air Forces will be out in full strength. This Group alone is sending up at least seventy-two planes. The day which all of us have been anticipating is about to come at long last. If everything goes well, perhaps we shall move to France within the next month. All of us will be glad to move, although this is an ideal location. We have been here longer than we have been at any other place. Accustomed to being on the move about once a month, we have become restless now that we have been in this one spot almost four months.

Target in 1944
No Photos taken due to cloud cover.
Target Today
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489th Squadron

340th BG Squadron Insignia
	486th B.S.	487th B.S.	488th B.S.	489th B.S.
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