340th BG Squadron Insignia
	486th B.S.	487th B.S.	488th B.S.	489th B.S.
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August 28, 1944 Mission to Tarare Railroad Bridge

Squadron	War Diary
Group HQ	After having the first designated target, another bridge, it was again canceled because it was already in the hands of the 7th Army, the eventual target was the Tarare RR bridge at S-622016. Due to heavy haze but one box dropped and these bombs were wide of the target.
486th	Target presented at 0555 briefing was a few miles from Lyon - a long, long trip. Only one box of the 486th dropped - results: some say possible hits, some say pattern was short.
487th	Not assigned to this mission.
488th	Not assigned to this mission
489th	A R.R. viaduct at Tarare, France was assinged to us as our target for the day. Haze, with 1/10 cloud coverage at 4000 to 5000 feet, made it impossible to sight the viaduct and all the thousand pounders were brought back.

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340th BG Squadron Insignia
	486th B.S.	487th B.S.	488th B.S.	489th B.S.
	Click on the squadron insignia above for links to digitized squadron histories