340th BG Squadron Insignia
	486th B.S.	487th B.S.	488th B.S.	489th B.S.
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August 31, 1944 Mission to Piave-Susegana Railroad Bridge

Squadron	War Diary
Group HQ	Briefing was scheduled at 6:00 A.M. Target was to be a five hour affair taking the Group to a maximum distance into Central France fringing on the 9th or 8th Air Force Jurisdiction. No information of Flak or Enemy Aircraft in the vicinity was available. 9th and 8th Air Force Radar were advised of the approach of our ships. A very sleepy crew appeared just at dawn. Because of weather the mission was again delayed till the afternoon. At noon the Group was stood down...
486th	Early briefing, early mission to N. of Venice. Results - good - the bridges are down and we received 71%.
487th	Not assigned to this mission.
488th	Not assigned to this mission
489th	Finally we ran a mission. After a number of dry runs, we got our planes into the air and gave Jerry a sound pasting. We hit him this time in Northern Italy and left one of his bridges scattered in the river it once spanned.

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