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| Click on the squadron insignia above for links to digitized squadron histories | ||||
September 4, 1944 Mission to the Pontevico Railroad Bridge
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| Group HQ | 57th Wing had a banner day today. "Decommissioning" nine bridge targets. For its part the 340th hit the Canneto, Pontevico, and Sesto Calende bridges. Pontevico bridge was amazingly completely wiped out. Sesto Calende received beautiful patterns but unfortunately most of the bombs were a shade over or a shade short. Canneto also had two or three direct hits, but lost no spans. |
| 486th | Not assigned to this mission |
| 487th | Not assigned to this mission. |
| 488th | Eighteen 488th planes to Pontivico rail bridge, Italy. It was our first target that we as an individual squadron was ever assinged. Got only 76% but completely knocked out the bridge. |
| 489th | Not assigned to this mission |
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Crew Lists and Mission Reports
| On the crew list for the 488th Bomb Squadron below, the bombardier in plane 8J is listed as 1st Lt. J. Heller. This is Joseph Heller, the author of the novel Catch-22. |
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