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12th AIR FORCE

57th BOMB WING

340th BOMB GROUP (M) 

MISSIONS AUGUST 14, 1944

 

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Simultaneous Missions Frejus and St Topez Gun Positions   

487th and 488th Squadrons of the 340th Bomb Group on August 14, 1944

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St Tropez, France today

 

 

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Simultaneous Missions Frejus and St Topez Gun Positions   

487th and 488th Squadrons of the 340th Bomb Group on August 14, 1944

 

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Frejus, France today

 

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486th BS Mission sheet credit:  Herman Voss

 

(487th BS Crew sheet from Harry George)

 

 

Aug 14, 1944  Below credit:  Dan Setzer and 57th Bomb Wing website

 

487th

Tonight was one of the most eventful the Squadron has ever had. Immediately after supper is was announced that the invasion of Southern France would begin at 08:00 A.M. in the morning. 487th is to be the first formation over the invasion beaches and from 2:00 A.M. on crews will be getting up, briefed and taking off. Roger Lynch, Operations C.O. was really sweating it out as he will be responsible for getting the men up at the proper time. Combat crews were given the dope at a Group meeting tonight. Everyone is tense in anticipation of the coming event.

 

 

489th 

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 the 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.