TARGET: OIL INSTALLATION NANTEUIL, FRANCE 7 AUGUST, 1944 Oil dumps and bridges over a wide area of France were the…
457th Bomb Group Association
TARGET: DAIMLER-BENZ ENGINE WORKS GENSHAGEN, GERMANY 6 AUGUST, 1944 The target for the 457th was in the Berlin area, the…
TARGET: FUEL DUMP NIENBURG, GERMANY 5 AUGUST, 1944 The heavy bomber effort was made by twenty-two combat wings against oil…
TARGET: AIRFIELD FIEFS AND COUBRONNE, FRANCE 4 AUGUST, 1944 For its second operation of the day, while the Anklam mission…
TARGET: ANKLIN AIR DEPOT ANKLAM, GERMANY 4 AUGUST, 1944 Following virtually the same route of its mission of 18 July,…
Written by: Don Charles Osborne Published: 2009 Bailout, Don Charles Osborne’s memoir of his service in the Second World War,…
TARGET: MARSHALLING YARDS STRASBOURG, FRANCE 3 AUGUST, 1944 Strategically, Strasbourg was the most important traffic funnel between Aachen and the…
TARGET: AIRFIELD CHATEAUDUN, FRANCE 1 AUGUST, 1944 French airfields, bridges, oil depots and No Balls were the targets of the…
TARGET: BMW AERO ENGINE WORKS MUNICH, GERMANY 31 JULY, 1944 The 457th Group, together with seven other combat wings, was…
TARGET: LEUNA SYNTHETIC OIL PLANT MERSBERG, GERMANY 29 JULY, 1944 The Heavies attacked the Leuna synthetic oil plant again. The…