TARGET: VILLAROCHE AIRFIELD LE BOURGET, MELUN, VILLAROCHE, FRANCE 14 JUNE, 1944 Eighth Air Force reconnaissance revealed the Luftwaffe had committed…
457th Bomb Group Association
TARGET: AIRFIELD VITRY-en-ARTOIS, FRANCE 12 JUNE, 1944 The Eighth Air Force put 1,500 bombers aloft for widespread attacks on French…
TARGET: BERNAY-ST. MARTIN AIRFIELD BERNAY-ST. MARTIN, FRANCE 11 JUNE, 1944 On the sixth day of the invasion, the Eighth Air…
TARGET: GAEL AIRFIELD GAEL, FRANCE 10 JUNE, 1944 After a lapse of one day, the invasion aerial offensive was renewed…
TARGET: DOUBLE RAILROAD INTERSECTION ETAMPES, FRANCE 8 JUNE, 1944 The 457th sent a complete Combat Wing of three 12- aircraft…
TARGET: HIGHWAY INTERSECTION FALAISE, FRANCE 7 JUNE, 1944 On the morning of the second day of the invasion, the 457th…
TARGET: DEFENSIVE POSITION ARROMANCHES BEACH, FRANCE 6 JUNE, 1944 INVASION DAY At 0100, Colonel Luper entered the briefing room. The…
TARGET: MARSHALLING YARDS PARIS, FRANCE 4 JUNE, 1944 The 457th put an entire Combat Wing into the air, attacking with…
TARGET: HOWITZER GUN BATTERY NESLES, FRANCE 3 JUNE, 1944 The Group dispatched two boxes of eighteen ships each to targets…
TARGET: COASTAL GUN POSITION HARDELOT, FRANCE 2 JUNE, 1944 The final pre-invasion aerial assault was under way. The target was…