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301st BG (H), Mission 219, Marshalling Yard Verona - Related Files

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	301st BG (H), Mission 341, Oradea Marshalling Yard 6 September 1944 STRATEGIC OPERATIONS (Fifteenth Air Force): 542 B-24s attack communications targets in Rumania, Yugoslavia and Hungary and troop and tank concentrations in S Yugoslavia; in Rumania, 2 marshalling yards are hit at Oradea, and 2 nearby bridges over the Sebes Koros River; targets in Yugoslavia are a marshalling yard at Novi Sad, a bridge at Belgrade, and tanks and ...		07/13/2007	594
	301st BG (H), Mission 350, Debrecen Marshalling Yard 21 September 1944 STRATEGIC OPERATIONS (Fifteenth Air Force): 345 B-17s and B-24s attack marshalling yards at Debreczen and Bekescsaba, Hungary, the railroad at Brod, Yugoslavia and in Hungary, highway bridges at Baja, in the Kiskore area, and at Tiszafured, plus the Novi Sad, Yugoslavia railroad bridge; 42 P-38s dive-bomb the Osijek, Yugoslavia marshalling yard; other fighters ...		07/31/2007	514
	461st BG (H(, Mission 181, Kempten Marshalling Yard 22 February 1945 Colonel Lawhon took off in the lead of a thirty-plane four box formation to attack the marshalling yard at Ingolstadt, Germany, on 22 February. Due to impassible weather he was compelled to abandon the primary target and search for a target of opportunity to be bombed visually. The target selected was the marshalling yard at Kempton, Germany. The choke point of ...		05/11/2007	252
	301st BG (H), Mission 396, Medvedov Road Bridge 2 December 1944 STRATEGIC OPERATIONS (Fifteenth Air Force): Around 500 B-17s and B-24s attack Blechhammer N and S and Odertal, Germany oil refineries; the Floridsdorf oil refinery at Vienna and the marshalling yard at Strasshof, Austria; Celldomolk, Hungary marshalling yard; and Medvedov, Czechoslovakia highway bridge, plus scattered targets of opportunity in C and E Eur...		12/14/2007	425
	461st BG (H), Mission 201, Ceske Budejovice Marshalling Yard 24 March 1945 On 24 March the Group bombed again in Czechoslovakia on the first mission in a long time to this country. The target was the marshalling yard at Ceske Budejovice. Captain Thackston led the formation against this undefended target. The patterns around the two aiming points were scattered but both of them carried completely across the marshalling yard. The two roundh...		05/11/2007	324
	301st BG (H), Mission 412, Maribor Marshalling Yard, Slowenia 13 February 1945 STRATEGIC OPERATIONS (Fifteenth Air Force): In the Vienna area of Austria, 640+ B-17s and B-24s with fighter support hit the S ordnance depot, S and SE goods yards and depot, C repair shops, and Matzleinsdorf marshalling yard, and the marshalling yards at Graz, Austria; Sarvar, Hungary; and in Yugoslavia, 2 at Zagreb and 2 at Maribor, the Pula harbor, the Maribo...		07/13/2007	1,345
	461st BG (H), Mission 198, Graz Marshalling Yard 21 March 1945 Target: Graz Marshalling Yard, Austria For Mission No. 198 on 21 March the marshalling yard at Graz turned out to be the alternate target selected for pathfinder bombing. The primary target had been the Bruck Marshalling Yard, Austria, but Major Poole, the formation leader, abandoned it because of poor visibility. One thousand pound general purpose ...		11/21/2009	49
	461st BG (H), Mission 176, Rosenheim - Kolbermoor Marshalling Yards 16 February 1945 On 16 February the Group finally came through with a superior bombing mission when Major Baker led a large formation against the Rosenheim West Marshalling Yard in Germany. A concentrated pattern of bombs fell across the East half of the small marshalling yard with many hits on freight cars, through tracks, and the choke point. With CAVU weather and no flak the ...		05/11/2007	343
	461st BG (H), Mission 204, Graz Marshalling Yards 30 March 1945 Target: Graz Marshalling Yard, Austria Mission No. 204 on the 30th of the month was a four plane "lone wolf' mission with the Vienna North Marshalling Yard as the primary target. Finding that the weather over the Alps was much better than had been briefed, Lt. Miller, who had taken over the lead, decided to abandon the primary target and to hit ...		11/21/2009	10
	466th BG (H), Mission 137, Karlsruhe Marshalling Yard 5 November 1944 The 466th BG put up 35 a/c, and dropped 26,000 lbs. of bombs on the marshalling yards on this mission		06/03/2007	321
	461st BG (H), Mission 76, Miramas Marshalling Yard 6 August 1944 For this mission the strategy of the Fifteenth Air Force, which at the time was not being revealed to Group personnel, continued to anticipate the invasion of southern France. The target was a large Marshalling Yard in the comparatively small town of Miramas, France. With excellent weather, no fighter opposition, and not much flak at the target, Major Goree and Lt....		05/15/2007	343
	301st BG (H), Mission 374, Salzburg Marshalling Yard 17 November 1944 STRATEGIC OPERATIONS (Fifteenth Air Force): 630+ B-17s and B-24s attack Blechhammer S oil refinery, Germany; Floridsdorf oil refinery in Vienna, Austria; the industrial area in and near Vienna; marshalling yards at Maribor, Yugoslavia; Gyor, Hungary; Graz, Salzburg, Villach, and the town of Sankt Johann in Tirol, Austria; plus several scattered targets of opport...		07/13/2007	393