Chapter 48-3

3 Le Touquet                                                                                                                                                                                   next mission

4Jun44

US mission 390

 

 

"This was a raid of the type I would rather pull more often. Cover Girl in for repairs so we used another B24, AC#1200. We hit the small French coast town with 12 five hundred pounders. One target was a large hotel that supposedly had been used as a headquarters for German officers.

Our course took the outfit south to Beachhead and over the channel. The IP was a coordinate in the channel and we saw no flak whatsoever. Went as smooth as glass, and we returned to base.", Foster writes.

 

Le Touquet is a eautiful resort area (video).

 

The unexploded 500 pound general purpose bomb above was recently found in Belgium from a May 44 heavy bombing campaign. Like the ones we saw aboard the Witchcraft.

related web links

 

Thirty Missions Text

 

Thirty Mission Static Map

 

30 Missions Interactive Geographic Map

 

all WW2 missions 

 

489th Bomb Group

 

93rd BG

 

Target for Today Excellent 1944 AA Corps Govt movie puts you right back there to cover a whole mission. Real military personnel although campy stilted dialog. 1 1/2 hr  if glitch/reload