Chapter 48-30

30 Offenburg                                                                                                                                                                          back to first mission

27Nov44

US mision 727

 

Long mission 7hrs 10min, down near Switzerland. Hit marshalling (RR) yards of Offenburg, Germany. Perfect run and picture of strike in put "Stars and Stripes", Army magazine. Carried five  500 pounders and incendiaries. Last mission.

 

Picture above from later never ending series of bomb runs.

 

Return to East Coast in December 1944 via the troop transport ships  Moreton Bay or Marine Robin with POWs.

 

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