12^th AIR FORCE

57^th BOMB WING

340^th BOMB GROUP (M)

MISSIONS AUGUST 14, 1944

Simultaneous Missions Frejus and St Topez Gun Positions

487^th and 488^th Squadrons of the 340^th Bomb Group on August 14, 1944

St Tropez, France today

Simultaneous Missions Frejus and St Topez Gun Positions

487^th and 488^th Squadrons of the 340^th Bomb Group on August 14, 1944

Frejus, France today

486^th BS Mission sheet credit: Herman Voss

(487^th BS Crew sheet from Harry George)

Aug 14, 1944 Below credit: Dan Setzer and 57^th Bomb Wing website

487^th

Tonight was one of the most eventful the Squadron has ever had. Immediately after supper is was announced that the invasion of Southern France would begin at 08:00 A.M. in the morning. 487th is to be the first formation over the invasion beaches and from 2:00 A.M. on crews will be getting up, briefed and taking off. Roger Lynch, Operations C.O. was really sweating it out as he will be responsible for getting the men up at the proper time. Combat crews were given the dope at a Group meeting tonight. Everyone is tense in anticipation of the coming event.

489^th

This evening we were given some advance information of a momentous nature. Tomorrow morning at 0800 hours Southern France will be invaded. The Twelfth and the Fifteenth Air Forces will be out in full strength. This Group alone is sending up at least seventy-two planes. The day which all of us have been anticipating is about to come at long last. If everything goes well, perhaps we shall move to France within the next month. All of us will be glad to move, although this is an ideal location. We have been here longer than we have been at any other place. Accustomed to being on the move about once a month, we have become restless now that we have been in this one spot almost four months.