Operational Record
- Committed
- 12 Glenn Martin Baltimore
- Airborne
- 0706 hrs
- Returned
- 0916 hrs
- From
- Biferno
- Map
- ITALY 1:100,000 Sheet 146 SULMONA
- Day / night
- Day
12 Baltimores airborne at 0906 Hrs to attack a FACTORY at G875992 (2 mls NORTH of POPOLI) with a mixed load of delay and instantaneous bombs. After R/v with 223 Sqdn over base, formation set course at 0948 Hrs without fighter escort. Target found to be obscured by 9/10 cloud 8/15000' with small gaps. After doing two circuits over SULMONA Valley formation bombed through gap at 1033 Hrs from 15000' on a course of 210º. Good concentrated stick from G871999 to G865996 with several direct hits in cluster of buildings at C868996 – one explosion with large column of brown smoke, smaller column of black smoke. NO enemy opposition. All a/c landed by 1116 Hrs.