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Operation No. 743

ROADS

12 aircraft

Operational Record

Committed
12 Glenn Martin Baltimore
Airborne
0733 hrs
Returned
0925 hrs
From
Pescara
Map
ITALY - 1:100,000 Sheet 117 IESI
Day / night
Day
12 Baltimores (one returned shortly after take-off owing to engine trouble) airborne from PESCARA at 09.33 Hrs. to bomb a road and rail junction at S509494. Attack took place at 10.30 Hrs. from 12000' on a course of 245º. Leader's intercomm. plug was accidentally pulled out during bombing run preventing last corrections. A line error to the left resulted, pattern from both boxes from S513492 to S509489. Direct hit on buildings & on secondary road junction at S509489. HAA slight inaccurate from target area. Weather cloudless but visibility hazy. All A/c landed at base by 11.25 Hrs.