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.