474th FG, mission 27th of June 1944

[Henofred]

Hello Gary,

I have few things, below excerpts which I have regarding the mission of June 27 :

For the 428th FS :
The 61st mission on June 27 was a Group operation, the bombing of a stalled troop train south of Bourges, in the area south of Paris. The newly established “cover” work fell to the 428th and so its 12 pilots took off at 1934, the other two bomb-carrying Squadrons following immediately. Maj. Hedlund led. The route lay over Caen, where the British invasion forces were still stalled. The 428th’s cover-giving pilots, Kept y their job to a relatively high altitude, saw nothing particularly interesting on the mission ; The two Squadrons “Target train” had somehow vanished, and so the bombing developed into a routine attack on a nearby marshalling yard. No enemy aircraft were encountered.

And for the 429th FS :
Tonight, we were told there was a German troop train located on the tracks between Bourges and Vierzon Ville. Pilots were briefed and took off at 1936. By 2100 the pilots had combed the area but were unable to locate the designated troop train. Capt. Halford spotted a three-way rail junction 4 miles west of Bourges and the Squadron went down and gave it a good working over. Lt. Levey along with 5 others scored direct hits on the tracks. At 2240, all planes returned.

I am looking for all informations regarding this operation : squadrons involved, number of planes in mission, armament, pilots, flight plan, photographs and so on... in a word all that you find in a mission report. What would be great, it is some photographs and mission's account from the involved pilots. I have bought some microfilms at Maxwell regarding the bombardments onto Bourges A/D, 4 miles East from the 27th of June target, amazing documents and photographs are found into these microfilms.
If you can help me to have this kind of informations…

Best regards,
Frederic

[Eagle0025]

Frederic,

Send me your email address in a private message and I can send you some more info on this mission. I tried sending some more data to you on this forum but it would not accept is for some reason.

Cheers, Gary

[Henofred]

OK Gary,

I send you my email address into your “private message” of the forum.

Best regards,
Frederic.