Lt. Robert J. Beckley's Diary - 25 September 1944

398th Bomb Group
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**Lt. Robert J. Beckley's Diary**
Navigator, 600th/601st Squadron

Beckley's Mission No. 18

**25 September 1944**
**Target:** **Marshalling Yards, Frankfurt, Germany**
No. 18. Frankfurt, September 25, 1944: 7 hours flying time. Bomb load 12, five-hundred pound GP bombs. The marshalling yards of the west side of the town was our target. The flak was meager, but flak wasn’t our big scare this time. The high squadron slid over us at the target and their train of bombs came so close to our right wing that I could see them fall between my line of sight and our wing tip.

Notes:

Lt. Robert J. Beckley was the Navigator for the Linn R. Rogers crew.
The above transcription was provided by Ann Collins, daughter of Phillip Collins, Ball Turret Gunner on the 601st Saul Marias Crew.
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