Lt. Robert J. Beckley's Diary

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

Beckley's Mission No. 31

**29 November 1944**
**Target:** **Marshalling Yards, Misburg, Germany**
No. 31. Misburg, November 29, 1944: 7 hours 20 minutes flying time. Bomb load 12 five-hundred pound GP bombs. Cloud coverage obscured our primary target at Dollbergen [Doliberg] so we hit the PFF target, the marshalling yards at Misberg. The flak was not as rough as it was a few days before when we hit the same main IP. We were briefed to expect heavy fighter opposition, but the Luftwaffe never came up. Coming back, I never saw the sky so filled with our heavies. There were about 500 of our bombers within sight as we crossed the Dutch coast.

Notes:

Lt. Robert J. Beckley was the Navigator for the Linn R. Rogers crew.
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