Lt. Robert J. Beckley's Diary

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

Beckley's Mission No. 34

**28 December 1944**
**Target:** **Marshalling Yards, Koblenz, Germany**
No. 34. Koblenz, December 28, 1944: 7 hours flying time. Bomb load 6 one-thousand pound GP bombs. Our primary visual target was a railway suspension bridge, on the supply line to the German push south of Liege, but we weren’t able to hit it because of the solid cloud coverage. We dropped our bombs on the marshalling yards of Koblenz encountering only light and inaccurate flak at the target. This mission finished up Blackwell so I’ll have to find another pilot and crew for my next and last trip over Germany.

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