Date: 2 june 1944

MISSION #29

BASE: Castelluccio dei Sauri

TARGET: Szolnok, Hungary--Marshalling Yard

SHIP: Jesse James …808

ESCORT: Forty P-38’s, Twenty P-51’s

BOMBS: 10 x 500 lb. General Purpose from 22,000 feet

ENEMY AIRCRAFT: none

FLAK: Slight Volume, Inaccurate Aim (4 guns)

RESULT: Six strings crossed main marshalling yard cutting both choke points and several central points. A large percentage of rolling stock with freight probably destroyed or seriously damaged. Overhead highway bridge probably destroyed by direct hits.

SORTIES: 2 Total: 41

MISSION TIME: 7:00 Total: 193:45

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NARRATIVE: We bombed rail yards, and I mean bombed. Got us up at 1:45 am. No sleep. But we got back at noon. All went well today. No fighters. Watched three or four locomotives attempting to beat bombs out of marshalling yard. They sure picked up steam fast, but only one of them managed to keep ahead of the bombs all the way out and made it safely.