Operations: Combat in MTO and ETO, 19 May 1944 - 26 Apr 1945
Service Streamers: American Theater
Emblem: None
References: (Books)
460th Bomb Group History by Duane L. and Betty J. Bohnstedt
Combat Squadrons of the Air Force in World War II, Edited by Maurer Maurer
Air Force Combat Groups in World War II, Edited by Maurer Maurer
B-24 Liberator Units of the Fifteenth Air Force by Robert F. Dorr
Fifteenth Air Force Story by Kenn C. Rust
Description
Normandy Campaign 6 June to 24 July 1944) Early on D-Day airborne troops landed in France to gain control of strategic areas. Aerial and naval bombardment followed. Then the invasion fleet, covered by an umbrella of aircraft, discharged Eisenhower’s assault forces. Soon the beachhead was secure, but its expansion was a slow and difficult process in the face of strong opposition. It was not until late in July that the Allies were able to break out of Normandy.
