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
(Southern France Campaign 15 August to 14 September 1944) While the Germans were retreating in Italy in the summer of 1944, the Allies diverted some of their strength in the theater to the invasion of Southern France. After preliminary bombardment, a combined seaborne-airborne force landed on the French Riviera on 15 August. Marseilles having been taken, Sevmth Army advanced up the Rhone Valley and by mid-September was in touch with Allied forces that had entered France from the north.
