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
The effectiveness of interdiction in northern Italy was shown by the success of the final Allied drive in that area in April 1945. With communications shattered, the Germans were unable to move enough materiel to make a stand after being driven from their defensive positions south of the Po. Allied forces crossed the river on 25 April; and on 4 May, at the Italian end of the Brenner Pass, Fifth Army met the Seventh, which had driven into Germany and turned southward into Austria. With the joining of these forces the war in Italy was over.