Operations: Combat in MTO and ETO (19 May 1944 to 26 Apr 1945)
Service Streamers: American Theater
Emblem: None.
References: Books
460th Bomb Group History by Duane :/ amd Bettu Bohnstedt (Published 1996)
Combat Squadrons of the Air Force in World War II, Edited by: Maurer Maurer
Air Force Combat Units 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
Content
The first target for the 763rd was the marshalling yards at Metkovic, Yougoslavia. Thirty three aircraft from the group took off and dropped 61 tons of 500 lbs. bombs.
