Kevin J. Bowers

World War II Air Corps Missions

1944-1945

My Missions - Italy

• Introduction
• Missions
  • Mission 1
  • Missions 2-3
  • Mission 4
  • Mission 5
  • Mission 6
  • Mission 7
  • Missions 8-9
  • Missions 10-11
  • Mission 12
• Sorties
  • Sorties 10-20
    • Sortie 10
    • Sortie 11
    • Sortie 12
    • Sortie 13
    • Sortie 14
    • Sortie 15
    • Sortie 16
    • Sortie 17
    • Sortie 18
    • Sortie 19
    • Sortie 19A
  • Sorties 20-30
    • Sortie 20
    • Sortie 22
    • Sortie 23
    • Sortie 24
    • Sortie 25
    • Sortie 26
    • Sortie 27
    • Sortie 28
    • Sortie 29
    • Sortie 30
• Images/Pictures
  • Original Diary
    • Item 3.1.1
    • Item 3.1.2
  • Item 3.2
  • Item 3.3
• Biography

 

 

OCTOBER, 1944 - MISSION 1

I took the right waist position on Lt. Parvin's crew. The weather was fairly bad for bombing. We flew up the Adriatic to bomb northern Italy. Just as we crossed the coast heading out over the sea we sighted a submarine which crash dived at the sight of us. I don't know whether it was an allied or German sub.

Flying over enemy occupied Italy was a new experience. The weather was quite bad with the result that we caught only occasional glimpses of the ground. Our target was a bridge. It was completely obscured by the clouds below us. We went right over it but did not drop our bombs because of the visibility.

I saw flack bursting below and among a group of B-17's off our right wing.

 

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