Date: February 21st 1944
From: Commanding Officer 643rd BS/409th BG
To: 409th BG Commander & AvA Command
Subject: Targets for the day After Action Report.
Sir,
It is my duty to inform you that the 643rd BS launched a full compliment of low altitude bombers to the primary target Troop factory @ 9,5 and secondary target AAA factory @ 9,6. The flight could not locate the targets from the assigned bombing altitude.
We stayed in the target area for 25 minutes without sighting the primary and secondary targets.
I pushed my pilots down through the low cloud cover to see if the target could be spotted.
The result was one lost ship crashed on hillside.
On RTB an additional ship was lost as it crashed at the end of the runway of the alternate strip.
We request a photo recon mission to the area to ascertain the correct location on all targets prior to the next mission.
Respectfully,
Major
Redtail7Commanding 603rd BS/409th BG