We flew our 9th mission today. We were to bomb a railroad bridge at “Nienburg”. We got up at 2:00 a.m. and took off at 6:00 a.m. We led the Wing. It was a visual target. The Colonel (Shower) was command pilot. We made five runs on the target. We circled the bridge for one hour and thirty minutes. The lead squadron bombed the bridge. The 2nd, 3rd, and 4th squadron bombed H2 at Bielfeld. We flew ship No. 282. We carried 5x1000 lb bombs, 2500 gallons of gas. We bombed at 17,000 feet. We flew for eight hours.