Diary Type: Combat - 24 Jul 44

Hatten, Paul Van Buren
We had a ten man crew with a new radio operator (Marvin Raymon Berman) who flew his first mission We carried 240-20# fragmentation bombs to the German lines at Montreuil, west of St. Lo. but had to bring them back because of bad weather There was moderate flak at the target and we encountered no fighter opposition We had fighter area cover and our plane was not hit Monday July 24, 1944 from 09:19 till 14:32 at 15,000 ft