Subject: THE DEADLY RAILROAD BRIDGES
From: Dana Miller
Date: 2/4/04 7:51 PM

How much did the Air Corps briefers tell you about the purpose behind
the selection of a particular target? Did most aircrew members have a
good understanding of target selection so that most/all targets were
chosen for obvious reasons? Did all the aircrew go to the pre-flight
breif or just pilots/BNs? Different briefs for different crew positions?

Ed, et al,


They told us only what we had to know,sometimes almost nothing, Some things we
only learned after the mission such as the time we hit the bridge at Arnhem.
They were careful not to give us information of use to the enemy in case we
were shot down and captured. In most cases what we knew, so did the enemy.

Pre flight breifings included only pilots, copilots and bombardier navigators.


Arthur Kramer
344th BG 494th BS
England, France, Belgium, Holland, Germany
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