Art Kramer

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Two Bad Days Over the Deadly RR Bridges

Railroad bridges were brutally defended. Knock out a RR bridge and you have cut transport for possibly hundreds of miles . And while repairing track took only a few hours. rebulding a RR bridge over a river or chasm might take weeks. We had some of our heaviest losses over these bridges. On the 13th of February 1945 we attacked the RR Bridge at Euskirchen. We lost two aircraft over the target. We lost Yeager and his crew and Williams (one chute seen to open) and his crew. The very next day we hit the Engers RR bridge and we lost 5 aircraft over the target. Brennen,Holms, Jones, Nelson and Meppen and crews were lost but three chutes were seen you open. Two bridges,two days, seven crews lost. A lot of empty bunks at the 344th. And the war was almost over. What a time to die.

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