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3 unusual facts about 94th Operations Group


94th Operations Group

The 94th flew its first mission on 13 June 1943, bombing an airfield at Saint-Omer.

Struck troops and gun batteries to aid the advance of the Allies at Saint-Lô in July and at Brest in August.

After that, the group attacked such strategic objectives as the port of St Nazaire, shipyards at Kiel, an aircraft component parts factory at Kassel, a synthetic rubber plant at Hanover, a chemical factory at Ludwigshafen, marshalling yards at Frankfurt, oil facilities at Merseburg, and ball-bearing works at Eberhausen.



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