BILIN RIVER BRIDGES

�����On 13 NOVEMBER 1944, 12 aircraft from the 436th Bombardment Squadron attacked two railroad bridges on the Bilin River at Hninpale, Thailand. The aircraft split into two groups of 2 flights of 3 aircraft each. One group, consisting of aircraft piloted by Lts Reuth�, Phillips, Gordon, Eide�, Bair and Larson, with the C.O of the 7th Bomb Group, Col. Harvey T. Alness riding as co-pilot with Lt. Reuth's crew, attacked the main steel bridge with the results shown here. The second group of Lts Duderstat�, Rigdon, Radtke, Ohlwiler�, Linberg and Kirknoff briefed to attack the wooden bypass bridge shown in the foreground, being built approximately 2,000 feet to the north of the main steel bridge, missed their target due to a misdentification of the target resulting from insufficient intelligence data, instad bombing an already destroyed wooden road bridge approximately 1� miles to the north. (Information taken from the 436th Squadron Journal for November, 1944)

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