The very last bombing mission was flown by thirty-eight aircraft with the target the marshalling yards at Falkenburg, Germany. Radio operator Roscoe Bradley on pilot Carroll Hills 367th Bomb Squadron crew became the last man wounded when a piece of flak hit him in the wrist. Flak was described as “meager” for the mission and Hill’s plane, although damaged severely, was the only one hit.

The sentence in the report that would bring pangs to those who were first in combat was the last in the descriptive paragraph of the 367th Squadron history: “No E/A (enemy aircraft) were seen and P-51s gave close support throughout the mission.”

The 306th Bombardment Group had come a long way in thirty months of rigorous combat. And suddenly the war came to a close. But the planes continued to fly as leaflet missions were loosed all over Germany, taking the word in German, English, and assorted other languages to great cities, prison camps, and villages, telling of the end of the fighting and giving directions for the future.

The above is from Russelll Strong’s book “First Over Germany”