Us Official Photographs

B-24s at Sedes Field

Like giant funeral pyres, hangars & planes send up columns of smoke. Forty-nine Consolidated B-24's unloaded 538 five-hundred-pound bombs on Sedes Field. At least 14 aircraft were destroyed on the ground & a fuel dump was set on fire. The bomb fall plot (right) shows a heavy concentration of bursts on the landing area & on the 3 hangars & all other buildings, most of which were set on fire. This 9th AF mission was the 1st attack by the USAAF on a target in Greece.