An early mission had been scheduled and combat crew members had early chow, but at 10:00 A.M. the raid was postponed until afternoon. Takeoff was at 14:25 when ten B-25/s of the 487th left the runway to attack Perugia A/D. The formation was over the target at 17:17 hours dropping their entire bombload of 80x500's in a pattern which started short of the Airdrome extending to the edge of the airfield. It is believed that only two or three bombs may have hit in the eastern dispersal area of the drome. All ships were holed by an intense, accurate concentration of anti-aircraft fire. 7K was hit over the target and only two 'chutes were observed coming out of the ship before it exploded upon contact with the ground. 2nd Lts. B.B. Barker, R.B. Hicks, S/Sgt. A.H. Vervacke and Sgts. S. Tulin, J.T. Raschetz and D.H. Pinkerton were crew members of the ill-fated bomber. 7T was also crippled by ack-ack over the target and was last seen aflame as it spiraled earthward. Four 'chutes left the plane which most probably added four more men to the P of W list. 2nd Lts. G.U. Ashmore, H.E. Finney, G.J. Simpson; Sgts. J.W. Ikner, J.S. Klein and Cpl. B.A. Burton were crew members aboard 7T. Sgt. Joe Ferraro received an ankle injury from the bursting flack and is recovering in the hospital. Sgt. Gerhardt sustained a piece of flak in his thigh which had no serious effects...Cpl. Wright and Pvt. A.D. Rice are beautifying the squadron area during their tour of extra duty for an unauthorized fling in Naples. One can view them at almost anytime of the day with rake or shovel in hand – extra duty is one way of limiting details...Major Parsons reports his candy ration stolen. He also admits being "P.O." at the whole incident......A detail of four officers left for Naples tonight in order to be first in line for their ten tickets to see "This is the Army." If they secure them, forty enlisted men of the organization will witness the show tomorrow...340th Group provided no movie tonight due to some unsolved controversy over the film distribution...