The mission to Celle Germany April eight was to completely destroy or render inoperative the marshaling yards there. Light and accurate flak was experienced. The bombs walked across the yards and hit a storage tank assumed to be aviation (fuel) as the explosion went up about two thousand feet. Flames were seen rising up to 100 to 200 feet.

April 8, 194S, MI88ION # 14
AlL 9,000 2-2,000 pound bomb~.
At the ba~e in Florenne~, Belgium

Today I made my 14th mi~ion over the rail yards at (2elle. We got up at 5 o'clock and had briefing at ~ix and were out to the plane~ at 6:30. We were briefed for po~ible fighter reaction. The Huna had 2,500 available in the area. We were delayed becau~e the bomb line (had] moved up. We finally took off about 9 o'clock. We gained altitude and were at our fighter e~corL We cro~ed the bomb line and headed for our target We caught moderate inaccurate flak between our D.Il. [?] point and the ~rget We made a flak free run on the target and rail yard. We bombed on the fir~ run and made a

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