Dec 6, 2015 - Explore Dan Nowlin's board "Schweinfurt, Germany" on Pinterest. 84 was a strike by 376 bombers of 16 bomb groups against German heavy industry well beyond the range of escorting fighters. 84", was flown on the Mission No. The arrangement of two groups instead of three in the two following provisional wings meant a third fewer guns available to each for their mutual defense and made them more likely targets. Each wing found increasingly heavy smoke from preceding bomb explosions a hindrance to accuracy. Entries are listed below by date-of-occurrence ascending (first-to-last). Woods, "Combat Claims and Casualties", 17 August 43, "Ramrod 206 Part III" and "Ramrod 206 Part IV", p.111-112. ''swine ford'') is a town in the district of Lower Franconia in Bavaria, Germany.It is the administrative center of the surrounding district of Schweinfurt and a major industrial, cultural and educational hub. Everyone who flew the mission stressed the importance of the escorts in reducing losses; the planners grasped only that Schweinfurt would have to be bombed again, soon, in another deep-penetration, unescorted missionPointblank operations in April and July 1943 had concentrated solely on the production of the To successfully complete its portion of the attack, the Eighth Air Force decided to attack a target in central Germany as well as Regensburg to divide and confuse German air defenses.Two supporting attacks were also made a part of the overall mission plan. A document from 1282 signed by Schweinfurt joined the Protestant Union in 1609. The results of the bombing were exaggerated, and the high losses were well disguised in after-mission reports. With LeMay escaping over the Alps, the Schweinfurt force would be left to face the full fury of the Luftwaffe on its return to England. Weka Info-Verlag, Mering 2002, pp. The mission inflicted heavy damage on the Regensburg target, but at catastrophic loss to the force, with 60 bombers lost and many more damaged beyond economical repair. Printing and Publishing House Weppert. The mission takeoff was delayed until 08:00, when the fog had cleared sufficiently over East Anglia to allow the 4th Bombardment Wing to take off using instruments, a technique they had practiced. These types of raids would be temporarily suspended after a second raid on Schweinfurt sustained 20% casualties on October 14, 1943. The first, a The second was a series of attacks on Luftwaffe fighter fields at Eighth Air Force bomber operations were calculated with one to two hours of climb and assembly into formations factored into mission lengths. The 103 CG had 11 from the 303d and 6 from the 379 BG.Terdoslavich, William. The lead wing was attacked continuously in head-on attacks by both At 14:57 approximately 40 B-17s remained of the lead wing when it dropped its bombs on the target area containing five factories and 30,000 workers, followed over a 24-minute span by the remainder of the force. Schweinfurt, an industrial city of some 52,000 people located on the Main River in northern Bavaria, was a center for the manufacture of anti-friction bearings during World War II (and still is). The losses during the raid led Allied leaders to re-think the feasibility of unescorted, long-range, daylight raids on Germany. The excellent results at Regensburg were small consolation for the loss of 60 B-17s. The building behi… In addition the mission length for the Regensburg force was anticipated to be of eleven hours' duration, so that commanders had only a 90-minute "window" in which to launch the mission and still allow the 4th Bombardment Wing B-17s to reach North Africa in daylight.
When the This mission was enshrined in fiction as the "Hambrucken raid" in For the "Black Thursday" second bombing of Schweinfurt on 14 October, see "LeMay's force was expected to take the brunt of the German counteroffensive, allowing the Schweinfurt armada to proceed to the target with only light resistance. In Schweinfurt, the destruction was less severe but still extensive.
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