The primary target was bombed by 18 B-26's. They dropped 63 x 1000 lb demolition bombs and 6 x 1000 lb demolition bombs with 6 hour delay fuses from 10600 to 9600 ft at 12:31 hours.
At 11:33 hours, 15 B-26's dropped 111 x 500 lb demolition bombs and 5 x 500 lb demolition bombs with 6 hour dely fuses over the primary target from an alltitude of 10600 to 9600 ft.
In two target runs, 18 B-26's dropped 138 x 500 lb demolition bombs and 6 x 500 lb demolition bombs with 6 hour delay fuses between 10:45 and 11:15 hours from 10600 to 9500 ft at the primary target.
17 B-26's dropped 131 x 500 lb demolition bombs and 6 x 500 lb demolition bombs with 5 hour delay fuses on the primary target at 12:01 hours from 10600 to 9600 ft.
17 B-26's dropped 130 x 500 lb demolition bombs and 6 x 500 lb demolition bombs with 6 hours fuse delay on the primary target at 11:29 hours from 10600 to 9600 ft.
15 B-26's dropped 115 x 500 lb demolition bombs and 5 x 500 lb demolition bombs with 6 hours delay fuses in two target runs between 10:57 and 11:18 hours.
34 B-26's dropped 119 x 1.000 lb demolition bombs and 12 x 1.000 lb demolition bombs with 6 hour delay fuses on the alternate target at 12:21 hours.
The primary target, Avisio Railroad Viaduct, was obscured by a effective smoke screen.
27 B-26's from the 42nd Bomb Wing were over the target and 9 B-26's dropped 72 x 500 lb. demolition bombs in the first bomb run at 11:51 hours from 10.500 ft and 18 B-26's dropped 144 x 500 lb. demolition bombs at 12:01 hours from 11.600 to 10.800 ft. on the second bomb run.
6 B-26's dropped 42 x 500 lb. demolition bombs and 6 x 500 lb. with fuse delay at 13:31 hours from 10.500 ft, instead of the primary target Ebingen railway station
6 B-26's dropped 35 x 500 lb. demolition bombs and 6 x 500 lb. with fuse delay at 13:32 hours from 10.300 ft, instead of the primary target Strassberg railway station.
This field was built during the WW2 era as the largest of 16 satellite landing fields which supported primary flight training at Grosse Isle Naval Air Station.
The date of construction of Newport NOLF has not been determined, but the earliest depiction of the field which has been located was a 1942 map, which labeled it as "Newport F...
Aerial view of Dodge City AAF while under construction in 1943.
Dodge City AAF was located 6 miles northwest of the town of Dodge City. The Army Airfield was built in 1942 for the 70,000 Pilot Training Program, to train pilots & crews of medium bombers, primarily B-25s.
Dodge City was also used during WW2 to train French aircrews.
Commissioned September 15, 1942 and named for the sawmill community, which it replaced, NAS Richmond became the world’s largest blimp base. Located on 2,107 acres nineteen miles southwest of Miami’s central business district, the need for this facility came from the Nazi U-boat threat to Allied merchant marine. To provide anti-submarine patrol, rescue, escort and utility services in this area, ...
Buckingham was a flexible gunnery training base, used to train the gunners who would defend bombers.
It was constructed starting in 1942 at a cost of $10 million on a total of 7,000 acres of swamp land, which had to be drained with an extensive system of newly constructed canals.
Training was conducted in both air-to-air & air-to-surface gunnery.
Located approximately 250 miles southwest of Anchorage, Kodiak Island was one of the major centers of Alaskan military activity during World War Two. Facilities on the island included several airfields, a Naval operating base and several other installations.
To protect this important harbor the Coast Artillery Installed a total of 8 major gun batteries, ranging in caliber from 8...
Fort Segarra is an underground fort, part of the United States' defense strategies during World War II. Its purpose was to help protect a submarine base on St. Thomas. The war ended before its completion and the project was subsequently abandoned. Visitors to Water Island can view gun emplacements, walk inside tunnels and visit underground rooms. The observation deck on the roof of the fort off...
Located on Unalaska Island approximately 780 miles southwest of Anchorage, Dutch Harbor was the site of an important Naval operating base during the Aleutian Campaign of World War Two. To protect this strategic harbor from enemy attack, the Coast Artillery Corps would construct a total of seven gun batteries in the harbor, along with numerous fire control stations, searchlight positions and oth...
TACTICAL OPERATIONS (Ninth Air Force): In Germany, the 9th Bombardment Division hits 5 bridges, 2 communications centers, 3 ordnance and motor transport depots, several city areas, and 6 targets of opportunity; the objectives are to hinder movement of enemy troops trying to help the German
army caught in front of the US Third Army, to obstruct movement in general, and ...
TACTICAL OPERATIONS (Twelfth Air Force): In Italy, B-25's attack roads at Velletri, the railway at Colleferro and marshalling yard at Orte; B-26's bomb bridges at Ceprano and marshalling yard at Terni; A-20's give close support to the US Fifth Army attack near Terelle; A-36's bomb railways and buildings at Poggio Mirteto, Ceccano, and Ciampino, hit rail and road tr...
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