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Amiens-Longeau Marshalling Yards, 16-17 March 1944 - Related Files

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	96th BG (H), Mission 300, Hagen - Hengstey Marshalling Yards 23 March 1945 The picture shows the first wave of bombs dropped by the allied B-17's. 519 B-17s are sent to hit marshalling yards Hengstey (113), Giesecke (91), Holzwickede (184) and the Unna yard at Dormund (38); secondary targets hit are Meschede (19) and marshalling yards at Siegen (93) and Marburg (10); targets of opportunity are Herdecke (10), Haliger (1) and...		05/09/2007	393
	461st BG (H), Mission 188, Graz Marshalling Yards 4 March 1945 Target: Graz Main Marshalling Yard, Austria The mission of 4 March against Graz Main Marshalling Yard, Austria, found Major Rider leading a large formation. The bombs fell across the target area with twenty-five strikes on cars in the yard and other rail installations. An overhead pass was hit, while still other bombs fell on the tracks between the m...		11/21/2009	123
	Aerial Photo of Opladen at 22 March 1945 27/28 December 1944 Opladen: 328 aircraft - 227 Halifaxes, 66 Lancasters, 35 Mosquitos. 2 Lancasters lost. 9 of the Mosquitos bombed 3½ hours before the main raid. The aiming point for the attack was the marshalling yards but results are not known. 6 March 1945 TACTICAL OPERATIONS (Ninth Air Force): In Germany, 260+ A-26s, and B-26s hit Recklinghausen, Siegburg, an...		08/06/2008	1,217
	461st BG (H), Mission 197, Wels Marshalling Yard 20 March 1945 Lt. Colonel Hardy led a six box formation in attacking the Wels Main Marshalling Yard, Austria, on 20 March. Again 100 pound general purpose bombs were used. Despite an eight-tenths cloud coverage at the target, the bombing was done visually. As had repeatedly been the case during the month when the Group was attacking marshalling yards of secondary - importance, t...		05/12/2007	395
	461st BG (H), Mission 198, Graz Marshalling Yard 21 March 1945 Target: Graz Marshalling Yard, Austria For Mission No. 198 on 21 March the marshalling yard at Graz turned out to be the alternate target selected for pathfinder bombing. The primary target had been the Bruck Marshalling Yard, Austria, but Major Poole, the formation leader, abandoned it because of poor visibility. One thousand pound general purpose ...		11/21/2009	20
	461st BG (H), Mission 201, Ceske Budejovice Marshalling Yard 24 March 1945 On 24 March the Group bombed again in Czechoslovakia on the first mission in a long time to this country. The target was the marshalling yard at Ceske Budejovice. Captain Thackston led the formation against this undefended target. The patterns around the two aiming points were scattered but both of them carried completely across the marshalling yard. The two roundh...		05/11/2007	324
	466th BG (H), Mission 137, Karlsruhe Marshalling Yard 5 November 1944 The 466th BG put up 35 a/c, and dropped 26,000 lbs. of bombs on the marshalling yards on this mission		06/03/2007	321
	461st BG (H), Mission 204, Graz Marshalling Yards 30 March 1945 Target: Graz Marshalling Yard, Austria Mission No. 204 on the 30th of the month was a four plane "lone wolf' mission with the Vienna North Marshalling Yard as the primary target. Finding that the weather over the Alps was much better than had been briefed, Lt. Miller, who had taken over the lead, decided to abandon the primary target and to hit ...		11/21/2009	7
	96th BG (H), Mission 300, Hagen - Hengstey Marshalling Yards (after) 23 March 1945 The photo was taken 1 hour after the bombardement by an allied airplane.		05/09/2007	417
	461st BG (H), Mission 37, Szolnok Marshalling Yard 2 June 1944 The month of June began auspiciously with an excellent mission against the Marshalling Yards at Szolnok, Hungary. Captain Dooley led the Group with Colonel Glantzberg leading the second section. Good weather, but little flak, no enemy fighters.		05/14/2007	366
	301st BG (H), Mission 341, Oradea Marshalling Yard 6 September 1944 STRATEGIC OPERATIONS (Fifteenth Air Force): 542 B-24s attack communications targets in Rumania, Yugoslavia and Hungary and troop and tank concentrations in S Yugoslavia; in Rumania, 2 marshalling yards are hit at Oradea, and 2 nearby bridges over the Sebes Koros River; targets in Yugoslavia are a marshalling yard at Novi Sad, a bridge at Belgrade, and tanks and ...		07/13/2007	594
	Bombing of the Hazebrouck Marshalling Yards - 25 June 1941 Vertical aerial photograph taken during a 'Circus' operation by Bristol Blenheim Mark IVs of Nos 21 and 110 Squadrons RAF, showing bombs bursting on goods trains, trucks, bridges and track at the western end of the marshalling yards at Hazebrouck, France.		08/17/2008	153