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 | 28/29 April 1942
88 aircraft - 62 Wellingtons, 15 Stirlings, 10 Hampdens, 1 Halifax. 5 Wellingtons and 1 Hampden lost.
54 aircraft claimed good bombing results in bright moonlight but against strong Flak and fighter defences. Post-raid photographs reported 'no new damage' but the Kiel records show that damage was caused at all 3 shipyards, to the hospital of the Naval Academy and ... |  | 10/20/2005 | 451 | 
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 | Attacked by the No. 99 Squadron RAF. |  | 03/03/2007 | 211 |
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 | WWII City of Bergkamen after heavy bombing raid USAF. Picture made in February 1945. Berkamen (Northrhine-Westfalia) was one of the most destroyed small towns in Germany. Aim of the bombing raids were the coal mines and the Chemische Werke - today Schering AG | | 10/05/2005 | 787 |
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 | Wangerooge: 482 aircraft - 308 Halifaxes, 158 Lancasters, 16 Mosquitos - of Nos 4, 6 and 8 Groups. 5 Halifaxes and 2 Lancasters lost. The raid was intended to knock out the coastal batteries on this Frisian island which controlled the approaches to the ports of Bremen and Wilhelmshaven. No doubt the experience of Antwerp, when guns on the approaches had prevented the port being used for several... | | 07/25/2007 | 1,071 |
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 | RAF Great Ashfield is a former World War II airfield in England. The field is located 10 miles east of Bury St. Edmunds in Suffolk.
Great Ashfield was built for the USAAF in 1942 and assigned designation Station 138. The first aircraft to land on the station is believed to have been a battle-damaged B-26 Marauder returning from a raid over Holland on 17 May 1943. | | 08/28/2007 | 893 |
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 | 72 aircraft - 29 Lancasters, 22 Halifaxes, 21 Stirlings - were dispatched on an interesting raid. All the aircraft were provided by No 8 Group and it was really a mass H2S trial. 33 of the aircraft carried markers or flares, the remaining aircraft acting as the bombing force, although the marker aircraft also bombed. The marking and bombing were very accurate and the whole raid lasted less than... |  | 10/29/2005 | 409 |
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 | 2/3 April 1942
40 Wellingtons and 10 Stirlings carried out successful bombing of the motor factory . 1 Wellington lost. | | 10/20/2005 | 275 |
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 | This air raid shelter (in German: Hochbunker) was built between 1942 and 1943. It offered protection during bombardments. The bunker is 25 meters high. The outer walls has a thickness of 1,10 meter. During the siege of Breslau (now: Wroclaw) in 1945, the air raid shelter served as Festunglazaret II.
Address:ul. Legnicka, Wroclaw | | 09/12/2009 | 589 |
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 | This is a picture of the RAF bombing raid on 25 April 1945 of the obersalzberg complex and hitlers berghof. |  | 03/26/2006 | 1,093 |
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 | 173 Lancasters of No 3 Group carried out a G-H raid on Solingen. 1 Lancaster lost. Results of the raid were not observed, because of the complete cloud cover, but German reports show that this was an outstanding success. Most of the bombing fell accurately into the medium-sized town of Solingen. 1,300 houses and 18 industrial buildings were destroyed and 1,600 more buildings were severely damaged. | | 10/30/2005 | 424 |
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 | Bataan Airfield was a former wartime United States Army Air Forces airfield on Luzon in the Philippines. It was overrun by the Imperial Japanese Army during the Battle of the Philippines (1942). The airfield was located near the village of Lucanin, south Lamao in Bataan Provience.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bataan_Airfield | | 07/21/2009 | 89 |
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 | Atlantic was built during WW2 as a satellite airfield for MCAS Cherry Point. The Navy acquired 1,470 acres of land in early 1942, and construction commenced later that year.
The 1st aircraft reportedly arrived at Atlantic in 1943 [but that is contradicted by the 1942 photos above], the Douglas SDB Dauntless dive bombers of VMSB-341, followed shortly by VMSB-342.
A... | | 09/19/2008 | 214 |
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