File:WWII Schweinfurt Raid.jpg
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English: 1943 United States Army Air Forces strategic bombing raid on the ball bearing works at Schweinfurt, Germany. Bombs from the first wave of B-17s falling on Schweinfurt on "Black Thursday." Bombs are hitting the Kugelfischer and VKF-Werk I factories and the railroad marshalling yards just west of the downtown area, but are also falling on residential areas north and west of downtown, and some bombs are falling very wide of the mark south of the Main River and downriver to the southwest. (U.S. National Archives, RG 342-FH-3A22431) |
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| Source | https://media.defense.gov/2014/Oct/14/2000994527/-1/-1/0/141014-F-XX999-003.JPG via https://www.fairchild.af.mil/News/Article-Display/Article/762942/the-second-schweinfurt-missionbomber-commands-darkest-day/ |
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- 2004-07-13 19:16 N328KF 210×400× (119704 bytes)
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