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The mission was enshrined in fiction as the "Hambrucken raid" in Beirne Lay and Sy Bartlett's novel, Twelve O'Clock High. It provides a reasonably accurate view of the thinking behind the planners' intention and the decisions that led to the abandonment of the goal of launching a double strike in such a way that the second strike would meet no ...
Nearly 700 civilians were killed in Munster, while thirty American bombers were shot down, and 105 badly damaged, with a loss of 308 American airmen and officers missing. [33] [34] Of the thirteen B-17s sent out on the raid by the 100th Bomb Group, only one, piloted by Robert Rosenthal, made it back to the unit's base at Thorpe Abbots.
The Second Raid on Schweinfurt on 14 October 1943, remembered as "Black Thursday" while October 1943 as a whole as a "black month" [12]), proved even more bloody; of the 291 aircraft on the mission, 60 were lost, with a further 17 damaged beyond repair. The self-defense concept appeared flawed enough, and losses among the bombers deemed ...
On the October 10, 1943, mission over Münster, Germany, only the third mission for Rosenthal's crew with the 100th Bombardment Group, the B-17F s/n 42-6087, nicknamed Royal Flush, [3] that the crew were flying was the only plane out of 13 from the group that reached Münster to return to base.
Title Director Cast Genre Notes Above Suspicion: Richard Thorpe: Joan Crawford, Fred MacMurray, Conrad Veidt: Spy: MGM: Action in the North Atlantic: Lloyd Bacon, Raoul Walsh: Humphrey Bogart, Raymond Massey, Alan Hale Sr.
The raid sustained the heaviest losses until that point in the air war. [31] 23 June 1943 RAF reconnaissance photo of Peenemünde Test Stand VII. 3 May Ramrod 16 bombing of steelworks at IJmuiden. 5 May: Republic P-47 Thunderbolts are first used for escorting bombers. 17 May: Operation Chastise bouncing bombs breached the Möhne and Eder Dams
Britain's Royal Air Force bombed Düsseldorf and Münster in its heaviest attack up to that time, while the U.S. 8th Air Force made a daylight raid on Wilhelmshaven and Cuxhaven. [33] The U.S. raid involved 225 airplanes, and an unprecedented 85 of them were shot down or crashed. [34] The 462 tons of bombs dropped was a new high for U.S. bombing.
Air Force is a 1943 American World War II aviation film directed by Howard Hawks and starring John Garfield, John Ridgely, Gig Young, Arthur Kennedy, and Harry Carey. The film was distributed by Warner Bros. and produced by Hal B. Wallis and Jack L. Warner. It contains incidents of supposed fifth-column activities by Japanese Americans that ...