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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.
Lieutenant Colonel Robert Rosenthal (June 11, 1917 – April 20, 2007) was an American lawyer and Army officer. A highly decorated B-17 commander of the Eighth Air Force of the United States Army Air Forces in World War II, Rosenthal was a recipient of the Distinguished Service Cross and two Silver Stars.
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
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 ...
The city was hit in one of the 1st “City Busting” Missions of the U.S. 8th Air Force on October 10, 1943. Much of the city center and the railway yard was heavily damaged in the raid but heavy casualties were inflicted against the American heavy bombers with the 100th Bomb Group losing 13 of the 14 B-17s that took part in the raid.
In June 1943, Lehrgeschwader 1, a Ju 88A trining unit used the field through most of the year. [1] With the increasing Allied bomber attacks on Germany in 1943, Münster-Handorf was assigned to be part of the Defense of the Reich campaign by the Luftwaffe. Nachtjagdgeschwader 7 (NJG 7), a Ju 88G night fighter unit was formed at the base in ...
On 10 October 1943, the bomb raid that the 100th BG made on Münster, ended up with the only surviving 100th BG B-17 that went out on the raid, the Royal Flush (s/n 42-6087) commanded that day by Robert Rosenthal and flown by his regular crew, returning safely on just two working engines and both waist gunners seriously wounded, to Thorpe Abbotts.