Operation to Essen
Title
Operation to Essen
Description
Account of attack on the Pluto Benzol Plant at Gelsenkirchen. Alma Pluto Benzol Plant Gelsenkirchen is underlined. Captioned '23.2.45'.
Date
1945-03
Temporal Coverage
Language
Type
Format
One Newspaper-cutting
Publisher
Rights
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Contributor
Identifier
NParryHP-161011-010002
Transcription
Other fighter – escorted R.A.F. bombers attacked Essen and the [underlined] Alma Pluto Benzol Plant [/underlined] at [underlined] Gelsenkirchen [/underlined] yesterday afternoon.
Reports coming through on Thursday’s grand-scale attack reveal the destruction or damage of about 200 railway engines and 300 trucks by fighters and fighter-bombers alone.
[inserted] 23-2-45 [/inserted]
Reports coming through on Thursday’s grand-scale attack reveal the destruction or damage of about 200 railway engines and 300 trucks by fighters and fighter-bombers alone.
[inserted] 23-2-45 [/inserted]
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Citation
“Operation to Essen,” IBCC Digital Archive, accessed May 1, 2024, https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/collections/document/10269.
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