Operation to Gelsenkirchen

Operation to Gelsenkirchen

Account of Lancasters bombing benzol plant near Gelsenkirchen. Spitfire's dropped bombs on railway trucks. Benzol plant and Gelsenkirchen is underlined. captioned '5.3.45'.

1945-05

One newspaper cutting

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RAF Lancasters hit a [underlined] benzol plant [/underlined] near [underlined] Gelsenkirchen, [/underlined] while RAF Spitfires dropped bombs in the middle of a concentration of 60 railway trucks in the V-bomb zone.
[inserted] 5.3.45 [/inserted]