Fifth Day
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Fifth Day
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Description of attack by bomber command Halifax aircraft on synthetic oil plants. Mentions German jet aircraft.
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One newspaper cutting
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Fifth day
Two other objectives were an auto-engine plant near Kiel, and an ordnance depot at Friedrichstadt, near Magdeburg.
In the afternoon R.A.F. Bomber Command [underlined] Halifaxes [/underlined] “in strength,” which probably means up to 500, with fighter cover, smashed at two synthetic plants in [underlined] the Ruhr [/underlined] – at [underlined] Scholven-Buer and Wanne-Eickel. [/underlined]
This was the fifth day of the great battle for Germany’s dwindling oil supplies
The Luftwaffe, probably influenced by Monday’s crippling fighter losses, reacted only half-heartedly to the U.S. attack. Nevertheless they lost about 45 planes in the air and 25 on the ground.
A few jet-propelled planes were used by the enemy.
The Wasserburg factory at Ulm, where the jet-propelled Messerschmitt 262 is made, and an aerodrome at Lechfeld, where many of these secret planes have been seen, were bombed yesterday by up to 500 U.S. heavies from Italy.
Two other objectives were an auto-engine plant near Kiel, and an ordnance depot at Friedrichstadt, near Magdeburg.
In the afternoon R.A.F. Bomber Command [underlined] Halifaxes [/underlined] “in strength,” which probably means up to 500, with fighter cover, smashed at two synthetic plants in [underlined] the Ruhr [/underlined] – at [underlined] Scholven-Buer and Wanne-Eickel. [/underlined]
This was the fifth day of the great battle for Germany’s dwindling oil supplies
The Luftwaffe, probably influenced by Monday’s crippling fighter losses, reacted only half-heartedly to the U.S. attack. Nevertheless they lost about 45 planes in the air and 25 on the ground.
A few jet-propelled planes were used by the enemy.
The Wasserburg factory at Ulm, where the jet-propelled Messerschmitt 262 is made, and an aerodrome at Lechfeld, where many of these secret planes have been seen, were bombed yesterday by up to 500 U.S. heavies from Italy.
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“Fifth Day,” IBCC Digital Archive, accessed April 24, 2024, https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/collections/document/34842.
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