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The Schweinfurt task forces followed the same route as the Regensburg force. Because of the delayed start of the mission, eight squadrons of RAF Spitfire fighters (96 aircraft) from 11 Group and 83 Group had been added to escort the Schweinfurt force as far as Antwerp , where P-47s would take over and escort it to Eupen.
Schweinfurt has a central location in Germany and is located about 40 km from Baden-Württemberg, Hesse and Thuringia, in the middle of Main Franconia, Germanic-speaking Europe and the European Union. Schweinfurt lies on the river Main, which connects the North Sea with the Black Sea via the Rhine-Main-Danube Canal.
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This was the second attack on the factories at Schweinfurt. American wartime intelligence claimed the first Schweinfurt–Regensburg mission in August had reduced bearing production by 34 percent but had cost many bombers. A planned follow-up raid had to be postponed to rebuild American forces.
Schweinfurt is a Landkreis (district) in the northwestern part of Bavaria, Germany. Neighboring districts are (from the north clockwise) Bad Kissingen , Rhön-Grabfeld , Haßberge , Bamberg , Kitzingen , Würzburg and Main-Spessart .
The use of Ozark included the "construction of a little bit of fence and road" and "King figured that he could use the field for some B-17 aerial shots but more specifically for the opening and closing scenes of 12 O'Clock High, when Harvey Stovall visited his old English airbase, now overgrown and fallen into disuse. 'Ozark Field was the ideal ...
Schweinfurt is an electoral constituency (German: Wahlkreis) represented in the Bundestag. It elects one member via first-past-the-post voting . Under the current constituency numbering system, it is designated as constituency 249.
Regensburg is a Landkreis in Bavaria, Germany. It is bounded by (from the north, in clockwise direction) the districts of Schwandorf , Cham , Straubing-Bogen , Kelheim and Neumarkt . The city of Regensburg is enclosed by it, but is not part of the district; nonetheless it is its administrative seat.