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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.
Rupert I (Ruprecht) of Regensburg (c. 975/980 – 1035/1036), 1002 Count and Burgrave of Regensburg ⚭ Liutana of Schweinfurt († 1070), possibly a daughter of Henry of Schweinfurt (c. 970 – 1017), Markgrave in the Nordgau, and Gerberga of Gleiberg (c. 970 – aft. 1036) Otto, 1036 Count in the Donaugau, 1040 Count in the Kelsgau
Berthold of Schweinfurt died 980 ⚭ Eilika of Walbeck: N.N. ⚭ N.N. Babo I of Regensburg died 1001/1002 ⚭ 1. Ida of Swabia ⚭ 3. Matilda of the Schweinachgau: Counts of Henneberg [Note 1] Counts of Schweinfurt: Leopold I (~950-994) ⚭ Richeza of Saulafeldgau (~950-994) Babonids: Counts of Henneberg: Counts of Scheyern: Margraves of ...
Robert Boyd Williams (November 9, 1901 – February 10, 1977) was a major general in the United States Army Air Forces and an eminent combat commander during World War II. . He personally led the B-17 raid on the Schweinfurt ball-bearing factories on 17 August 1943, the first large-scale deep penetration bombing raid on Germ
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.
Blitz Week was a period of United States Army Air Forces (USAAF) aerial bombardment during the 1943 Combined Bomber Offensive of World War II. [2] Air raids were conducted on six of seven days as part of Operation Gomorrah, against targets such as the chemical plant at Herøya, Norway, which produced nitrates for explosives; [1] and the AGO Flugzeugwerke AG plant [3]: IV-48, 51 (an Operation ...