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On April 2, 1936, the aviation ministry paid 750,000 reichsmarks to the town of Wolgast [3]: 41 for the whole Northern peninsula of the Baltic island of Usedom. [4]: 17 By the middle of 1938, the Army facility had been separated from the Luftwaffe facility and was nearly complete, with personnel moved from Kummersdorf. [5]
Operation Hydra was an attack by RAF Bomber Command on a German scientific research centre at Peenemünde on the night of 17/18 August 1943. Group Captain John Searby, commanding officer of No. 83 Squadron RAF, commanded the operation, the first time that Bomber Command used a master bomber to direct the attack of the main force.
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The bombing of Peenemünde in World War II was carried out on several occasions as part of the overall Operation Crossbow to disrupt German secret weapon development. The first raid on Peenemünde, on the Baltic coast of Germany, was Operation Hydra of the night of 17/18 August 1943, involving 596 heavy bombers of the Royal Air Force. [1]
Peenemünde Airfield April 1943 reconnaissance image of Usedom island, with airfield at upper left. On 2 April 1936 the Reich Air Ministry paid 750,000 ℛ︁ℳ︁ to the town of Wolgast [2] for the whole northern peninsula of Usedom. [3]
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Peenemünde (German pronunciation: [peːnəˈmʏndə], English: "Peene [River] Mouth") is a municipality on the Baltic Sea island of Usedom in the Vorpommern-Greifswald district in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern in north-eastern Germany.
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