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Schweinfurt-Regensburg 1943 - Eighth Air Force's costly early daylight battles (Paperback)
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Schweinfurt-Regensburg 1943 - Eighth Air Force's costly early daylight battles (Paperback)
Series: Air Campaign
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Discovery Miles 3 780
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In 1943, the USAAF and RAF launched the Combined Bomber Offensive,
designed to systematically destroy the industries that the German
war machine relied on. At the top of the hit list were aircraft
factories and plants making ball-bearings - a component thought to
be a critical vulnerability. Schweinfurt in southern Germany was
home to much of the ball-bearing industry and, together with the
Messerschmitt factory in Regensburg, which built Bf 109 fighters,
it was targeted in a huge and innovative strike. Precision required
that the targets were hit in daylight, but the raid was beyond the
range of any existing escort fighter, so the B-17s would go in
unprotected. The solution was to hit the two targets in a
coordinated 'double-strike', with the Regensburg strike hitting
first, drawing off the defending Luftwaffe fighters, and leaving
the way clear for the Schweinfurt bombers. The Regensburg force
would carry on over the Alps to North Africa, the first example of
US 'shuttle bombing'. Although the attack on Regensburg was
successful, the damage to Schweinfurt only temporarily stalled
production, and the Eighth Air Force had suffered heavy losses. It
would take a sustained campaign, not just a single raid, to cripple
the Schweinfurt works. However, when a follow-up raid was finally
launched two months later, the losses sustained were even greater.
This title explains how the USAAF launched its daylight bombing
campaign in 1943, the technology and tactics available for the
Schweinfurt-Regensburg missions, and how these costly failures
forced a change of tack.
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