4th June 2009, 23:56
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Alter Hase
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Join Date: Mar 2005
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Re: Rudolf Hiltner, 5.ZG1
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Who were the enemies on 23. Feb.?
Karl
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II./ZG 1 based at Wels on 23 February 1944. Kommandeur: Hptm. Egon Albrecht.
February 23, 1944 AUSTRIA: Eighty-one Fifteenth Air Force B-24s attack an aircraft assembly plant at Steyr, and 21 B-24s demolish much of the Steyr factory responsible for 10 percent of Germany's anti-friction ball-bearing production. Although the bombing results are excellent, the bomber force is attacked over the Alps during the withdrawal by an estimated 120 GAF fighters, and it sustains the Fifteenth Air Force's worst one-day loss ratio to date: 17 B-24s downed against just one Me-210 downed and two Bf-110s damaged by 14th Fighter Group P-38 escort pilots. |