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Re: Allied Bombing over Berlin - 1st Mission
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Originally Posted by Laurent Rizzotti
8 August 1941: first Soviet raid
The Red Airforce targets Berlin for the first time in the war. Five Ilyushin Il-4 heavy bombers took off from bases in Estonia. Two bombers were shot down, two failed to find Berlin and one dropped its bombs just outside the city.
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Actually 12 DB-3 medium bombers took off from Kagul airfield (Oesel island) for Berlin raid in the evening of August 8, 1941 and at night of August 9 at 0:55-1:25 they all reached Berlin and dropped 72 100kg HE-bombs and 2500 leaflets there. Only one DB-3 failed to return from this mission.
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Andrey
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