[werner]

8-13-43 (1.attack)
13:52 61 Liberator ( 83 started for the mission ) bombed Wiener
Neustadt in 3 waves ( = echelon ??)
Loss of production:
Werk 1: 30%
Werk 2: 15%
It was planned to build 280 Me109 in August 43, because of
the attack only 180 were delivered.

10-1-43 (2.attack)
12:45 90 bombers attacked the northern part of Wiener Neustadt and
Werk 1
Loss of production in Werk 1: 50%
79 killed persons

10-24-43 (3.attack)
12:00 very dense low stratus
Neunkirchen and Ebenfurth were hit
30 killed persons

11-2-43 (4.attack)
12:15 200 Bomber in several waves
city and industry hit very hard
production loss in Werk 1 and 2 : 100%
=> instead of partial transfer now the plan was a total transfer
102 killed persons

1-16-44 and 1-31-44
attacks against WNF Klagenfurt, after that transferred

WNF Werk1 and 2 repaired
March 44 400 Me109
April 44 443 Me 109

4-12-44 (5.attack)
northern part of Wiener Neustadt and WNF
82 killed
on the same day also WNF Fischamend was heavily bombed

4-23-44 ( 6.attack)
500 bomber with very heavy escort attacked Wiener Neustadt and
WNF in several waves
Very heavy damage
70 killed
on the same day also WNF Köttingbrunn-Vöslau ( near or on the a/f)
was attacked)

5-10-44 (7.attack)
400 bomber
heavy damage in the southern and northern part of the city, the same
with Werk 1 and 2
14 killed
on the same day also the evacuate works WNF Hirm and WNF Wulkaprodersdorf ( both stores ) were heavily bombed

5-24-44 (8.attack)
heavy attack on the city and Werk 1 and 2
9 killed civilians and 20 killed Flak soldiers

5-29-44 ( 9.attack)
very heavy attack on city, industry and airbase
81 killed
180 Me109 destroyed on ground
on the same day also attack against WNF Atzgersdorf and WNF Neudörfl ( after that both works were evacuated))
this was a tough day above Austria - 1400 bombers attacked targets all over the Ostmark

6-8-44 (10.attack)
periphal area

During attacks 1 to 10 588 persons got killed, 327 heavily wounded;
6000 were left homeless.
401 buildings were destroyed; 621 heavily damaged; 651 medium damaged and 2000 light damaged

7-8-44
heavy attack against airbase Markersdorf, the WNF work there was hevily damaged ( was a big transfered assembly work for assembly of Me109G )
8-23-44
this work was destroyed by a second big air attack

in the second half of 44 WNF tried to dislocate and also went underground. The displocation of the works was all over central Europe and so there were many problems with transportation of the parts and pieces.
In spite of all these problems WNF built 3564 Me109 in 1944
(~ 25% of all Reich production )
in the last quarter of 1944 WNF built 1110 Me109.

2-15-45 (11.attack)
2-21-45 (12.attack)
mainly railroad
47 killed

2-25-45 (13.attack)
no real damage

3-4-45 (14.attack)
railroad and military academy

3-12-45 (15.attack)
railroad and infrastructure

3-14-45 (16.attack)
3-15-45 (17.attack)
3-16-45 (18.attack)
each day between 13 and 18 attacking waves
180 killed

3-18-45 (19.attack)
some strafing

3-20-45 (20.attack)
2 waves against railroad

3-23-45 (21.attack)
City

3-24-45 (22.attack)
night attack

3-25-45 (23.attack)
night attack

3-26-45 (24.attack)
25 waves against city, railroad, infrastructure, industry
very heavy damage, big fires

3-29-45 (25.attack)

3-30-45 (26.attack)

3-31-45 (27.attack)

4-1-45 (28.attack)
night attack

4-1-45 (29.attack)
american bombers



attack 1 to 18: 825 killed
after that no real counting but it is estimated that there were more than 1000 killed persons in Wiener Neustadt

Of the 4000 buildings in Wiener Neustadt only 18 were undamaged; 65% destroyed and 23% very heavy damaged ( = uninhabitable )
At the end of war only 800 people still lived there.