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Old 26th June 2018, 20:51
Cees Steijger Cees Steijger is offline
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Re: Coevorden - 21 feb 1944

I think I solved this issue:
In 'Fortresses of the Big Triangle First' by Cliff T. Bishop on page 113 it reads "....the 94th (Combat Wing, cs) 'A' Box bombed an airfield at Rheine, while the 'B' bombed the railroad and some warehouses at Coevorden'.
From the 94th 351 BG was 'A' Group and bombed target of opportunity Achmer.
From the 94th 457 BG the A-formation failed to join with the 94th and joined the 41 CBW with Hamm as target.
The rest of 457 BG failed to bomb the primary target (Lippstadt) and could not find a target of opportunity thus jettisoned their bombs in the North Sea.
The A-formation of 457 BG bombed Quakenbrück with 41 CBW (this also solved the issue with B-17G 457BG/750BS 42-31596 'Tail End Charlie'!
what is left is 401 BG...which claims to have bombed Emlichheim - which the the local governement can't confirm, so I conclude it never happened - but according to Bishop was actually Coevorden. Right? Or am I missing something?

--Cees
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