28/7/1943, Fokker factories at Amsterdam

[Bertrand H]

Hi,

On 28th July 1943 the Fokker factories (repair facility for 190 ??) at Amsterdam was bombed (amongst others ?) by the 342 RAF squadron early in the morning.

However I wonder what are the results about this specific attack did during 12Grp Ramrod 2.

TIA

Bertrand

[Jaap Woortman]

Bertrand,

Acc. to the German Lageberichte:
Two schools were destroyed, a church, seven houses, an instrumentfactory, a furnaturefactory,
an oxygenfactory and two small companies were hit.
Eleven Dutch persons were killed and ten severely wounded and a large number with small wounds.
The raid was not identified as a raid on the Fokker factory.

So it seems that they have missed the Fokker factories. The Fokker factories were building Bücker
Bestman and Arado planes at that time.

Jaap

[Bertrand H]

Thanks for these details Jaap.

bertrand

[Hans Nauta]

Hi Bertrand,

None of the bombs hit the targer, but under or overshot and came down in populated area and adjacent wharves.
I do have a RAF strike photo and interpretation report of this attack if it's of any use to you.

Regards,
Hans Nauta