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Old 4th December 2018, 23:12
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Mission Report needed

Hi

I am looking for Mission Report for 459th BG from 26.12.1944 and from 18.12.1944. Target - Oświęcim (Auschwitz)

Does anybody help ?? I can buy it back.
Please help

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Old 11th December 2018, 19:21
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Re: Mission Report needed

https://www.459bg.org/WWII_Missions.cfm
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Old 11th December 2018, 20:31
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Re: Mission Report needed

Alex thanks for help but this page for this day (26.12.1944) is empty


https://www.459bg.org/Oswiecim_Poland_OR_12-26-1944.cfm
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Old 11th December 2018, 22:43
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Re: Mission Report needed

Maybe this book will help ?

See missions for 18 & 26 Dec 44 as well as other dates and Groups.

https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=...eports&f=false

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Re: Mission Report needed

This may have been a photo reconnaissance mission. I recall seeing a photo of the buildings/housing area, and it was marked Oświęcim without the apostrophe or eng tail (ogonek).


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Old 18th December 2018, 22:21
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Re: Mission Report needed

Hi

Edwest2 for sure no. This day was bombing mission over Oświęcim.
18.12.1944 - 454, 455, 459, 301 Bombing Group
26.12.1944 - 451, 455, 456, 459 Bombing Group
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Re: Mission Report needed

I am Polish and this is the first time I'm hearing something like this. I would like to know what the exact target was.

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Re: Mission Report needed

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I am Polish and this is the first time I'm hearing something like this. I would like to know what the exact target was.
Read the following:

Auschwitz And The Allies How the Allies Responded to the News of Hitler's Final Solution.
Gilbert,Martin
London:Michael Joseph,1981
pp.299-311 (Chapter 31 - Bombing Auschwitz: 'Cost ... to no purpose'.) & pp.330-335.

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Re: Mission Report needed

along the railways leading up to Auschwitz.
On August 20 and September 13, American bombers hit the industrial zone at
Auschwitz itself, just five miles from the camp's four gas chambers. The killing
installations at Birkenau, however, were never bombed
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In the bomber survey USAAF it is noted thusly:

Oil I.G. Farben Sławięcice Synthetic oil Oil Synthetic oil (Bergius) 350.000 tons capability. Sub camp Auschwitz 7-aug-44 27-aug-44 13-sep-44
Oil I.G. Farben Sławięcice Synthetic oil Oil Synthetic oil (Bergius) 125.000 tons capability. Sub camp Auschwitz 7-jul-44 7-aug-44 22-aug-44 27-aug-44 13-sep-44
Oil I.G. Farben Oswiecim Synthetic oil Oil Synthetic oil (Bergius) 200.000 tons capability. 20-aug-44 13-sep-44


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STRATEGIC OPERATIONS (Fifteenth Air Force): 460+ B-24s and B-17s, some fighter-escorted, bomb the airfield and marshalling yard at Szolnok, Hungary and oil refineries at Dubova, Czechoslovakia, and Czechowice and Auschwitz, Poland.

I.G. Farben Oswiecim damage estimate:




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