27th September 2006, 17:55
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Alter Hase
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8th Air Force raid on 7 October 1944
The official USAAF chronology availbale online ( http://paul.rutgers.edu/~mcgrew/wwii/usaf/html/Oct.44.html) says for the above date:
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2. 333 B-17s are dispatched to hit the oil refinery at Ruhland (59); targets of opportunity hit are Zwickau Airfield (60), motor vehicle facotry at Zwickau (58), Dresden (30), Freiburg (24) and other (87); 3 B-17s are lost and 172 damaged. Escort is provided by 214 of 256 P-51s; they claim 12-0-0 aircraft in the air and 1-0-1 on the ground; 4 P-51s are lost (pilots MIA), 1 damaged beyond repair and 1 damaged; 1 pilot is WIA.
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I think there is a typo, and rather than Freiburg, it was the town of Freiberg, Saxony, that was bombed by some of these B-17s. 172 people were killed this day in this city by an air attack.
Can anyone confirm my assumption ? |
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