Schweinfurt–Regensburg mission

When

17 Aug 1943

Kind

Military operation

Coordinates

50.05° N, 10.23° E

Placed at the area, not an exact site.

1943 US Army Air Forces strategic bombing mission during World War II

The Schweinfurt–Regensburg mission was a strategic bombing mission during World War II carried out by Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress heavy bombers of the US Army Air Forces on August 17, 1943. The mission was an ambitious plan to cripple the German aircraft industry; it was also known as the "double-strike mission" because it entailed two large forces of bombers attacking separate targets in order to disperse fighter re…

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• Wikipedia year pages (Russian), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Налёт на Швайнфурт и Регенсбург”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page