Wednesday, May 29, 2013

The Schweinfurt-Regensburg Mission, Martin Middlebrook.

The Schweinfurt-Regensburg Mission, Martin Middlebrook.

A very detailed account of the costly American daylight raids on Regensburg and Schweinfurt of 17 August 1943, a pair of maximum effort attacks that were meant to cripple parts of German industry but instead made it clear that even the heavily armed B-17 Flying Fortress couldn't operate without fighter escort.
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