BIG-SCALE RAID
GERMAN WAR FACTORY IN BAVARIA
104 ENEMY PLANES DESTROYED.
AMERICANS LOSE GO BOMBERS AND TWO FIGHTERS.
(By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright)
LONDON, October 14.
American Flying Fortresses from bases in Britain attacked in force, for the second time, the German ball and roller bearing works at Schweinfurt, in Bavaria, which were first raided in August. German fighter opposition was strong and fierce air fights developed. The Fortresses destroyed 91 enemy planes and the Thunderbolts 13, making a total of 104. Sixty American bombers and two fighters are missing. Every kind of German fighter was encountered. One American said: “We really smashed that factory.” When Schweinfurt was attacked two months ago the opposition was also very fierce and 39 bombers were lost. On that occasion Regensburg was also attacked on the same day and the total loss of 59 American bombers was then the highest loss from one day's attacks on Germany.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 15 October 1943, Page 4
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