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Commemorating the historic air battles endured by the US 8th Air Force on the famous Schweinfurt raids of 1943
RETURN FROM SCHWEINFURT
Exactly a year after the 8th Air Force had completed its first ‘official’ mission of the war, 17 August 1943 saw them undertake their most ambitious raid to date – a two-pronged ‘double strike’ deep into the heart of Bavaria. The Eighth’s B-17s were going deeper into the Reich than ever before and, like the raid on Ploesti a few weeks earlier, much of the mission would be well beyond the range of fighter escort. A tough day lay ahead.
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SCHWEINFURT - THE SECOND MISSION
The weeks following the 17 August mission to Schweinfurt were some of the toughest faced by the bomber crews of the Eighth Air Force; losses of aircraft and men were higher than ever before and the seven-day period commencing Friday 8 October 1943 would come to be known as ‘Black Week’. Thursday 14 October would prove the most deadly of them all.
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