The Augsburg Raid, also referred to as Operation Margin, was a bombing raid made by the RAF on the MAN U-boat engine plant in Augsburg undertaken during...
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He is most famous for leading the Augsburg raid, a daylight attack against the MAN U-boat engine plant in Augsburg on 17 April 1942. For his role in this...
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Augsburg (UK: /ˈaʊɡzbɜːrɡ/ OWGZ-burg, US: /ˈɔːɡz-/ AWGZ-, German: [ˈaʊksbʊʁk] ; Swabian German: Ougschburg) is a city in the Bavarian part of Swabia, Germany...
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Patrick Dorehill (section The Augsburg Raid)
Nettleton during the Augsburg raid, where they carried out a daring daylight attack against the MAN U-boat engine plant at Augsburg in southern Germany...
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Karl-Heinz Greisert (section The Augsburg raid)
attack on the U-boat engine factory in Augsburg". The Times. 6 July 2016. Retrieved 14 March 2018. "The Augsburg Raid, 70 years later". BBC News. 17 April...
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The bombing of Augsburg in World War II included two British RAF and one USAAF bombing raids against the German city of Augsburg on 17 April 1942 and...
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Jakob Fugger (section Fuggerhäuser in Augsburg)
Imperial City of Augsburg. He was born and later also elevated through marriage to Grand Burgher of Augsburg (Großbürger zu Augsburg). Within a few decades...
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The largest force to date (272 aircraft) bomb Hamburg. 17 April: The Augsburg Raid is the first to attempt low-level daylight bombing for accuracy - in...
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Mosquito Victory (1983) The Augsburg Raid (1987) Wings Over Georgia (1989) Battle Under the Moon: An Account of the RAF raid on Mailly-le-Camp (1995) Round...
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Battle of Lechfeld (redirect from Battle of Augsburg)
communications and catch them in their rear while they were raiding northeast of Augsburg. It was also a central point of concentration for all the contingents...
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Patrick Dorehill (1938), Royal Air Force bomber pilot - flew the daring Augsburg raid in 1942. George Ellis (Cantab) (1955), scientist and author (co-written...
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Bombing of Darwin (redirect from Darwin air raid)
power on Australia. On that day, 242 Japanese aircraft, in two separate raids, attacked the town, ships in Darwin Harbour and the town's two airfields...
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flown at night. After suffering heavy losses attempting daylight bombing raids over the Heligoland islands in the North Sea and over France during the...
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Fuggerei (category Buildings and structures in Augsburg)
housing complex still in use. It is a walled enclave within the city of Augsburg, Bavaria. It takes its name from the Fugger family and was founded in 1516...
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Augsburg-Haunstetten, also known as Haunstetten-Siebenbrunn is one of the seventeen Planungsräume (English: Planning district, singular: Planungsraum)...
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Sole surviving crew of 44 Squadron following the Augsburg raid. John Nettleton is sitting second from the left....
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the Doolittle Raid in April 1942 and small-scale raids on military positions in the Kuril Islands from mid-1943. Strategic bombing raids began in June...
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SMS Augsburg was a Kolberg-class light cruiser of the German Kaiserliche Marine (Imperial Navy) during the First World War. She had three sister ships...
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Staffel, was shot down. Of note, commander Oesau engaged elements of the Augsburg raid in April 1942, as it overflew his headquarters and Stab/JG 2 claimed...
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Schwabmünchen (category Augsburg (district))
administrative region of Swabia south of Augsburg in the Augsburg district. Schwabmünchen lies about 20 km south of Augsburg between Lech and Wertach on the western...
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Bombing of Tokyo (10 March 1945) (redirect from Great Tokyo Air Raid)
firebombing raid on Tokyo, the Japanese capital city. This attack was code-named Operation Meetinghouse by the USAAF and is known as the Tokyo Great Air Raid (東京大空襲...
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Operation Bellicose (section La Spezia raid)
had gained a reputation for daring low-level attacks. First came the Augsburg raid of 17 April 1942, when six Lancasters of No. 44 Squadron and another...
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and is, a significant German city, as much culturally as industrially. Augsburg, thirty-seven miles to the west, was a main centre of diesel engine production...
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Strategic bombing during World War II (redirect from Allied bombing raid)
a raid aimed at creating a maximum of destruction in a selected town since the summer of 1940, and the opportunity was given after the German raid on...
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Nine Years' War (redirect from War of the League of Augsburg)
of 1684) and Sweden (in its capacity as princes in the Empire) met in Augsburg to form a defensive league of the Rhine in July 1686. Pope Innocent XI...
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Goldener Saal (category Buildings and structures in Augsburg)
by an air raid and were reconstructed in 1996. Homepage (in German) Media related to Goldener Saal (Augsburg) at Wikimedia Commons Augsburg-Wiki entry...
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The Taihoku Air Raid was the largest Allied air raid on the city of Taihoku (modern-day Taipei), then under Japanese colonial rule, during World War II...
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Bombing of Berlin in World War II (redirect from 1943 Mosquito Raid Of Berlin)
Berlin, the capital of Nazi Germany, was subject to 363 air raids during the Second World War. It was bombed by the RAF Bomber Command between 1940 and...
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Bombing of Tokyo (section Doolittle Raid)
was a series of air raids on Japan launched by the United States Army Air Forces during the Pacific War in 1944–1945. The raids that were conducted by...
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Torservers.net (section Bavarian Raid)
raid was prompted by a blog post from an unrelated activist that promised violence against an upcoming Alternative for Germany convention in Augsburg...
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