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Daylight Bombing Gamble: The Schweinfurt–Regensburg Mission
The Schweinfurt–Regensburg Mission was an ambitious gamble taken by the U.S. Army Air Forces in an effort to cripple German military production.
By Richard Rule
In early 1942, the U.S. Eighth Air Force arrived in England firmly entrenched in the belief that continuous and accurate daylight precision bombing was the only way to decisively crush German industrial capacity. U.S. Army Air Forces commanders recognized that these daylight operations were high-risk affairs but were confident that large formations of Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress bombers, equipped with the remarkably accurate Norden bombsight, would reap more rewards than the nig
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My mother, was a child growing up in Regensburg during WWII and told my siblings about the air raid on the Messerschmidt plant 8/17/45, when we were kids. The plant was near the Danube River and her school was on a hill overlooking it. The doors were locked from the inside and as the bombs were falling, workers were breaking windows to flee the fires. People had no arms, legs, were on fire and other macabre images.
After the war, her younger brother was killed by a grenade lobbed his direction by another child, while playing among the rubble in the city.
One of the planes my grandfather flew during WWII was a Heinkel 111 Zwillig.