Blitz Week
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Blitz Week was a period of United States Army Air Forces (USAAF) aerial bombardment during the 1943 Combined Bomber Offensive of World War II.[2] Air raids were conducted on six of seven days as part of Operation Gomorrah, against targets such as the chemical plant at Herøya, Norway, which produced nitrates for explosives;[1] and the AGO Flugzeugwerke AG plant[3]: IV-48, 51 (an Operation Pointblank target) at Oschersleben, Germany that assembled Focke-Wulf Fw 190s. The Kassel mission on July 28, 1943, was the first use of auxiliary external fuel tanks on the P-47 Thunderbolt.[4]
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Part of Strategic bombing campaign in Europe | |||||
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United States | Nazi Germany | ||||
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100 aircraft 1,000 aircrew killed, wounded, captured, or missing[1]: 242 |
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Main article: Strategic bombing during World War II
Not to be confused with Big Week.