| Blitz Week | |||||
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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 | |||||
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]
- ^ a b c Coffey, Thomas M. (1977). "Decision over Schweinfurt: The U.S. 8th Air Force Battle for Daylight Bombing". New York: David McKay Company. p. 242, 244–5, 265.
- ^ "Blitz Week | Operations & Codenames of WWII". codenames.info. Retrieved 2022-01-05.
- ^ Jablonski, Edward (1971). Airpower.
- Volume I: Jablonski, Edward (1971). Terror from the Sky. Doubleday. ISBN 978-0-385-04524-7.
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{{cite book}}:|work=ignored (help) pages 1-136 - Volume IV: García, Laura Gallego (October 2009). Wings of Fire. Ediciones del Laberinto S. L. ISBN 978-84-8483-406-9.
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- Volume I: Jablonski, Edward (1971). Terror from the Sky. Doubleday. ISBN 978-0-385-04524-7.
- ^ Arnold, Henry H.—Foreword (June 1944) [Special Edition for AAF Organizations, from May 1944]. AAF: The Official Guide to the Army Air Forces. New York: Pocket Books. p. 334.