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  • "CLASSIC precision bombing featured this attack by 100 B-17s on a Focke-Wulf plant at Marienburg on Oct. 9, 1943. Results (above): two assembly buildings (1) gutted; another (2) damaged; hangars (3) gutted; stores and buildings (4) and boiler house (5) destroyed; other buildings (6) damaged. Cost to AAF: 2 B-17s. Pictures at left show target before (top) and during attack (bottom [5 B-17s]).[1]
Español: B-17 de la 8ª. Fuerza Aérea bombardeando una planta de Focke Wulf en Marienburg, Alemania, 1943.
Français : Un des premiers raids de la 8th USAAF sur l'Allemagne, en 1943. La cible est l'usine aéronautique Focke-Wulf de Marienbourg. La 8th perd 80 bombardiers.
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  1. ↑ Arnold, Henry H.--foreword (June 1944-Special Edition for AAF Organizations or May 1944) AAF: The Official Guide to the Army Air Forces/A Directory, Almanac and Chronicle of Achievement, Category:New York: Pocket Books, Inc., pp. 312−3

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