Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/8th AF Bombing Marienburg

The Bombing of a Focke-Wulf at Marienburg, October 1943

Voting period ends on 13 Nov 2024 at 23:22:17 (UTC)

Original – A precision bombing featured this attack by 100 B-17s on a Focke-Wulf plant at Marienburg on Oct. 9, 1943. This led to the damage of 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.

Reason

High quality photo of WW2, showing a plane, field and explosion in one picture which makes for a pretty good photo

Articles in which this image appears

World War II, Aerial bombing of cities

FP category for this image

Wikipedia:Featured pictures/History/World War II

Creator

Unknown author

• Support as nominator – Wcamp9 (talk) 23:22, 3 November 2024 (UTC)