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Bombing of Friedrichshafen in World War II

The German city of Friedrichshafen was bombed during World War II as part of the Allied strategic bombing campaign against German war materiel industry, particularly in the targeting of German fighter aircraft production and long range missile development.

Background

Friedrichshafen lies in the Bodenseekreis district on Lake Constance in the extreme south of Germany, and at the time it was at the edge of the German nightfighter defences. Targets included the Dornier Flugzeugwerke aircraft works at Manzell, the Maybach tank engine factory, the Luftschiffbau Zeppelin aircraft works and its Oberraderach test facility near Raderach, and the Zahnradfabrik Friedrichshafen (literally "gearwheel factory Friedrichshafen") tank gearbox factory.

In February 1944 an underground factory at Immenstaad near Friedrichshafen was suspected to be a synthetic oil and/or liquid oxygen plant.[1][2]Near Überlingen,[2] forced labor of concentration camp prisoners in the Goldbach tunnels,[2] KZ Nebenlager Raderach[3] and the Aufkirch subcamp of Dachau concentration camp was used for constructing an underground facility for armament manufacturing (code name "Magnesit"[2]) safe from Allied air raids.

Attacks

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Notes
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  2. ^ a b c d http://www.stollen-ueberlingen.de/lng/england.htm (Google translation)
  3. ^ "KZ Nebenlager Raderach" (in German). V2Werk-Oberraderach.com. Retrieved 2010-12-27. (Google translation)
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  7. ^ a b Neufeld, Michael J. (1995). The Rocket and the Reich: Peenemünde and the Coming of the Ballistic Missile Era. New York: The Free Press. p. 143, 174,193. ISBN 978-0-02-922895-1.
  8. ^ "Campaign Diary April 1944". Royal Air Force Bomber Command 60th Anniversary. UK Crown. Archived from the original on 2007-07-06. Retrieved 27 December 2010.
  9. ^ "485th Missions". 485th Bomb Group Association. Archived from the original on 2011-07-24. Retrieved 2010-12-27.
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  12. ^ Speer, Albert (1970). Inside the Third Reich. Translated by Richard; Clara Winston. New York and Toronto: Macmillan. p. 433. ISBN 978-0-684-82949-4. LCCN 70119132.
  13. ^ McKillop, Jack. "Combat Chronology of the USAAF". Archived from the original on 2007-06-10. Retrieved 2007-05-25. February 1945 Archived 2013-09-29 at the Wayback Machine
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