824

09 February 1945

825

10 February 1945
'Disney' bombs are dropped on E-boat pens in Ijmuiden, Holland. The 4,500 lb rocket propelled bombs were designed to penetrated up to 20ft of concrete before exploding.

826

10 February 1945

827

11 February 1945

828

12 February 1945

829

13 February 1945

831

14 February 1945

8AF 830

14 February 1945

832

15 February 1945

833

16 February 1945

834

17 February 1945

835

19 February 1945
1,100 Heavies Hit Nazi Rails...

8th Air Force 837 LEAFLET DROP

20 February 1945
11 B-24s from the Night Leaflet Squadron, 305BG/422BS are despatched on a night operation to frop leaflets on towns in Holland and Germany. The number of leaflets dropped was not sepcified in source data. One aircraft aborted the mission becuase of...

8th Air Force 838

20 February 1945
30 B-24s from 492BG were despatched on a night operation to bomb the railroad marshalling yards at Neustadt, Germany using PFF. There are no losses, casualties or claims....

836

20 February 1945
"Continuing their offensive against the Nazi communications, 900 Fortresses of the 8th Air Force, attacking in two giant waves, thundered over Nuremberg yesterday to shower the cities huge railway yards and locomotive repair shops with more than 11,000...

840

21 February 1945

839

21 February 1945

842

22 February 1945

841

22 February 1945

844

23 February 1945
Big Week

843

23 February 1945

846

24 February 1945

845

24 February 1945

848

25 February 1945

847

25 February 1945
"The Aerial Sledgehammer fashioned by bombers of the 8th and 15th Air Forces and the RAF fell on German communications and fuel supplies for the forth day in a row yesterday as 1,150 Fortresses and Liberators of the 8th hit railyards, airfields, an oil...

850

26 February 1945

849

26 February 1945
Narrative - Official Air Force Mission Description...

853

27 February 1945

8th Air Force 851

27 February 1945
1,107 bombers and 745 fighters are dispatched to hit road and rail communications at Halle and Leipzig using H2X radar

851

27 February 1945

855

28 February 1945

856

28 February 1945

854

28 February 1945

858

01 March 1945

857

01 March 1945

860

02 March 1945

859

02 March 1945

862

03 March 1945

861

03 March 1945

864

04 March 1945

863

04 March 1945

866

05 March 1945

867

05 March 1945

865

05 March 1945

868

06 March 1945

869

07 March 1945

870

07 March 1945

871

07 March 1945

873

08 March 1945

872

08 March 1945
Mission 872: 1,353 bombers and 326 fighters are dispatched to hit benzol plants, an oil plant and rail targets in Germany using PFF; NO AIRCRAFT ARE LOST AND THERE ARE NO CASUALTIES!...