ROYAL AIR FORCE: OPERATIONS BY THE PHOTOGRAPHIC RECONNAISSANCE UNITS, 1939-1945. - Vertical photographic-reconnaissance aerial taken over Friedrichshafen, Germany, following the raid by 322 aircraft of Bomber Command on the night of 27/28 April 1944. Several large buildings have been destroyed in the Maybach Motorenbau GmBH engine factory (top). There is also severe damage to buildings of the Luftshiffbau Zeppelin, including the giant airship hangar (lower left), and group of 60 huts adjacent to this plant are two-thirds destroyed (middle right). This was an outstandingly successful attack, la
ROYAL AIR FORCE: OPERATIONS BY THE PHOTOGRAPHIC RECONNAISSANCE UNITS, 1939-1945. - Vertical photographic-reconnaissance aerial taken over Friedrichshafen, Germany, following the raid by 322 aircraft of Bomber Command on the night of 27/28 April 1944. Several large buildings have been destroyed in the Maybach Motorenbau GmBH engine factory (top). There is also severe damage to buildings of the Luftshiffbau Zeppelin, including the giant airship hangar (lower left), and group of 60 huts adjacent to this plant are two-thirds destroyed (middle right). This was an outstandingly successful attack, later adjudged to be the most damaging raid on German tank production of the war. 67 per cent of Friedrichshafen's ubran area was destroyed, Royal Air Force, 106 Group
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