14th Oct 1944

[antarmike]

Field Marshal Rommel, under suspicion as one of "Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg bomb plotters" voluntarily commits suicide to save his family.

 

The Attack of 20th July only succeeded in wounding Hitler, but cost many their lives.

[Chappers]

!4th October 1943,was the US 8th Air Forces heaviest loss's on the Schweinfurt Raid (Ball bearing factory), I think it was 60 B17's lost on the raid .

[Joris]

60?

[antarmike]

291 Bomber took part in the raid.

 

In the final tally, fifty-nine Flying Fortresses were shot down over Germany, one ditched in the English Channel on the return flight, five crashed in England, and twelve more were scrapped due to battle damage or crash landings (more by AA-guns than by fighter aircraft), a total loss of seventy seven B-17s. 122 bombers were damaged to some degree and needed repairs before their next flight. Out of 2,900 men in the crews, about 650 men did not return, although 65 survived as POWs. Five were killed and forty-three wounded in the damaged aircraft that made it home, and 594 were listed as Missing in Action. Only thirty-three bombers landed without damage. The 306th Bomb Group was hard hit, losing 100 men, of which 35 died on the mission, or of wounds, and 65 were captured. The 305th Bomb Group lost 130 men, with 36 killed. The loss rate had left the group devastated

[Joris]

Yeah I can imagine....