Strategic Bombing Of Axis Europe January 1943 September 1944_2

BOMB DAMAGE TO GERMAN INd4|ISW 1 January

1943-30

September

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assembly shops. ; - bldgs Unidentified bldg 1/2

-

29 May Bth AF 20 July Bth AF

2.

Erla

Leipzig/

Heiterblick

Fuselages & control surfaces for ME 109; wing fitting.

20 Feb Bth AF 29 May Bth AF

-

Bth AF

14..

5 Messerschmidt

Regensburg/

Prufening

3/lj. Dec U3

components

!

.

5» Messerschmidt Assembly of ME 109

Regensburg/ planes . Formerly

Obertraubling Me 323 assembly.

1? Aug

6f6 f Steyr-Daimler Components for ME Puch 109 f s (underearriges Steyr etc») Also engine com­

Messerschmidt Klagenfurt.

or damaged. 3 component shops, boiler house, sub­ assembly shop & other bldgs damaged or destroyed. Damage to 2 small workshops workshops & comcom­ ponent erecting shop. Moderate damage

, AFV

U3-Severe

22 Feb 15th AF

2l|. Feb

15th

AF

assembly & 2 subassembly shops de­ mo lished; 17 otb?: bldgs daciag-ed -Very severe, dania^.

3

Damage to machine & component shops.

and small

Wing tips & ailerons

for ME 109' s

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t

Bth AF 22 Feb -All important & other bldgs damaged. 15th AF -Severely. 25 Feb Bth & 15th AF 21 July -Severe Bth AF

21 July oun AF

7«

- 95% destroyed

RAF

Major components for ME 109 's assembled at Obertraubling Formerly assembly & components

ponents arms.

destroyed. Both flight hangars & 2 of 3 assembly shops severely damaged.

75

29 June

ME 109 3. Erla Leipzig/tVerk

•

•

Date o: Attack

#

•

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16 Jan lsth AF

14.

workshops severely dampged; 3 shops damaged*

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Target

#

ate o Attack

Importance

Damage

IAIRCRAFT

A. GAF Single-engine Fighters

(a) Bile 109 (continued) 8. Wiener Neustadter Wiener Neustadt /

Me 109 assembly I Components from works ,

9» Wiener

•

Neustadter Wiener Neustadt

Me II

109

-U3

*

lk Aug 14.3

Moderate Moderate Severe Large workshop, machine shop & assembly shop sev­ erely damaged; other bldgs damag­ cd.

12 Apr. 10 May

Large machine shog, sub-assembly shop, component shop ', j metal & pressing shop & other bldgs severely damaged. Assembly shops, flight hangar & large workshop damaged •

1 Oct *ij3 2 Nov f 12,23 Apr *• 10 May 15th AF

6

components

15th AF

29 May

15th AF

12,23 Apr

assembly-

10. Wiener Neustadter Bad Voslau

Me

11. Wiener Neustadter Fischamond Markt

Me 109 components, probably wings

12. Wiener

Me

109

13. Amme-Luther-

Me

109

11+.

Believed producing components or possibly assembling Me'

109

15th

Seek Atzgersdorf

Wiener Neustadter

(ikarus-Rogozarski)

Belgrade/

_

AF

1

Very severe damage to k possible assembly hangars, 2 repair hangars & flight hpngars.

12 April 15th AF

2 large workshops & components shop severely damaged. Stores, shops & offices also dam­ aged.

components

30 May 15th AflF

Main workshop partially destroyed.

components

30

Neustadter Neudorfl

•

__

May

15th AF

m

}}

17 April

2k

109

April f s. 15th AF

% ff8 W

2 large shops & hangar damaged. Considerable damage to Ikarus factory & practi­ cally complete destruction of Rogo zarski.

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Importance

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Date of Attack

Damage

x AIRCEAFT A. GAF Single-engine

Fighters

(a) Me 109 (continued) 15. Spinnerei & Weberei Kottern

damage

to

Me 109 components

19 July Bth AF

A/C

30 May 15th AF

Moderate damage.

Me 109 components

30 May 15th AF

Severe damage.

18. G. A- F. Station Delitzsch A/F

Me 109 assembly

16 Aug Bth AF

Damage to 2 flight hangars, boiler house.

19. G. A. F. Station Zwolf axing A/F

Suspected Me 109

8 July 15th AF

Damage to 5 hangars & shops & to other bldgs »

Me 109 assembly

9 Aug 15th AF

Severe damage to component erection shop, power plant, hangar, assembly hangar, & unidenti­ fied bldgs.

Me 109 components

13 April 15th AF

Moderate damage

Assembly of Me 109 's

16

Kempt en

16. Rohrbach Neunkirchen

17. Pottendorf

components

Spinnerei

Severe

main workshop & 6 other bldgs.

Pottendorf

*

20. Magyar Waggonfabrik Gyor

A/F

21. Hungarian Wagon Works

assembly

Gyor

22. I.A. R. Brasov

•

April

15th AF

-Damage to machine shops assembly shops & assembly

Target

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Attack

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» 1*

Ago

Assembly A -components

,Oschersleben

fqr FW

190*8

28

Jul'ltf

Bth AF 11 Jan Bth AF

$0 Feb 8&1 AF

U April

-

Bth. AF

May Bth AF

30

29 June Bth AF

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2. Fiesler

Kassel/Valdau

3» Fiesler

Kassel/

Bettenhausen

U.

Focke Wulf Tutow

FW 190 assembly, and possibly major components

Components !s FW

i9O

for

30 Jul U3

Bth AF 19 April Bth AF

Oct 3A MF

19 April Bth AF

FW 190 assembly est 60/

no.

9

April

Bth*AF 13 May

3th AF'

29 May Bth AF

*

5.

FocteWulf Marienltourg

Assembly of FW 190.

-

-

Moderate Heavy damage to machine & assembly shops. All imDortant bldgs damaged Damage to main workshop, 2 assembly shops & other bldgs. h unidentified bldgs destroyed. Damage to machine shop, 2 assembly shop s , co mpon ent shop & boiler house. Add'l extensive damage.

Moderate Severe damage to 2 of 3 large work­ shops & 3rd damaged. 6 small workshops damaged.

•* Moderate

Damage to 3 machine shops , 2 component erecting shops,, offices & stores

1 large hangar several bldg« damaged. 1 workshop hangar 2/3 destroyed; others damaged. 5 hangars & other Tfoldgs damaged.

9 Oct 'I+3 Bth AF

Severe

9 April

Assembly shop des­ troyed & 1 damaged;

Bth AF

10 unidentified bldgs destroyed; other bldgs damaged.

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C5~5268,AF

•

Target

ate o Attack

Importance

Damage

I.AIHCRAFT

* A. OAF Single-engine Fighters

(b) FW 190 (continued) 6,

FocteWulf Cottbus

FW 190 assembly formerly est mo «

11 April Bth AP

50/

-

Damage to 2 large workshops & 5 un­ identified bldgs. • 2 probable assembly hangars destroyed & 1 severely damaged. 2 hangars, gun testing range & other bldgs damaged.

29 June Bth AF

7. FocteWulf Sorau

•

11 April Bth AF

FW 190 assembly

-

29

May Bth AF

8. Focke Wulf Krzesinki

FW

9* Focke Wulf

FW 190 components fuselages & control surfaces

Posen

190

components

-

-

May Bth AF

Heavy damage to subassembly shop & all component workshops „ Roof damage to boiler house.

9 April

Largest bldg & 2 other bldgs damaged severely. 1 large & h other bldgs destroyed. 3 buildings severely damaged.

Bth AF

•

11. Arado Anklam

190. components (fuselages)

FW

FW

190

'I+3

29 Jul

Bth AF 9 April Bth AF

components.

components production through destruction of 13 out of 15 small factories in the town • Destruction of 6 machine shops & 14. bldgs j severe damage to 3 hangars.

29

29 May Bth AF

10. Arado Warnemunde

Possible damage to

9 Oct

Bth AF U Aug Bth AF

f

i4-3

-

Moderate

- Main workshop

-

complex, boiler house & stores severely damaged; other bldgs damaged.

Moderate Severe damage to boiler house. Damage to workshops & stores

C5-5268,AF 48

\

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mpo rtgn oe I

Target

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Attft6%

rt

A^yneafee

I.AIRCRAFT A* CAF Sfogle*en*girie fighters

(b) FW 190 (continued) 12, Kannenburg Gdynia

(Rahmel k/p)

FW

190 assembly

Also

a/C

repair.

9 April

2 large hpngars, 7

Bth AF

workshops &

3 store

bldgs severely dam­ aged.

6 Aug Bth AF 1

13 • Norddeutsche Dornier Wismar

•

li-U

Norddeutsche Dornier Lubeck

15.

G,A.F.

Damage to 2 assembly or repair shops, stores, & several un­ identified bldgs.

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All major bldgs severely damaged at assembly plant » 6 workshops & boilerhouses damaged at components plant.

Assembly & components of FW 190

25 Aug

Components FW 190

25

Aug Bth AF

3

h Aug

Slight damage.

25 Aug Bth AF

Damage

A/C.

Station FW Schwerin

k/F

for

190 assembly

16. G.A.F. Station FW 190 assembly Halberstadt

Bth AF

workshops severely damaged, 1 destroyed; 3 sheds damaged.

Bth AF

-

Aug Bth AF

5

16 Aug Bth AF

17. G.A.F. Station Neubrandenburg/

FW

Bremen gen

5

hangars.

Severe damage to 5 , hangars & 2 medium workshops. Severe damage to 3 hangars & several bldgs possibly stores or workshops.

-

assembly.

25

Aug Bth AF

Destruction of 3 unidentified bldgs; damage to h sheds.

Probably FW 190

30 Aug Bth AF

Severe damage, including power plant, machine shop, ma­ chine & assembly shop. Damage to machine assembly shop, small unidentified bldg f

190

Trollehagen

18. Focke Wulf

to

/Heme lin-A/fc

components,

•

26

Sept Bth AF

­

C5-5268,AF

- 49 -

Target

#

I. Aift&ASt B,

,t

1, M*I«A*G»

Assembly of

Damage

Attack

g^gtlters

GAF

Brunswick/

Date of

Importance

ke* lib's

11 Jan Bth AF

-

Severe damage to assembly shops ; damage

Waggum

to sub­

assembly shops & other bldgs *

- Damage

to" 5 unidentified bldgs. Sev­

5 Aug Bth AF

-

24

Aug Bth AF

2. M.I.A.G,

Brunswick/

29 Mar

Bth AF

13/14

3. M.I.A.G,

Brunswick/

Components

for

Me 110*3

Wilhelmitoi4

Aug

feldgs damaged.

20,21 Feb * 15,23

10 workshops & stores severely damaged. Power house, & other bldgs damag­ ed. 2 large workshops & power house damaged. Moderate damage.

29 Mar

5 Aug Bth AF

13/U

Aug

RAF 8 April 19 May

Bth AF

Bernburg

- damaged* All but 2 major

RAF

Bth AF

4 « Junkers

Assembly of Ju 88 TS fighters -Ju 188 bombers & fighters & JU 52 transports »

20 Feb Bth AF 11 April

29 June Bth AF

#

7 July Bth AF

*

Main fcty bldg, several shops, mach­ ine shops, stores & other bldgs

Feb

Neupetritor

•

-

20,21

Components for MS 110's, also tanks

ere damage to sub­ assembly shops & store. Damage to 3 hangars; several unidentified bldgs destroyed*

-

11 workshops now severely damaged; storage bldgs des­ troyed or damaged.

-

-

2 assembly shops & minor bldgs damaged Some damage to 2 assembljr shops. 5 other bldgs dcs­ troyed or damaged. Damage to assembly shop ,shop ,flight hangar, small hangar, large store, & small • hangar. Several small bldgs damaged.

C5-5268,AF 50

Daxe of

Target

*

Importance

Attack

Damage

11 Jan

2 of 6 large shops & other bldgs dam­

I AIRCRAFT B. GAF Twin-Engine Fighters (continued) Wings for Ju 88 5•5 • Junkers Halberstadt Fighters*

Bth AF 20 Feb Bth AF

30

aged.

May

Severe damage to

Bth AF

6. Junkers

Fuselages

for Ju 88* s Aschersleben and JU 52 's assembled

20 Feb

Assembly of ME 110 's

Gotha

and Go 242 gliders. Also components.

+ 8. Bachmann

Components

Furth

assembled

7 July Bth AF

Damage to most of important bldgs \u2666 4 of 7 large workshops severely hit. 4- large, 1 medium & 2 small workshops damaged. 2 small workshops destroyed. Machine shop & other bldgs damaged.

24- Feb Bth AF

Severe damage*

20 July Bth AF

Damage to 11 work­ shops, 2 assembly shops, 4- hangars, 5 large bldgs of the locomotive, lorry & tank fcty, offices & unidentified bldgs.

Bth AF

at Bernburg.

7. Gothaer

all important bldgs.

for ME 110 f s at Gotha.

- Damage

25 Feb Bth AF

-

10 Sept Bth AF 9. Messerschmidt Augsburg

Assembly of

MS 4-10 f s

Also design of

25 Feb planes. Bth AF

13

­

16,19 Jul

-

April Bth AF

•

Bth AF

51

Uil^Lliwdi/isy

to machine, assembly & sub-assem­ bly shops', workshops, stores offices & other bldgs \u2666 Severe damage to 1 large machine shop & large assembly sh.op

•

f

Component & sub-assem^­ bly shops destroyed; damage to component shops, 2 assembly shops 2 workshops hangars, stores & sheds Component shop, mach- .' me & press shop; 4­ hangars severely dam­ aged; damage to mach­ ine shopj sheds &

, .

,

other bldgs. Damage

to large subassembly & machine shop, boiler house, power house, workshop & 2 hangars.

C5-5268,AF

Target

*

Importance

Attack

Damage

18 Mar Bth AF

Repair shop severely damaged. Offices & stores damaged. 2 of 4 large assembly shops severely damagec repair shop now destroyed; small bldgs damaged or destroyed. Damage to 3 hangars, repair shop, assembly shop & other bldgs. Damage to assembly or repair shop, hang­ ar & unidentified bldg.

I.AIRCRAFT B. GAF Twin-Bngine Fighters

(continued)

10. Dornier Oberpfaffenhofen

Assembly of Do 217 and Ue 4-10. Also repairs

.

5 April

13 April 24 April Bth AF

13 June

15th AF 21 July Bth AF

11* Dornier Neuaubing

Components Me 410

Damage to main store, large workshop & small bldg* Small workshop & stores

19,21 July 8 & 15 AF

for

completely destroyed. Moderate damage*

31 July

Bth AF

#

Repair & possibly assembly of Me 410*

18 July 15th AF 20 July 15th AF

Assembly of Me 210

3,13 Apr 15th AF

12. G.A*F.

Station Memmingen

A/F

13. Duna Budapest/

2 repair hangars gutted, hangars, damaged: Heavy "damage

3

2 assembly hangars, flight hangar, & other bldgs damaged* Damage to 2 flight hangars # Damage to 2 assembly shops, several small bldgs & stores.

Tokol

30 July 15th AF 9 Aug

15th AF

14. Duna Budapest/ Szigetszentmiklos

Aero-engines & A/C components

3,13 Apr 15th AF

30

.

Damage to the 5 large components erection shops and to other bldgs. Aero-engine assembly shop also damaged. Damage to 4 machine or components, shops *

July

15th AF i

•«

15. V oiks wag onwerk Ju 88 wings & possibly Me 110 Fallersleben components (also MT & flying bomb components )

8 April 20 June Bth AF

29 June Bth AF

—52

-

-

Minor damage. Damage to large machine & assembly shop, 2 machine shops & press shops. Further damage to 3 machine shops. Numer­ ous barracks destroyed.

C5-5268,/iF H

IIft!.%f JSWf£IF?i

Date of Target

Importance

Attack

Damage

23 April 15th AF

Main assembly shop damaged, 2 workshops

IAIRCRAFT

#

B,

GAF Twin-Sngine Fighters (continued) Experimental work. Also He 219 fighter & possibly jet-

16. Heinkel Schwechat

A/C

assembly.

& 2 flight hangars

26 June 15th AF

damaged ,

- Damage to A/C gun

testing range, flight hangars,

k

main assembly shop, large workshop, office & barrack & unidentifi­ ed bldgs.

I.AIRCRAFT

•

C. GAF Jet-Propelled Fighters

1. Dornier

Friedrichshafen/ Manzell

Formerly assembly of seaplanes; Believed converting to jet A/C production.

16,18 March Bth AF 28 Mar Bth AF

2*,.27/28 April RAF 3 May Bth AF

18 July 15th AF 3 Aug 15th AF

2. Dornier

Friedrichshafen/ Lowenthal and Allmannsweiler

Believed tooling up 27/28 Apr for jet-propelled RAF fighter production. 20 July

15th AF

3* Messerschmidt


Lechf eld

A/F

Training, repair, 13 Apr experimental work & Bth AF on jet-propelled fighter A/C. 12 Sept 15th AF

-

Severe damage to 3 shops; damage to engineerings shops. 2 assembly

hangars, metal shop

& other bldgs damaged;

offices damaged.

1 bldg destroyed.

- Machine

shop destroyed Metal shops', 13 small & 6 medium bldgs,

machine shop, assembly shop & assembly hangar damaged. Severe damage*

- Factory

devastated.

- Main assembly

shop

severely damaged,

2 repair hangars & other bldgs damaged.

- Damage

to main assem­ bly shop & sheds.

4- of 7 main hangars

-

destroyed; other bldgs destroyed or damaged. Damage to 5 hangars & 3 bldgs.

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Date of Attack

Importance

Target

Damage

lAIRCRAFT C. GAF Jet- Propelled Fighters (Cont'd.

4. Messerschmidt Leipheim

A/F

Important operational 2-4 Apr field formerly assem- Bth AF

-4- of 10 main hangers destroyed & 6 damaged. 5 workshops destroyed & 1 damaged. Other

bling Me 323 r s & Me 321' s. Believed as­ sembling jet-propelled fighters

19 July Bth AF

5. Messerschmidt Leipheim/

Components

for

Me 262.

12 Sept 15th AF

bldgs destroyed or . damaged. -Some fresh damage to already devastated hangars & shops. Damage to main bldg & stores.

Wasserberg

•

1 AIRCRAFT D. G.A.F. Bombers,

1. A.T.A.G. Leipzig/ Mockau

Transport, Misc. Assembly of JU 88

bombers and JU 52

transports

.

20 Feb Bth AF

29 May Bth AF

7 July

Severe damage to 3 assembly shops & flight hangar. -Damage to assembly shop, flight hangar, boiler house & un­ identified bldg. -Moderate damage

.

Bth AF 2.' A.T.A.G. Leipzig

3. Heinkel

Rostock/

Marienehe

JU 88 bomber &

JU 52 transport

components.

Assembly of He 111 bombers & He 219 twin-engine fighters

/

•

31 Dec RAF 7 July Bth AF 20 Feb

Bth AF

4- Aug Bth AF 25 Aug Bth AF

4-3 -Moderate

damage.

.

Damage to several bldgs -Damage to 4- com­ ponent, 4- boiler

houses, experimental

bldg. & stores.

-Damage to assembly

bldgs, component

shops. & stores.

-Damage to hangars,

* assembly shops,

5 boiler house, stores

6 shops.

4. Heinkel

Rostock/

Components Ill's.

for H$

Barnsdorf

VHHHHPF

20 Feb Bth AF

-Two large & 1 small

bldgs nearly dcs­ troyed.

C5~5263,AF

**»r

Target

Date- o: Attack

ortance

&

fyf

U

Damage

I. AIRCRAFl1

D. G.A.F. Bombers, Transport, MilC»

5. Heinkel

Rostock/

Components He 111.

for

Bleicher Str.

6. Heinkel

He 111 and He 177 Oranienburg/ assembly. Annahof

1. Heinkel

•

18 Apr Bth AF

Unidentified bldg 3/4 destroyed;

He

177

components.

18 Apr Bth AF

He 177 assembly

18,29 Apr 8 May Bth AF 6 Aug Bth AF

Severe damage to 2 large workshops & 3 stores or office bldgs

.

Damage to machine shop & large uni­ dentified bldg.

to every

-Damage

major bldg.

9. Arado Rathenow

He 177 Components

18 Apr Bth AF

Several smaller workshops destroyed or severely damaged. Two of 3 large workshops moderately damaged; power house gutted.

10. Arado

Production of fuselages & minor components for He 177 & Ju 88.

29 June Bth AF

Severe damage to 4 large workshops, boil er house, offices, stores & other bldgs.

8 Oct._43 Bth AF

Slight damage.

Dec 43 Bth AF

Slight damage.

Wittemburg

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11. Weser Flug- Assembly & cornzeugbau Bremen

ponents for Ju

87's.

12. A/C Factory Formerly bomber Wels

#

Severe damage to metal workshops, assembly shop, machine shop & other bldgs »

flight hangar & testing range slightly damaged.

Oranienburg/ possibly wings for Germandorf Ju 88,

8# Arado Brandenburg

11 Apr Bth AF

repair.

Believed

assembly of Ju 87's.

13. Henschel

Berlin/

Johannistal

Assembly of Hs 126 \u26 6 Also

dive bombers repair.

24 June Bth AF

Damage to 6 workshops; assembly shop, machine or press shop, minor bldgs & stores

30

3 workshops & long

May

.

15th AF

shed destroyed; 2 workshops damaged.

Jan

Moderate

RAF

IJ i^

i« X

''

' l<

damage

*

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»

•ate o. Attack

Importance

Target

Damage

*• AIRCRAFT D. G.A.F.

Bombers,

Transport > Misc.

(continued)

v. Focke

Wulf Components for FW 200 »s; possibly Berlin/ Treptow repair

15. Flettner

Berlin/ Treptow

16. Siebel

Halle/Klemm

Assembly &. repair of trainers & gliders

Jan

Severe

Moderate damage.

Jan RAF

f

Ju 88 & 188 bomber components & assembly.

Damage

7 July Bth AF

«

Flug­ Ju 88 modification 17. Seibel Flug-

#

18. Weser

Bremerhaven/ Einswarden

& possibly assembly.

Flying boat assembly & repair fcty.

19. Blohm l& Voss Seaplane Hamburg/FinHamburg/Fin­

assembly*

to assembly

shop, boiler house, stores, press shop,

-

16 Aug 16

zeugwerke Schkeuditz

damage.

RAF

Sth AF

machine shop & L+ other bldgs. com­ Machine shop, component shop & 10 other bldgs destroyed or damaged.

16 Aug Sth AF

work­ Destruction of 1 workshop or store. Damage to repair hangar, assembly shop & store, shop, 8c several unidentified bldg3*

4 Aug Sth AF

Damage to 2 workshops.

4 Aug Bth AF

Damage to large hangar, workshop.

kenwarder

20* Blohm 8c Voss Seaplane components. Hamburg/ Steinwarder

!l. Blohm & Voss A/C components !l. Hamburg/Kohlenschiffhafen Do Components !2» Norddeutsche Do !2»

+

Vesces

Aug

4-3

Moderate damage.

RAF

- Moderate

Aug

damage.

Bth AF

16/17

Dec 43-Mode rate damage.

RAF

Dornier Berlin

:3. Fildex Budapest/

2/3

Assembly of Ju 52, with components from Fildex factory in Budapest.

14.

Apr 15th AF

2 July

15th AF 9 Aug 15th AF

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- onen e

shop & 3 bldgs heavily damaged; other bldgs damaged, Slight damage.

- Damage

to 9 hangars

_,

several workshops, & other bldgs.

C5-52^8,AF

UlluLfiuuSijjiLU

m

-

x

Date of Target

Importance

Damage

Attack

AIRCRAFT D. G.A.F. Bombers, 24,

Transport

, Misc. (continued)

S.N.C.A.S.E. Assembly of FW 189 f s

Bordeaux/

Merignac

A/C

repair.

Severe damage.

24 July 43 Bth AF 5 Jan

-

27 -Mar Bth AF

-

15 June Bth AF

25. 3.N.C.A. &

Assembly of JU 52 's.

Moran c ,

Villacoublay

•

14 July 43 Bth AF 24 July 43 Bth AF 5 Feb Bth AF 20 May Bth AF

25 June

Bth .AF 26. S.N.G.A. Bourges

Se 204 assembly also components.

10 Apr 23 May Bth AF

4 June

Bth AF 25 June Bth AF

27. S.N.C.A. Nord Assembly of Me 108, Meulan-Les also repair. Mureaux

3 Sept 43 Bth AF 2/3 Mar RAF 30 May 9th AF

28. Deutsche Ver- Aircraft research. suchen Anstalt Berlin/T rept ow

m

29. Rechlin ?

30, Cannes

?

Research

Jan

hangars severely damaged; other bldgs damaged. Main assembly bldg, 2 large hangars & 5 workshops damaged, 6 hangars damaged.

3

Bth AF

­

Slight damage. damage.

Severe

4 hangars

-

, & other

bldgs damaged. Several bldgs destroyed or damaged. Damage to 6 hangars & several shops.

,

- 3 large

workshops, unidentified bldgs & hangar damaged. Assembly shop & small bldg destroyed, Damage to main workshop, 2 workshops, offices, stores & 3 unidentified bldgs*

-

-

Moderate damage. Main fcty bldgs partly or completely des­ troyed Power plant, main shops, machine shops & stores damaged or destroyed.

-

.

Moderate damage.

RAF

station.

A/C development.

25 Aug Bth AF

Damage to 4 hangars, workshop, power house, test beds, other bldgs

11/12

Slight damage*

Nov

RAF

.

43 C5-5268,AF

Importance

Target

Date of Attack

Damage

I. AIRCRAFT

#»

S. Italian Aircraft

Assembly of Re 1. Reggiane Reggio Emilia fighters & SM 79. Reggio Also assembly of aero-engines, &

30

Apr

15th AF

Milan/Bresso Milan/Bresso 3, Piaggio ••

Pontdera

4. Savoia Marchetti Marchetti

Fighter plane

7/8

shop. shop.

-

possibly repair.

2. Breda

- bO% of plant area devastated. - Damage

Damage to assembly

8 Jan 15th AF

Aug 13

assembly-formerly 35 Me 202/ mo,

RAF 30 April 15th AF

Formerly assembly of aircraft (Pi 108 & G55) and engines*

U Feb Feb

AF

15th AF

Repair & Maintenance.

- Slight damage. - Allmain bldgs

des­ des-

troyed or damaged.

- Severe

damage.

Severe damage.

Jan Jan

AF

15th AF

Fogligne

Fogligne

•

5. Fiat

Turin/Aeri-

Believed assembling fighter aircraft.

Apr

25 Apr 15th AF AF

3 assembly shops and

12 May 15th AF

Main workshop & other bldgs damaged.

other bldgs damaged.

talia

6. Fiat Marina di Marina Pisa

7* Macchi Macchi

.

Airframes for Fiat

A/C

30

Me 202 assembly

8. C.A.N.T. Monfalcone

Apr

15th AF

Varese Varese

l/2? May

Believed assembling ZlOO7 3 engine

A/C

seriously

damaged.

25 May 15th AF

Lamage. Severe diLamage.

H/15

components.

- Remainder

RAF Medit.

bomber.

9. Caproni Milan

Four-fifths destroyed

- Moderate

;

damage.

Feb A3 RAF

I. AIRCRAFT

F. Repair 1. Focke Wulf

Bremen/

\

#

17 Apr 43

A/C repair

Bth AF 8/9 Oct 43 RAF

Neuenland

- Severe - Slight

damage. damage.

C5-5268,/iF 58

Date of Target

#

Importance

Attack

Damage

8/9

Oct 43

Moderate.

9/10

Oct

IAIRCRAFT F. Repair (continued)

A/C repair,

2. Brinker Eis enwerke

forgings.

RAF

Hanover

A/C

3. Max Muller

repair.

RAF

Hanover

4. Ludwig Hans en Munster

A/C

repair

A/C repair.

5. Reparatur

Repair & modi­ fication of JU 88s 188s & 525.

Mockau"

•

,

Components & repair

7« Junkers

Leipzig/

of Junkers

planes.

27/28

Moderate.

Sept

- 75 - 95% devastated. - Damage to 3 unidenti­

20 Feb Bth AF 29 May Bth AF

fied bldgs.

3/4 Dec 13

RAF 20 Feb Bth AF

World Fair

8. Focke Wulf

Moderate.

RAF

Brunswick

Leipzig/

11 Nov 13 Bth AF

43

Fabrik

6, Junkers

43 Moderate.

­

- Very Severe. Minor.

Aircraft repair,

Jan RAF

Moderate

(& possibly assembly) of FW ,190

12 May Bth AF

Serious damage to all factory bldgs.

20 July Bth AF

Severe damage to re-» pair hangars & shops.

19 July Bth AF

Severe

& airpark.

U Aug Bth AF

Severe damage.

A/C

5 Apr 13

Severe.

Berlin/

damage.

Johannistal

9. C. Basser

Zwickau

Repair

& other

A/C.

10 , Junkers Erfurt

Repair of Junkers

11. Klemm

He 111 repair.

Stuttgart

12. G.A.F. Sta. Repair depot Anklam

A/F

13. Erla

•

Antwerp

14. SNDA dv

repair.

Nantes

damage to hangar workshops & small bldg.

Bth AF

A/C repair.

13 May 43 Bth AF

A/C repair.

4 July 43 Bth AF

Nord Meaulte

15. SNCA l'Oest

A/C.

16 Sept Bth AF

- 59 -

Moderate.

- Severe. 43 Moderate. C5-5268,^

,; Date of Target

Importance

Attack

IAIRCRAFT

#

F. Repair (continued)

16. Airdrome Le Bourget

17. Hispano

A/C repair

& storage.

14 July 43 Bth AF July Bth AF

16

43

15 Sept 4-3 Bth AF

Aero-engine repair.

Suiza Paris

31 Dec 43

Bth AF 18. Gaudron

Aero-engine repair.

3 Sept 43

Renault P?ris

Bth AF 15 Sept Bth AF

9/10

& modification of French aircraft.

19. S.N.CA.S.S.Repair

Marseilles/

43

RAF

Severe damage to shops > hangar, stores j offices & other bldgs.

10/11

Severe

Mar

Marignane

20. S.N.C • A.S. 3. Assembly of Bloch Chateauroux fighters used for

Mar RAF

trainers; also repair of transport planes; components for FW

\u2666

.

damage to han-'

gars, shops & other bldgs

189 ls.

21. Morane

Repair of De

10/11 Mar

520 *s.

Ossun

RAF

3 large fcty bldgs severely damaged; other bldgs damaged.

22. Usine

Repair of FW 190s.

27 Mar Bth AF

Liotard Tours

1/2

May

RAF

.

23 A

Junkers Le Mans

.

Repair of Junkers planes

24. S t A.B.C.A. Repair of Me k Brussels/ He aircraft. 3vere

•

25. Breugeut Toulouse

7 May 9th AF

Virtually devastated.

7 Sept 43 Bth AF 10 Apr Bth AF

Severe.

5/6

Aircraft repair & He components. Also prototypes.

1 of 3 medium work­ shop k 3 of 23 medium small bldgs severely damaged. 2 of 3 main bldgs destroyed & other damaged.

RAF

Mar

Hangar & research station heavily damaged other bldgsr damaged. Assembly shop, com­ ponents shop & other bldgs severely damaged or destroyed.

C5-5268,iiF 60

•

Target

Importance

Attack

Damage

5/6

Damage to 2 hangars, shops, & several small bldgs. Damage to components shop, machine shop, hangars & several small bldgs.

I. AIRCRAFT F. Repair (continued)

26, A.I.A. Toulouse

27,

Repair of He aircraft &. pro­ duction of com­ ponents

.

5.N.C.A.5.3. Repair of He 111 Toulouse and Ju 88 m Assembly of De 520 or He aircraft.

28. A.I,A, Clermont

Aircraft repair.

Ferrand

Mar

RAF

25 June Bth AF

5/6 1/2

Apr !!ay

\u2666

29. Junkers

Brussels/

des­

troyed; smaller bldge

destroyed - Damage to

or damaged. shops, store, boiler house & unidentified bldg #

RAF

25 June Bth AF

29/30 Apr RAF 30 Apr Bth AF

- All 3 main bldgs

•

Aero-engine

repair.

10 -kpr Bth AF

Repair of

18 Nov A3

2 very large hangars

collapsed; 9 medium hangars, main work­ shop offices & other bldgs damaged.

- Medium bldg

severely

damaged.

Vilvorde

30. BM

Oslo/

A/C &

DB aero-engines.

Kjeller

31. Factory Zagreb

A/F Probably

repair of fighter A/C.

32. Equipment

Field airpark & signals equipment depot.

Depot St. Cyr

33. G.A.F. Sta. Signals equipment

Brussels/

depot.

Bth AF Apr RAF

Severe,

28/29

Large workshop, store workshop & 3 small bldgs destroyed.

12 Apr

3

15th AF

hangars severely damaged; other bldgs damaged

10/11

Six long bldgs nearly destroyed, others danr

Apr

RAF

.

25 July

aged.

RAF

new damage.

27 July Bth AF

Slight damage.

7 July Bth AF

Damage to large storage bldg & 6 other bldgs

Additional

Vilvorde

•

1

34. G.A.F. Sta Kolleda

#

A/F

Equipment depot for Dornier & Hens chel planes. Also repair.

20 July Bth AF 2U Aug Bth AF

HBMMv^*

ft

.

Damage to 2 medium & 2 other bldgs.

#

1. Daimler Benz

Stuttgart/

601

Unterturkheim

2. Daimler-Benz

•

Berlin/

engines;

DB

603

Nov

A3- RAF

120/ mo.

Genshagen

3. Daimler Benz

26/27

Assembly of DB

aero- engines,

DB aero-engines also tanks.

6 Mar

Bth AF

DB 603 aero-engines *

Altenbauna

- Damage

2 work­ , to 5 sheds &

shops

offices

.

6 Aug

Bth AF

-:,

17 Jan 43 RAF 23 Aug 43 RAF

-

6

-Damage to 4- machine & assembly shops, forge, 5 workshops & 2 stores bldgs.

Aug

Bth AF

Kassel/

Large bldg &'medium shop destroyed. 3 workshops severely damaged. Damage to foundry, stores & other bldgs.

1/2 Mar

RAF

Marienf elde

4. Henschel

- Moderate.

Severe damage to 7 workshops & 3 test beds. Damage to 7 workshops

.

Slight.

Moderate

6 large workshops, smaller s hop, 2 test

19

Apr Bth AF

(

beds, & damaged.

5. Niedersachsische Motorenwerke

DB

aero-engines.

5 Aug Bth AF

Brunswick/

Querum

24

Aug Bth AF

6« Ostmark Motorenwerk Wiener Neudorf

•

7. Ostmark Motoren

Brno/Kurim 8, Ostmark Motoren Motoren

Brno/Lis en

DB 605 aero­ engines estimated 600 per month.

-

16 July 15th AF 26 July 15th AF

DB 603 aero-engine components for

25 Aug 15th AF

Wiener Neudorf.

DB 603 engine components for Wiener

Neudorf

.

,

3

bldgs

- Damage -

to 6 large workshops, test beds, stores & unidentified bldgs All large workshops

.

damaged, many small bldgs destroyed.

- Moderate

damage to machine & other shops. Moderate to heavy damage. Damage

to all bldgs, including shops, power

house, foundry, & stores f 25 Aug 15th AF

Considerable damage to all parts of the

plant ,

\u25a0i^Hi -62 -F\y ;' J

C5-52681AF

j| f| \\

' l

-V?

I I

Target

Importance

Attack

Damage

3/4

Machine shops damaged.

I. AIRCRAFT

f*.

G, Aero-Engines

(continued)

.

9. Manfred Weiss DB aero-engines Budapest

10. BW

components

-

Ilunich/Ober- BMW. aero-engines

&.

Apr

Lied. AF

.

9/10

wiessenfeld Also experimental work, repair & component manufacture*

Mar

RAF

43-

9,13 June 15th AF

11. 13. 16 July Bth AF

•

BMW aero-engine

13 June 15th AF 11,12,13

repair.

Slight. Damage to main mach­ ine shop, several shops, foundry, storer test blocks & other, bldgs. 25 bldgs now have been destroyed or damaged. Damage to machine shops, store. Damage to machine shop & 2 bldgs. Several bldgs hit.

July

12 Sept 15th AF

Damage to large work-^ shop & other bldgs. Slight damage. Damage to large bldg & sub-assembly shop.

16/17

Slight damage*­

31 July Bth AF

19

BMvT aero-engine assembly & repair.

Dec 43 RAF 21 June Bth AF

BW and Bramo engines , BMW aero-engines

July

Severe damage to main ; workshop bldgs, 4 smaller workshops, test beds, stores & 3 small bldgs. Moderate damage.

Jan RAF

.

11 Sept Bth AF

Stockhausen

Severe damage to most of important bldgs, including 4 machine shops.

•

10/11

Assembly of BIT 801 aero engines. Also repair.

15. B.M.W. Clermont F errand

Assembly &/or repair of BMW aero­ engines. Repair of Junkers aircraft.

16. Gnome & Rhone Le Mans

Mar

shops, stores &

other bldgs.

RAF

29 June 43 Bth AF

'

13/14 RAF

Severe damage to 2

Mar

- Moderate

damage.

Medium bldg destroyed 8c 1 damaged.

C5-5268,AF 63

j

#

other bldgs, assembly & airframe factories.

Bth AF

19. A.T.A.G, Leipzig/

Jumo aero-engines. '

19/20

Feb Severe damage to major bldgs.

RAF

Gross zschocher

•

20. Mitteldeutsche Leipzig/Taucha

21.

pommerische

Jumo aero-engines.

Motorenbau

Stettin/

- Damage

-

28 May Bth AF 7 July Bth AF

22. Junkers

23. Junkers Kothen

24. A.T.A.G. Leipzig/ Leutsch

25. Matford Strasbourg

to test beds & workshops. Moderate damage.

- All 5 large

11 Apr Bth AF

machine

shops very severely damaged, stores &

Arnimswalde Magdeburg

•

Jumo aero-engines & jet A/C units.

-

other bldgs damaged.

Damage to several Jumo aero-engines. 29 June Pr opellors, fuel pumps. Bth AF •. bldgs. Damage to stores & 5 Aug Bth AF several shops. 16 Aug Moderate damage. Bth AF Damage to 5 shops. 28 Sept Bth AF

Jumo 211/213 aero-engines.

Jumo aero-engine components

.

Repair of Jumo 211 aero-engines. Also components.

IHHBI

20 July Bth AF 16 Aug Bth AF

7 July

- Severe - bldgs. Damage

damage

to 14­ Other damage. to 3 workshops,

& other bldgs.

- Moderate

damage.

Bth AF

27

May

-

Very severe

damage

Bth AF

C5-5263,AF

Date of

#

Damage

Attack

Importance

Target

IAIRCRAFT G. Aero-Sngines

(continued)

Yfoippy «

Stuttgart/

-

Bth AF Bth

\

27 • A. Hirth Motoren

- Damage

Believed Jumo aero27 May engine repair & Bth AF components production. Aug 18 Aug

26, Factory

Low power aeroengines; possibly A/C components*

- Damage

to warehouse k 2 fcty type bldgs.

10 Sept 10 •Bth AF •Bth

Zuffenhausen

•

28. Argus Berlin 29. Gnome & 29. Rhone Limoges

Argus aero-engines

16/17

- Slight

8/9

- Very heavy

43

Assembly of 14N &. 14R engines.

to 2 large workshops; 3 small bldgs destroyed* work­ Destruction of workshop, damage to 3 workshops & 8 unun­ bldgs. identified

Dec RAF

-

Feb

RAF

23/24

June

RAF RAF

damage.

damage.

2 stores bldgs & 6 machine shops desdes­

troyed.

30. Fiat 30.

Turin/

Aero & auto engines.

Lingotto

31. Alfa Romeo 31.

Aero-engines.

Milan

32. Isotta 32.

12/13

July July A3 RAF A3 29 Mar 15th AF

\u25a07/8

Aug

7/8

Aug 43

- Moderate

damage.

5 large bldgs severely damaged., Severe damage.

43

RAF

Aero-engines,

Fraschini

Severe

damage. '

RAF

Milan

IAIRCRAFT H# Minor Aircraft Components

1. R. Bosch Stuttgart/ Feuerbach Feuerbach

Fuel pumps, spark plugs, magnetos, components for

bombs, etc.

V

- Foundry,

20/21

1/2

Feb Mar f

RAF

12/13

Sept

20/21

Feb

-

workshops, spark plug fcty, machine shop & othe: bldgs destroyed or severely damaged. Slight damage.

RAF

O

2. Elektron Stuttgart Stuttgart

Primarily aircraft landing gear.

70 % of

building area destroyed.

RAF

t

3. Mahle K.G. Stuttgart Stuttgart

Aero-engine pistons, undercarriages

,

brakes, etc t

1/2

Mar

Moderate damage,

RAF

C5-5268,, -P

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H

mtvi%st,

\u25a0*

-

»':

L#

«

14/15

7. Alfred Knecht

Stuttgart

.

Aero-engine crank­ shafts

\u25a08. Alfred Teves Frankfurt

»

Apr

43 RAF

20 Mar Bth AF

3 machine shops, workshops/ storage, & 20 bldgs destroyed or severely damaged.

12/13

Slight damage;

Sept

RAP

9* Fischer

*N

•/ >­

Carburetors

for aero-engines +

Frankfurt

10 •. Max Gerner

A/C components..

Frankfurt

Prop ellors

11..V.D.M.

Frankfurt/

29 Jan Bth AF

Moderate damage

12/13

Sept

Very severe damage.

43

Moderate.

#

RAF

.

4

Oct

Bth AF

Hedderheim

l2*.Luftschiffbau Zeppelin Friedr ichsha fen

-

Light metal castings 20/21 June sections, etc; radar 43 RAF equipment. Also ex­ 7/8 Oct A3 perimental work. RAF

27/28

Moderate.

Apr

Slight.

RAF

Severe damage to

machine shops,

foundry, & other bldgs; hangar, & other bldgs damaged* Damage to hangar & 2 bldgs „ Widespread damage*

16/18

Mar Bth AF 20 July 15th AF

•

13. Hackenfelde

Berlin/

Instruments aircraft ,

for

Moderate damage.

Jan RAF

Spandau

14, Siemens App­ aratebau

Berlin/

Lichtenberg

Instruments for Aircraft.

1/2

RAF' Jan RAF

Mar U3

­

Slight.

Moderate.

C 5-5268, AF

J

Importance

Target

#

Date of Attack

Damage

Jan

Almost complete

RAF

destruction.

21 June Bth AF

Severe

1.-.AIRCRAFT

.

H Minor

Aircraft

Components

(continued)

.

Aircraft components

15 «., Neve Kuhler

#

Berlin/

Templehof

16. Deutsche

Messing Werke

A/C

components

,

damage.

Berlin *

17. Pallas Apparate

Aero-engine components , .

16/17

Dec

43

Moderate,

RAF

A/C

16/17

Dec

43

Slight,

16/17

Dec 43 Slight.

Berlin 18. Rotadisk Berlin

19 * Deutsche Industrie Berlin

20. Schmitter Augsburg

#

21.. Schelte & Gieseke

components.

RAF

A/C

components.

RAF

25/26' Feb

Moderate..

19/20

Almost complete

destruction.

Components for aircraft ,

RAF

Probably aircraft components.

RAF

Light metal castings for A/C*

7 July Bth AF

Heavy damage*

3/4 Dec 43

Slight.

18 Mar Bth AF

Moderate damage*

19 July 15th AF 31 July Bth AF

Damage to press shop*

Feb

Leipzig

22. Metallguss Leipzig

23. Karl Krause Leipzig

24. F. Deckel Munich

A/C

components.

RAF

A/C fuel pumps & precision equipment.

Light metal 25.. Bayerisches Leichtmetall- castings for \

werk Munich

A/C.

i

22 Sept 15th AF

•

-

26* Waltherswerke Kiel

Components

for jet

24

Aug Bth AF

A/C

12 Sept Bth AF 27. Armament Fcty Flying bomb

ViTeimar/

Buchenwald

24 Aug Bth AF

components &

armaments

,

Damage to 4 bldgs & '

5 machine shop, press

shop* Moderate damage.

.

Damage to 6 unidentip­ ;

fied bldgs & small

warehouse,

- Damage to main bldg &

2 unidentified bldgs* .

Severe damage to every major bldg*.

C5-5268,AF 67

%M iW

w*

His B 'li%$ '^4>

»« <^

'"3

"*^

Date of

#

*

Target

Importance

Damage

Attack

AIRCRAFT

H. Minor Aircraft Components

(continued)

.

22/23

Alloys & A/C components

28. Leichtmetall Hanover

Sept*

- Moderate. - Moderate.

43

8/9 Oct'43

RAF

A/C

29. Norddeutsche

Leichtmetall

Hamburg

30. Aluminum Werke Nurenburg

31. 5.1.G.!.1,A« Lyons

components.

A/C (& M/T) components.

Components for Rhone aero-engines

2/3

Aug

8/9

Mar 43

RAF

Moderate,

13

Slight

RAF

.

29/30

- Severe

Mar

RAF

-

25

•

M?y 15th AF

32. Farina

A/C

components

Turin

33. SAFSA Milan

12/13

damage to 2 large workshops; boiler house & numerous other bldgs Moderate damage.

July A3 Moderate.

RAF

A/C

instruments.

7/8

Aug 43

Moderate.

RAF

•

H^^^^^fl

Target

(

Importance

X~--'

'\u2666

Tl> iHTI-FRTCTION BEARINGS 1. Fugel-Fischer Schweinfurt

19.7^

of Axis preattack supply.

17 Aug 'U3> Bth AF Ik Oct fU3 Bth AF

2k Fe'b Bth AF

13

Apr

Bth AF

•Severe damage to 3 machine shops, foundry & dispatch center. Other bldgs damaged •Large .machine shop damaged; 2 large machine shops twothirds destroyed; small sheds. & shops

.

destroyed.

•

2. V, K. P. Werk I 18.7/£ of Axis preSchweinfurt attack supply. ) (with Werk II

19, 21 July Bth \F

Destruction of heat treatment shop & medium bldg. Damage to large machine shop, heat treatment shop, medium bldg, forge.

17 Aug'U3

Slight

Bth AF

111 Oct'U3

Moderate

17 &ug'U3

Severe damage to 3 machine shops c & other bldgs Moderate

Bth AF 2k Feb Bth hF

3. V. K. F. II Schweinfurt

sup­ Kith Werk I plied 18. 7^' of preattack bearing supply.

Bth AF

Ik Oct'l+3 2k Feb

Bth *F 13 Apr Bth AF

19,21 July Bth AF

U. V. K. F. Stuttgart

5.1^

of Axis pre attack supply /

•

5. y.

k. f.

Berlin/ferkner

k*~b%

of Axis pre

attack supply.

r

.

6 Sept'U3 Bth AF 25 Feb Bth AF 18 Jul-3 Aug RAF 8 Mar Bth AF

Severe

. .

\u25a0Several bldgs damaged Assembly or machine shop severely damaged Damage to stores & packing department, 3 machine shops ;& unidentified bldgs.

Slight Damage to 3 large & 1 medium, bldg. Moderate damage

.

3 of k

large machine shops apparently gutted. Other small bldgs des­ troyed

.

# Assembly-testing­ packing bldgs, cage shop & officer nearly destroyed; stores and dis-

8. Deutsdie Kugellager Ball-bearings.

Leipzig/fehrenberg

•

21 July Bth AF

Ball-bearing cages,

2k Feb Bth AF

C.A.M. Paris /Bois Colombe

Bearings*

15 Sept I+3 31 Bee '143

S.R.O,

Output l.?fo of pre- attack supply.

9/10

Needle bearings

10/ll

10. Deutsche Star

.

Schweinfurt 11.

12.

Annecy

13. Nadella

R.I.V.

Turin

Machine shops & 2 unidentified bldgs damaged.

Slight

\u26 6

•»

Plant nearly de­ vastated.

May

RAF

All but 1 bldg destroyed or damaged.

Mar f&F

2.6%

of Axis preattack supply.

8 Nov

»l+3

Slight

15th AF

1 Dec 'I+3 15th iP­ 29 Mar. 15th AF

.V. 15. R I f

Villar Perosa

+

16. R.I.V.

Severe

Bth .KF

La Ricameri©

ll+.

Heavy damage to 2 large machine shops, inspection & packing shed & 2 unidentified bldgs

Anti-friction bearings. Plant dispersed from Schweinfurt*

9. Kugelfischer Ebelsbach

Former output 1.3$ of Axis pre-attack supply of bearings. Ball-bearings •

Orbessano

10 Nov

15th AF

Severe Damage to ring grinding dept.

»l+3

Slight

3 Jan. 15th AF

Severe

21+

1 of 2 large work­ shops destroyed.

July

15th AF

C5-5268,itf

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l*K :v>\u25a0'.

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yn

,^-jl

111. OIL

#

A, Synthetic Plants 1• Ammoni akwerke

Merseburg/ Leuna

12 May 28 May

Synthetic oil

(Bergius)-Capa-

city

600,000

tons/

Bth AF

year, Also nitrogen & chemicals.

7 July Bth AF

•

20 July Bth AF

28,29 July Bth AF 21; Aug Bth AF 11,13 Sept Bth AF

27 Sept

Severe damage. Damage to preheaters, injector bldg. paste prepep­ ation bldg. carbon­ ising ovens. Fer­ tilizer sectiondamage to bldg, boiler house, gas­ holder. Synthetic ammonia plant* Work-shop damaged, Methanol plant damaged. Damage to boiler house, ammonia plant, offices. Damage to contact oven house, & numerous other bldgs. Also gas­ holders, pumto house. Widespread

damage.

Moderate widespread damage. Severe damage.

Moderate damages.

Bth AF 2, S,D. Treib-

stof fwerke Brux

Synthetic oil (Bergius) Capacity 750,000 year.

tons/

12 May Bth £F

21 July

15th AF

2k Aug Bth AF

»

11,23 Sept Bth i.P

- 71­

Damage to blower house, lf. gasholders, power plant & in­ jector house, & gas generators. Severe damage' to boiler houses, in­ jector house, com­ pressor house, other bldgs,cool­ ing tower. Damage to injector houses, power sta­ tion & 2 tanks. Considerable damage.

C5-5268,AF

ISiiliytti^^^&^"

f

Target

m

. 3.

111

Attack

Importance

Damage

,

OIL (continued)

A. Synthetic Plants Bydrierwerke Politz #

-

29

Synthetic oil*(Bergius) Capacity 600,000 year.

May Bth AF

tons/

20 June ath AF

•

25

Aug Bth AF

!(.. Braunkohle Ben z in Bohlen

Synthetic oil-

12 May

(Bergius) Capa-

29 June

city 350,000 year,.;

tons/

Bth AF

7 July

16

Aug Bth AF

Braunkohle Ben z in 2eitz

circulathr. house, 2

workshops, boilers, & dust extraction plant. Minor damage to compres­ sor house, gas washing' bldg & 10 bldgs, 6 tanks & gasholders destroyed. Damage to gas generat­ ing Dlants, paste preparation plant &\u25a0 injector houses, gas washing house,compres­ sor house & iso-o-ctane plant. More than 20 tanks destroyed or damaged. Damage to water gas plant, boilers, in­ jector & circulator house, & miscellaneous bldgs.

Considerable damage.. Damage to gas generat­ ing plant, 5 gasholder^, h tanks, distillation units, & several un­ identified bldgs. Damage to boiler house., generator house, liquid air plant, & blower house. Damage to coal plant & gasholder, tanks, boiler house, gener­ ator hall,& cooling towers. \u25a0

Bth AF

5.

Damage to injector

12,28 May­ Damage to gas purifi­ Bth 4F cation plants, main compressor bldg,boiler house, gas generating; plant, injector houses, storage & feed stock tanks, & gasholde lT, Damage to boiler house 16 Aug Bth AF gas treatment plant, 3 tanks & unidentified

Synthetic oil-

(Bergius)-Capacity J460,000 tons/year.

#

bldgs,.

C5-5268,AF

72

111. OIL (continued)

#

A # Synthetic Plants

6. Braunkohle

Synthetic oil-

Ben zin

(Bergius)-Capa-*

Rothensee

tons/year.

Magdeburg/

28 May Bth AF

Damage to compressor ho use, gas works, paste preparation plant, liquid air plant & in­ jector house, workshop, & 3 bldgs. Damage to 5 gasholders, stripping column com­

city 250,000

20 June Bth AF

pressor house, injector house, H/>> removal plant, conversion columns , tar storage tanks , tanks , pump house distillation plants, tube still,work­ shops & stores* Severe damage to. 3 work­ shops, 3 tanks, gasholder, stores bldg, gas puri­ fication plant,distil­ lation plant & other bldgs. Damage to compressor house, gas purification plant, hydro gen at ion stalls, injector house, distillation plant, gas­ holder, 5 small bldgs ,& l\. tanks

,

16 Aug Bth AF

•

11,12 Sept Bth AF

.

7.

Gelsenkirchen Bergwerks

Synthetic oil-

(Bergius)-Capa­

12/13

June

Severe damage to in­ jection houses, gas generating plants, hydro genati on stalls, paste preparation plant; damage to 13 cooling towers, 3 large tanks, h cooling towers, 6 medium tanks, gasholders, unidentified bldgs, compressor houses, main boiler hall,& coal handling plant. Damage to boiler house, 3 workshops, injector house, gasholder,distil­ lation plant & other bldgs. Moderate damage,

•

Moderate

damage

.

C5-5268,AF

*3ii'i<&

B

'

. Target

'

.

\u25a0

Date of

Importance

Attack

Synthetic oil (Bergius) .Capa
18 /l9 July 18/l9

Damage

111. OIL (continued)

#

A. Synthetic Plants

8. Hydrierwerke Scholven

Gelsenkirchen/ Buer

tons/^rear

-

RAF

ing injector & compressor houses. Severe damage

26

Aug Bth AF

Major damage to compressor house, 2injector houses & blower house.

12 Sept KAF I.G.Farben

9. Blechhammer (North)

Synthetic oil

(3ergius),Capacity >50,000

AF

tons /year. Aug 15th AF

27

•

13 Sept 15th AF 10. l.G.Farben Blechhammer

{South])

Synthetic oil

( Bergius ).Cp.pacity 125,000

tons/^rear

7 July 15th AF 7 Aug 15th AF 22 Aug 15th AF 27 Aug 15th AF

13 Sept 15th AF ,G. Farben 11. I

Oswiecim

Synthetic oil

(Bergius).Capacity 200,000 Synthetic rubber & light metals.

20 Aug

15th AF

tons/year.

•

Damage to boiler house, cooling towers, washing plant jcompressor house ,&

7 Aug

15th

13 Sept

15th AF

Widespread damage includ­

many unidentified "buildings. 3 small tanks destroyed & 3 damaged. Damage to boiler house, blower house, 3 gasholders,

briquetting plant, coal

preparation, l tank,

centrafuge house, 3 un­ identified bldgs.

Minor damage.

-

- Minor

-

scattered

damage.

Damage to 2 gasholders, workshops ,storage sheds ,& miscellaneous bldgs. Damage to boiler house, <3b 3 unidentified bldgs. Damage to compressor houses boiler house, generator hall, & I 4 gasholders. Minor damage.

/\u25a0t oil plant, damage to several bldgs ,stills, possible Methonol Synthesis bldg, gasholder, & other bldgs. At rubber plant damage to polymerisation & butadiene olants &

several unidentified bldgs.

Also heavy dsmage to

aluminum reduction plant

& stores.

Considerable stamage.

UnuLAi?C':/ i£iJ >

Target

.

Importance

ate of Attack

,

Damage

\u0084.,.,......,,.

111. OIL (continued)

#

A. Synthetic -Plants 12 i Union Rhetoische Synthetic oil , (3ergius). Capa^ Wesseling city 200,000

18/l9

July

Synthetic oil

29/30 RAF

Sept

-

BAF

tons/^rear.

13.

Krupp Wanne Eickel

(Sergius) .Capacity 130,000 tons/year.

25/^6

i;3-Moderate

f

- Minor

-

July

RAF

5/6 RAF

Aug

-

12 Sept RAF

ll|.. Wintershall

•

Lutzkendorf

Ruhro l

15 • Bottrop/ Welheim

Bth AF

tons/year.

Bth AF

Synthetic oil ( Bergius). Capacity 100,000

20/21 July

tons/year. 16. I.G. Farben Ludwigshafen

f

17. Braunkohle Benzin Run land/

Schwartzheide

/

­

7 July

Synthetic oil (Bergius) .Capacity 120,000

Synthetic oil ( Bergius )Cap acity 90,000 tons /year. Synthetic oil-

(Fischer-

Tropsch) Capac ity 350,000 tons /year.

13 Sept

-

3,5,& 9

«IS_

oth s^P Air

May 12 .May Tropsch) 28 May (Fischer capacity I^o,ooo Bth AF

tons /year.

Severely damaged.

Moderate damage.

- Damage

28 May Bth AF

*>

-

Aug Bth AF

Lutzkendorf

Damage to contact oven houses Severe damage to compressor house ;damage to oil storage, boiler house & unidentified bldgs.

Distillation columns & administration-type bldg damaged.

Sept. Bth AF

21+

#

damage.

RAF

fith AF

Synthetic oil-

damage,

Several bldgs damaged.

21 June

18. Wintershall

Considerable damage to many parts of the plant, including water gas plant, gasholders, compressor plant ,& tanks »

t

\u25a0*

-.

to 2 water gas plants ,contact oven houses. boiler house, gas purification plants ,blower house l± gasholders ,& stores. Damage to 2 gasholders,dis­ tillation plant ,2 oven houses, offices, gas washing, blower house, & unidenti­ fied bldgs. Destructionof large gasholder, 1 large & 2 small tanks, 1 bldg. Minor Moderate damage. Heft exchangers bldg nearly destroyed ; 2oven houses damaged; 10 small & 2 large tanks destroyed*

r II?% f*s '

% KJR26S^AF

Target

Importance

Attack

Synthetic oil

23/214.

Damage

111. OIL (continued)

#

A. Synthetic Plants

19 « Hoes ch-Ben zin

(Fischer- Tropsch) RAF

Dortmund

Capacity 300,000 tons/year.

May' lt3

12 Sept. RAF

- Moderate Damage to gasholder & sev­ eral important bldgs. .1

Rheinpreussen

l/2July 190,000 11/l2

Damage to pump house, & other bldgs. Considerable major damage to important installations.

Synthetic oil

20. Gewerkschaft

Meerbeck/komberg

(Fischer Tropsch) RAF

Capacity tons /year.

20/21

July RAF 27 Aug RAF

V

.

21

•

Damage to contact oven house, water gas plant,dis­

tillation plant, 3 tanks, cooling tower, 2 small unidentified bldgs. Ruhr ben zin Sterirade

Synthetic oil

16/l7

June

Damage to 2 tpnks, small bldg, contact oven house,

gas purification plant,

compressor house, ammonia

synthesis, fertilizer silo>, research bldg, catalyst plant & 3 towers.

(Fischer Tropsch) RAF Capacity 125,000 tons /year. nit rates.

Also

- Damage

18 /l9 Aug RAF 1

Sept RAF

30

Schaffgotsch Ben zin Synt Synthetic oil

22. Odertal

7 July

(Fischer Tropsch) 15th AF

Capacity 110,000 tons/year.

22 Aug

15th AF 13 Sept 15th AF Essener

23. Kamen

Steinkohle Synthetic oil Syn

11 Sept

(Fischer Tropsch) RAF Capacity 100,000 tons /year.

• 21+.

Synthetic oil Klockner 11 Sept (Fischer Tropsch) RAF Winterschall Castrop Rauxel Capacity 100,000 tons/year.

­

to contact oven house, blower house, gas­ holder, sulphur installa­ tion & gasholder. Minor

Considerable damage, although not to main objectives. Damage to contact oven house, pump house, blower house, 3 gasholders, cracking plant. Minor damage.

Severe damage to contact oven house, water gas plant, gas purification plant; coking plant^power station & boiler house; cooling towers, 3 large gasholders. oil storage tanks. Moderate

damage.

111. OIL (continued)

#

B. Refineries

25. Astra

Roman a Ploesti

1 Aug TU3 Oil refineryCapacity 1,750,000. .9th. AF ' tons/year. 21+ April 5 May 18 May 15th AF

31 May 15th AF 11 June

Severe

Distillation & cracking plants damaged ; 23 large &

destroyed;

tasks medium several sheds destroyed or

damaged.

Large storage tank damaged,

2 tanks damaged.

1 tank destroyed,! damaged

15th AF 28 July

Damage

to distillation

unit, cooling tower &

tanks

17, 18- Aug -Destruction of 3 large tanks, 2 cooling towers, 15th AF 1 large bldg.Boiler house

15th AF

\u2666

damaged

2£. Steau

Romana Campin a

Oil refineryCapacity

1,500,000 year.

tons/

1 Aug 'I+3 9th AF 5/6 May Medit.AF

6

May

15th AF

11 June 15th AF 10 Aug 15th AF 18 Aug

15th AF

27. Concordia Ploesti

•

Vega Oil refinerycapacity 1,1+50,000

tons/year.

21+ April 5 March 15th AF 31 May 15th AF

11 June 15th AF

9 July 15th AF

.

Very severe large oil storage tanks destroyed. Distillation plants seriously damaged. Dubbs cracking plant damaged ,McKee & Vacuum Dis. Plants slightly

damage, other bldgs

damagedj3A- of oil tanks damaged.

13

2 tanks damaged. Damage to 2 distillation units ,stills ,storehouses, laboratory, workshops; 6 process tanks destroyed. Damage to boiler house & 3 tanks ;9 tanks destroyed.

Severe damage to cracking

plant, 23 tanks destrojsd.

Processing plants destroy­ ed & distilling units,

cracking plant,stabilisa­ tion plant & asphalt

plant hit.

1 tank gutted.

Very considerable damage to all parts of the refinery.

H^^lJH

C5-5268,AF

•

B. Refineries

31 May 15th AF

28. Romano Ameri- Oil refinery cana Refinery Ploesti

Capacity

1,170,000 tons /year.

10 June

*

15th AF

15 July 15th AF 22 July

15th AF

26/27

•

July

RAF Med. 10 Aug 15th AF 18 Aug 15th AF

29. Phoenix Orion Oil refinery Ploesti

30. Standard Ploesti

Capacity

730,000 tons/ year. Active prior to attack.

-

Oil re finery Capacity 550,000 tons/year.

1 Aug '2+3 9th AF 2k April 5 May 15th AF

5

May

15th AF 28 July 15th AF

31. Creditul Minier Oil refinery­

•

Bra zi

Capacity

535,000 year.

tons/

1 medium oil tank destroy­ ed; 2 tanks severely damaged; 2 minor damage. Stabilization & distillat­ ion bldgs damaged. 2 tanks damaged. Storage Damage tank destroyed. to process tanks; also small process tanks. Boiler house roof damaged. Small shed damaged. Stabilization plant damag­ ed. Tanks destroyed. 2 tanks burned out.

.

Considerable damage's to tanks Damage to 2 bldg,boiler

house process tanks ; 3

bldgs destroyed.

Severe damage.

Moderate Distillation plant & unidentified installations damaged; numerous medium & small tanks destroyed. Destruction of boiler & power houses. Damage to Dubbs cracking plant, boiler house & distillation plant, 9 tanks destroyed. Slight fresh damage, .

17 Aug 15th AF

Severe damage to boiler house, power house, bldg of Lube Oil Plant.

1 Aug'i|.3 9th AF 15 July 15th AF 31 July 15th AF

Very severe. Slight damage.

Tank damaged.

•

-

Aquila Ploesti

33 • Phoenix Unirea Ploesti

Oil refinery Capacity 535,000 tons /year. In­ active since Aug. 19Ub attack.

Oil refinery Capacity h)jp sOOOs 000 tons /year.

5 May 15th AF 11 June 15th AF

31 lay

15th AF

-14.

storage tanks burned out, others damaged Sheds damaged

-

. .

Four large oil tanks burned out, pos­ sibly another gl argeg large destroyed

- l/ 3 1

sheds;

15 July 15th AF

•

28 July

15th AF 17 Aug 15th 4F

3U»

Xenia Ploesti

Oil refinery

Capacity 290,000

tons/year.

5

May

15th AF

9 July 15th AF 35* Petrolmina ( tumina ) Ploesti

36. Redeventa Ploesti

37. Prahova

•

Bucharest

38. Vacuum

(Photo gen)

Brasov

Oil refinery Capacity 150,000 tons /year

5

May

.

-2 tanks destroyed, distillation plant inactive. -6 tanks destroyed ; unidentified bldgs damaged

.

Sheds destroyed or

July 15th AF

Damage to Shell stills, pump house

Oil refinery Capacity 200,000 tons /year ,

U April

tons/year.

-Severe damage to boiler house & 2 small bldgs

damaged. 12 tanks destroyed. Distilla­ tion unit damaged.

15

Oil refinery Capacity 35,000

.

15th AF

Oil refinery Capacity 100,000 tons /year

.

roof damage to pre­ vious damaged bldg. 3 other sheds damaged damage to Dubbs cracking plant. -2 unidentified bldgs damaged -3 tanks destroyed.

J

& several unidenti­ fied bl-dgs.

15th AF 3 July 15th AF

-Moderate

Damage to large unidentified bldg & small shed. Des­ truction of large oil tank.

15th AF

-Damage to tanks , probable distilla­

k

-R^fitierV,

16 April

July

15th w n

tion unit, storage bldgs, destroyed

C5-5268',AF

•

\u2666 39. Shell Koolaz Oil re fine ryBudapest/Czepel Capacity 175,000 year.

tons/

114.

Damage

to pumphouse, house, treating boiler plant & asphalt plant. J4I tanks destroyed & 5

June

15th /\F

damaged. Laboratory destroyed. Damage to Grease bldg, Butane storage, 6 sheds. Numerous tanks & instal­ lations damaged.

2 July

lk

July

15th AF 17 Sept 15th AF Oil refineryCapacity 60,000 tons /year.

•

Heavy damage.

3 April 15th AF

114. July Bth AF 17 Sept

Serious damage ;several bldgs gutted & others in­ cluding distillation plant, damaged. 2 tanks destroyed.. Some damage to bldgs • Heavy damage.

114.

Damage to storage tanks

15th AF

Oil refineryCapacity 60,000 tons /year.

June 15th AF

July 15th AF

for finished products, lubricating oil plant, boiler houses & probable^ distillation unit. Plant made completely inoperative.

16 June

Damage

Ik Oil refineryCapacity 150,000

tons/year.

to tanks ,cracking

unit, treatment unit,paraf­ fin plant, boiler house,

distillation plants,

centrifuges, L|2 storage

tanks destroyed & 5

damaged;

15th AF

20 Sept

Severe

damage.

Damage

to boiler house.

15th AF JL(3 • So cony Vacuum Almasfuzito

•

1414..

Hydro ben zen Petfurdo

114.

Oil refineryCapacity 125,000 tons /year

June 15th AF 9 Aug 15th AF

Oil refinery Capacity 100,000 tons /year.

ill June

.

15th

AF

Severe damage to stills, boiler ho use, wax works, oil storage tanks, un­ identified bldgs \u26 6

- Damage

to cooling tower. power plant, 2 gr\s genera- \ tioft plant sheds,& com­ pressor bldgs, *•

*L\ t9j&s^ de^|^o^e%.

7^ small taril|s' daj^royed. Nitrogen plant damaged*

D5-5268,AF

(

#

.

111

Target

Drmaf &

Importance

Attack

Oil refinery Capacity 100,000 tons /year.

lh June

'•*

*\u25a0>->

-.

s & M~_ I

OIL (continued)

B. Refineries

.

IS

Magyar rs ozony

Damage

to distillation units, pump house, boiler house, transformer house, unidentified bldgs, oil "storage tanks. Damage to small shed, 3 tanks & unidentified bldgs Damage to distillation unit, boiler house, pump house, & other bldgs. 8 tanks damaged or wrecked.

AF

15th

4

21 Aug

15th AF

28 Aug 15th AF

1j.6. Shell-Caprag

I+7.

•

(Sisak)

Oil refinery Capacity 100,000 tons/year.

Standard Vacuum Brod

Oil refinery Capacity 100,000 tons /year.

lU June

19 tanks & 8

bldgs or sheds destroyed. Damage to 14. sheds & boiler house.

15th AF

10/ll RAF

8/9

damaged & If.

destroyed. 3 bldgs damaged

& 12 destroyed.

Damage to 9 small mcd process tanks, power plaob^ Destruction of misc. bldgs, 2 medium & 8 small tanks, 6 tanks destroyed.

IU/15

Further severe

June

3 tanks

1 July

15th

AF

July Mcd R^F

damage.

July Mcd RA.F

Unidentified bldg damaged.

9" Aug 15th-.iF ijS.Sumadisk Smederovo

Oil refinery Capacity Ixo,ooo toas/year.

11 June 15th AF

16/17 15th

poll k9* I

•

Lispe Budafapuszta

Oil field installations including gasoline plant ,pumps ,etc

.

51. Winters cha ll Oil refinery Vienna

/Lobau

Capacity 200,000

tons/year.

July

AF

June 15th AF

Capacity 20,000 tons/year.

50.

2 tanks destroyed, 2 bldgs damaged. Boiler house heavily dam­ aged. 3 tanks wrecked.

114.

Oil refinery

Osijek

-

Ten tanks destroyed or damaged. Stabilization plant & distillation' units damaged.

July

30

Gasoline plant seriously damaged. Moderate damage

to workshops & tank area.

Bth A'p

16 June 15th AF

' 26f Jjj3^} t

15thf4AF', LfiAF^,

1 earth-walled storage tank burnt out; foundat­ ions for new i?a^Jj|r ||i^

­

­-

1) y, f^ '^

disturbed. Damage to puinphot receiving tanks, receiving tanks ,**storage *tanks , storage sheds. Destruction of 2 storage tanks •

05-5268^

.

*>

.$

#

ni. oil B. Refineries

51 • Winters chall (continued)

22 Aug 15th AF 10 Sept

Vienna/Lobau

15th 52. Shell

Vienna/

Floridsdorf

Small unidentified bldgs damaged or destroyed. Damage to pump house, 2 tanks & other equipment.

If

16 June 15th AF 26 June 15th AF

Oil refinery Capacity 100,000

tons/year.

Numerous sheds & several tanks damaged or destroyed. Damage to 2 bldgs, 2 boiler houses, paraffin

bldg, workshop, filter press, cooling plant, lube oil storage & tanks. Considerable damage to stills ,boiler house & other installations.

8 July 15th AF

53* So cony

•

Vacuum

Vienna/fcagran

Oil refinery Capacity 60,000

16 June

Damage to rectification plant, boiler, house, engine & pumphouse, Destruction of 3 stills, pumphouse,clean­

15th AF

tons/year

ing plant, asphalt plant, 7 tanks damaged.

SU. NovaOcl

Vienna/

S chwe chat

Oil refinery Capacity 50,000 tons /year.

16 June 15th AF

tanks destroyed.Damage to pumphouse, tanks, boiler house stabilization plant, & other "&>ldgs. Damage to distillation

unit tanks, 2 pumphouse

storage sheds.

Heavy damage.

7

26 June 15th AF 10 Sept 15th AF

55.

Fanto Vienna/ Vosendorf

Oil refinery

Capacity 14.0,000 tons/year.

Minier Oil refinery \ Capacity Vienna/ Korneuberg 50,000 tons/ year.

t

57- \u25a0Skodawerke-

8 July 15th AF

Heavy damage to distil­ lation unit & 7 tanks. Severe damage to luSne oil plant, servicing bldg & warehouse.

8 July

9 tanks & unidentified

23 Aug 15th AF

56. Creditul

+

i^j

Wetzler

.Chemicals/ eluding-

Vienna/

from Petroleum.

15th AF

bldgs destroyed or damaged,

* Severe damage to l<arge

22 August 15th AF

warehouse plant.

26 June

in-

Toluol

& oil treatment

Damage to 3 tanks,con­

15th AF

veyor system, ammonia

plant, gasholders, liquid air plant, fertilizer silos

MoGsibierbaum Also acids & ferti­ lizers

sulphuric acid plant, Winkle r generators .power

'* 4^"'** •

*h"%^% V

rt

*

« ' "4

- house^&^iL^fJf

l

''tanks, •oaxiKs,

spaLLlaneous of

5

£as'holde>f3Wihkler

gasnoiaer^pwinicler

generators & ous s»

5 miscellane­

•

\u2666

111. OIL (continued) B. Refineries

57* Skodawerke^continued)

28 Aug

Wetzler

Vienna/

15th AF

Damge to power station sulphuric acid plant, & ammonia synthesis plant.

26 June Bth AF

Damage to wax treating plant, & distillation unit,

Moosbi erbaum

58*

Refinery Drohobyez

15 large & destroyed.

5

smaller tanks

Oil Refinery Capacity 300,000 tons /year.

8 Aug Bth AF

Severe damage to wax plants, pa eking shed, lubricating oil plant, filter house, Edeleanu piant, laboratory & 2 distillation units, 19 tanks destroyed others damaged.

60. Fanto

Oil refinery Capabity 200,000 tons /year

2l\.

Aug 15th AF

Damage to distillation units ,2 boiler houses, oil treatment plant, packing sheds ,workshops, 6 un­ identified bldgs.

Oil refinery Capacity 90,000 tons/year.

20 Aug

Very heavy damage to 2 distillation units & cracking plant, asphalt treatment plant, boiler house & storage bldg. Tanks destroyed or damaged.

Pardubice

61. Government jf-?

reimery

Dubova

62. Vacuum Kolin

63 • Vacuum Czechowice

61;. Fanto Werk Bohumin

.

15th AF

21; Aug

Oil refinery Capacity 90,000 tons/year.

15th IF

Oil refinery Capacity 75,000 ton s /year

20 Aug 15th AF

Serious damage to distil­ lation plants, boiler house, centrifugating plant & pump house:. De­ struction of 14. large & several smaller tanks.

29 Aug 15th AF

Damage to boiler house, purification plant & 2 unidentified bldgs.

.

Oil refinery Capacity 60,000

65.

A.G.I.P. Refinery Fiume

Damage

to distillation unit, boiler house, power house, other minor damage.

'

tons/year.

#

'

59. Pol ski

Trzebinia

•

Oil refinery Capacity 190,000 tons/year

Capacity 150,000

25 Feb tons per year. 15th AF Plant active but not needed by Germany,

-

83

-

C^

Sevene-

damage

to 6-bay &

2-bay bldgs, other bldgs, & process '

;

tanks.

mtf1!!^

Date o Attacl

#

B. Refineries

.

66 Roms a Fiume

67. 5..1.A.P. Trieste

68.

Aquila Trieste

Oil refinery Capacity 130,000 tons/year.

19/20 July

Oil refinery Capacity 150,000

6 July 15 July 15th AF

Heavy damage. Damage to a few tanks &

9/lO

Very severe damage \u25a0; crude oil dist. unit & boiler house damaged. Bdeleanu unit destroyed. Severe

damage to tanks & other

bldgs.

19 May 15th AF 25 May 15th AF

Tanks destroyed. Bldgs

damaged.

Very severe damage.

tons/year.

Oil refinery Marghera Capacity 1+50,000 Porto tons /year. Also storage

sheds.

9,10 June

2 sheds destroyed. Block of bldgs damaged.

Spezia

Oil refinery Capacity U50,000 tons/year.

19,22 May 15th AF

Damage to cracking plait topping plant, tanks ,& oil depot.

71. Petrolifera

Oil refinery Capacity 50,000

22 June 15th AF

8 tanks & pumps destroyed. End of stills hit.

Oil refinery

28 J4ay,'U3 U.S. Med.

Severe

73. \u25a0?

Small topping refinery with capacity of 10,000 tons/year

23 July 15th AF

Sheds & cooling tower

7l+. Pechelbronn

Oil refinery Capacity 120,000

3

15th A*'

70. Shell

Fornova Di Taro

72.

a.r.A.p

tons/year.

Leghorn

Berat

Merkwiller

•

15th AF

Oil refinery June Capacity 350,00 0 RAF tons /year. 10 June 15th AF

69. AC-IP

•

Damage to dewaxing plant, & boiler house. 9 tanks destroyed.

75*

Compagnie Indus .des. Petroles

Sete/

tons/year.

Nearly every bldg heavily damaged.

Aug

Bth AF

Oil refinery Caps city 300,000 tons/yeer. Not in operation

25 June 15th AF

Damage to 6 tanks ,cracking plant, stores, & unidentified bldgs. Destruction of 8 small tanks & unidentified bldgs.

Oil refinery Capacity unknown Not in operation

25 June 15th AE

" Dama ge to t pnks ,uni<|^gitij* fi,ed bldgs .Destruction ?

Frontignan

¥,** {'<%

76.

Etang de Thau

Sete/Balaruc

.»

til

tf­

%os.

C5-5268,j^ 84

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111. OIL

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Date o f

Attack

Importance

~

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(continued)

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B. Refineries

77 • Pechelbronn Donges

Oil re finery Capacity 250,000 tons /year. Used for storage.

23/2U

July

2U/^5

Almost all bldgs damaged; 13 large tanks & many smaller tanks destroyed.

July

Several more tanks de­ stroyed.

RAP

RAF

78* S.G.H.P. Courchelettes

79 • Texas Bee d'Ambes

-

3

Almost every bldg hit, with power plant & 3 bldgs complexes severely dam­ aged.

Oil refinery Former capacity 300,000 tons. Used for storage only*

Bth AF

Oil stores

h Aug RAF

Severe damage, with 13 tanks destroyed or dam­ aged.

h Aug

small bldgs &numerous tanks destroyed. Damage to distillation & cracking units • 5 main bldgs & 6 small bldgs destroyed. 6 medium tanks damaged.

Refining of

350,000

Aug

tons/

year capacity. Inactive.

80. Shell

Paullic

81. Rhenania

Ossag

Hamburg/

Oil stores Refining of 500,000 year capacity. Inactive

tons/

11

RAF

6

Aug Bth AF

Capacity 550,000

2/3 Aug'l;3

Moderate

RAF

tons/year.

20 June Bth AF

Damage to distillation plants ,2boiler houses, cracking plant, topping plant, wax extraction,

Oil refinery

Harburg

asphalt treatment & stor­ age, pumping stations. 11

unidentified bldgs destroy

cd.

Destruction of 11 tanks.

Damage to processing plstfb

many tanks ,s small uniden­ tified bldgs.

6 Aug Bth AF

82. Ebano

Hamburg/fearburg

•

83. Europaische Tanklager Hamburg

Oil refinery 20 June Capacity I+oo,ooo Bth AF tons /year. 6 Aug Bth AF Oil refinery

I+oo,ooo

tons/

year capacity

Hits on distillation plant & oil stores. Minor damage. Damage

to cracking plant, large group of tanks,

18 June 20 June Bth AF

boiler houses & several

bldgs. 30 large

/

destroyed^

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.

Target

Importance

Date of Attack

Damage

OIL (continued) B. Refineries

111

#

814.. Rhenania Ossag Hamburg

85. Julius Schindler Hamburg

boiled nouses

Oil refinery Capacity 130,000 tons /year.

, 1 j/^PWdfel VPama^e' to 2 Bth AF several distillation plants many 2 stores bldgs Miscellaneous tanks. bldgs destroyed.

Oil refinery

20 June Bth AF

Capacity ljO,ooo tons

/year

28/29

Hits on main distilla-

July

tion plant, storage & power house 5 tanks destroyed.

'I+3

Moderate

tanks

RAF

Karch 86. D.eutsche Vacuum Oil refinery Hamburg/Schulau Capacity 18,000 SAF 6 Aug tons /year

2 large & 15 small/ medium tanks destroyed. Damage to distillation plant, boiler house, filtration & finished products plants.

Bth AF

•

87. Albrecht Schlieman Oil refinery Hamburg

88. Olex Dutsche

& storage.

Oil refinery

Benzin Hamburg

89. Deutsche Erdol (Deurag) Hanover/V'isburg

90. ii emmingstedt J

2/3

Aug

'li3 Moderate

RAF 20 June Bth AF

2k Aug Bth AF

11, 12 Sept Bth 4F

Moderate damage.

2/3

Destroyed.

Aug

'U3

Severe

damage.

Moderate

damage

.

RAF. Oil refinery 20 June Capacity 300,000 Bth AF

tons/year

Oil mine & oil refinery. Capa city 190,000

tons/year.

18 July Bth AF

h Aug Bth AF

6 Aug

Hits on Dubbs cracking plant, stabilization plant, polymerisation plant, dew axing plant, lube oil plant, 13 tanks & large unidentified bldg. Several bldgs destroyed.

Severe damage to distil-

lation unit, other bldgs,

3 tanks works bop & cooling tower. 2 tanks & sheds damaged.

Bth AF

#

r*

'

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#

B. Refineries

90. Heramingstedt

91. Ma

Wag Ostermoor

92. Deutsche Gasolin

Emmerich

93* Deutsche Vacuum

Bremen/

Oslebshausen

•

9U« Deutsche

Gasolin Dollbergen

95. Erdol

Salzbergen

96. Deutsche Oil Rositz

97« Westfallische

(continued)

2k

Milan

•

unidentified bldgs. 3 tanks damaged.

- Hits on

Oil refinery Capacity 15Q,000

20 June

Bth AF

5 storage tanks, rectifying unit,distil­ lation units, boiler house

Oil refinery Capacity 60 ,500

114. June Bth iF

Hits on distillation unit^ & unidentified bldgs.

Oil refinery Capacity 8O;6OO tons /year Operating on distillates i

$)e<3

tons/year.

tons/^ear

. .

Oil refinery

Capacity UOjOOO

* J43

Oil refinery Capacity 30,000 tons/year. Oper­ ating on distil­ lates.

­

Moderate

Bth AF

I+ Amg

Damage to several bldgs. 3 tanks demolished & 7 damaged.

5 Aug Bth AF

Destruction of main boiler house, damage to 2 distillation plants, oil pump house, 7 medium unidentified bldgs, & 17 tanks

Bth A#

tons /year. Oper­ ating on distil** lates.

.

26 Aug Bth AF

8 storage tanks damaged or destroyed; packing house severely damaged; cracking plant damaged.

. to

Oil refinery Capacity 120,000 tons/year.

16 Aug

Severe damage

Bth AF

Beiitsche.& Petroleum

Lubricating oils

k/5 May 'U3

Moderate

7/8

Severe

Mineral Dortmund

98. Reinach

Damage to oil tanks &

Aug Bth AF 12 Sept Bth AF

A.G. RAF

Lubricating oils

RAF

Aug*I+3

•

102. Teerverwertung Tar disti Hates Duisburg

103. Mo lbis Leipzig

•

lOlj.. Beer Sohne

29/30 Low temperature carbonization & coal tar treat­ ment.

28 May Bth AF

6 bldg s

Tar distillation

22/23

May

Moderate damage.

Bergworks Duisburg

12/l3 RAF 21/22

May»i4.3-Moderate damage.

106.

Grossgaserei

Magdeburg/

severely damaged,.

RAF

Dortmund

105» Gelsenkirchen

Mar 11|3 -Slight

Coke & tar dis­ tillates

May

12 Sept

Gas & tar distil­ lation.

Moderate damage.

Moderate damage.

Bth AF

Rothensee

-

107. Noblee v Thorl Vegetable oil re­ Dec 'U3 Hamburg

Bth AF

20 June Bth AF

Hits on large bldg, smaller bldgs, & oil tanks

Vegetable oil refinery Pre-attack capa­ city 6,000 year.

2k Aug Bth AF

Heavy damage to vegetable oil plant.

Vegetable oils.

18 /l9 Aug ' RAF

Heavy damage.

tons/

108. Rhenania Ossag

Dresden/ Freital

•

109. Oelfabriken

Slight

finery & hydro genation plantest 26,000 year capacity.

.

tons/

Grossberau Bremen

I^l^ 88

4V4 V

v c

'

C5-5268,AF

Target

Importance

MEW Rating

Date of

. ** 1£*$ 1

IV RUBBER

#

1. Chemische Huls 2

Damage

Attack

Hanover

%

ff8 W%

|wf/'J4§ n § f^ev&reK r-\u25a0| f iI Bth|# 1141 SL tf t ~_/JJ I Mm M

rubber

\u0084

Tires & other(l4) 26 July '43 Bth AF rubber goods 8/9 Oct. '43 RAF

18/19

*

Oct

Moderate Moderate

'43 * Moderate

RAF

Damage to rolling machinery bldg, storage & Office bldgs.

31 Jan Bth AF 3. Gummiwerke

(2) 11 Sept Bth AF

Tire Fcty.

Fulda Fulda

4. Dunlop

15/16

Sept

Tires & tubes. Capacity 300,000 tires j output much smaller.

16/17

Mar

Rubber & tires.

9/10

Rubber & tires

Montlucon

•

""*

t"

(1|) 22

Werke Synthetic

. Continental

91 47$

.

5 Michelin Clermont Ferrand .

6. Goodrich

Paris/

Gennevilliers

RAF

Output estimated at 2,000 tires/

capacity mo

-

50,000/ 7. Pirelli

Turin

9. Fiat

Turin

.

'43

Severe Severe

damage

Rubber goods

compounding plants &

power station.

One-third demolished.

May

RAF

7/8

Aug. '43

Severe

4/5

Feb. '43

Slight

RAF

Tires & rubber

•a goods

RAF

Rubber goods,

12/13

ebonite

RAF

• - 39 -

to tire

plant, tube plant,

RAF

mo.

Mian

8. Michelin

Severe damage to 2 largest bldgs 9 1 med­ ium bldg, & 4 smaller bldgs

July

'43

Moderate

Target

#

V

LEW Rating

Importance

SUBMARINE YARDS 1. Deutsche Kiel

Werft

U-boats on slips

-

Date of Attack

'^-Moderate

(14) 14 May

h _|f 3% of total under |i|| construction in B H Al Wfc Germany in Feb. lW|'3sfl^hW

J%^ I"}

*

Damage

§\u25a0 ffi^^W^fa \ : '% iii!\\uu25a025a0% *

» &P iLaJrij gj '""'* ~ *

AF^"

Bth 22 May Bth AF 18 July Bth AF

-Minor

-Engineering shops, carpenter's shops, power station damaged. July -Damage to stores,

23/24 16/17

If11

facilities, shipp­ Aug

ing & buildings

RAF

30

-Damage to 1 large bldg & 3 medium bldgs.

Aug

Bth AF

•

2. Krupp Germania Kiel

U-boats on slipslop of total under construction in Germany in Feb 1944

(1-j-) U May '43 -Severe Bth AF

5 Jan Bth AF

-Slight

22 May Bth AF 6 July Bth AF

-Minor -Damage to erecting & testing shop, small bldgs, & boiler shop. -Damage to erecting & testing shop, paint & joiners shop, 2 unidenti­ fied bldgs; dcs­ truction of car­ penters shops & 5 unidentified bldgs

Aug Bth AF

30

3. Kriegsmarine Werft Kiel

Shipbuilding, in­ cluding submarines.

(14) 25 July '43-Moderate Bth AF

6 July

-Moderate

Bth AF

23/24 16/17

•

July -4 engine shops, Aug damaged, 2 floating drydocks sunk. RAF -Moderate damage. 30 Aug Bth AF

4. Naval Arsenal Kiel

Shipbuilding

(1)

5. .Blohm & Voss

Y/arships, includ­ ing submarines, diesel engines & other equipment.

(1-0 26 July '^Severe

Hamburg

- 90 -

Aug 3th AF

-Moderate

30

f U^.^-.'

:l

Slight

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•

6. Howaldts Werke Hamburg

Submarine

(i) 26 July '43 -Moderate Bth AF -1 medium & 3 large 18 June bldgs destroyed, Bth AF roof damage to 2

con-

struction

large bldgs. -Damage to frame bending & plate shops, angle bar smithery, stores & sheds.

4 Aug Bth AF

7,

Deutsche Werft Hamburg

8. Stulchen Sohn

*

tankers,

9. Schiffsbau

small freighters

Moderate

Bth AF

Submarines

(2) July '43

Moderate

(2) July '43

Moderate

RAF

Submarine- Research

RAF

-

10. Deschimag Bremen

Shipyard submarines (l) 8 Oct '43 Bth AF & naval vessels. 29 July Bth AF

-Moderate

11. Atlas Werke Bremen

Shipyard producing (2) Dec. '43 small naval vessels, i Bth AF ship propellors & 18/19 Aug other equipment. RAF

-Moderate

12. Deschimag* Bremerhaven

13. Norddeutschewerft

(1)

Shipbuilding

14. Unterweser

Shipbuilding

Oderwerke Stettin

16. Stettiner Vulkanwerft Stettin

Heavy damage to every major bldg.

Sept

Severe

(3) 18/19 Sept

Moderate

(2) 18/19 Sept

Severe

RAF

Shipbuilding

Bremerhaven

15. Stettiner

18/19

-7 bldgs destroyed or damaged.

RAF

Bremerhaven

•

(2) Aug

Hamburg

Hamburg

•

Submarines,

RAF

(1) 13 May

Submarine & ship construction.

-Medium & 1 small

Bth AF 16/17 Aug RAF

bldgs destroyed.

-Destruction of 10 bldgs. . Severe damage to 16 bldgs.

(2) 11 April

Submarine con­

-Damage to 4 uni­ dentified bldgs.

-Plate shops &

several bldgs.

Bth AF 13 May Bth AF

struction k ship repair.

V

X >\u25a0\u25a0:

C5~5268,AF 91

V V

•

Target T

MEW Rating

Importance

ont'd.) SUBMARINE 'YARDS (Cc Cont'd. 17. Schiffwerft Rostock Rostock

18. Marine Werft Wilhelmshafen Wilhelmshafen

-

U-boats on slips

Date of Damage

Attack

(2) 20 Feb

0o of total under construction in Germany in Feb. 194-4

-Moderate

Bth AF

-

(2) 22 Mar '4-3 -Moderate, U-boats on slips total under Bth. AF U% of construction in 21 May f 43 -Moderate Germany in Feb. 194-4Bth AF Most important 11 June f 43 -Moderate German Naval Base. Bth AF

.

3'Nov '43

-Moderate

Bth AF

3 Feb

Bth AF

-

Severe damage to

several shops, stores, & other bldgs

19. Nordseewerke Emden

•

Submarines & small naval vessels.

(2) 2 Oct '43 Bth AF 6 Sept

.

-Moderate Severe

damage

to

engineering shops

RAF

foundries, 3 bldgs 20. Bremer Vulkan 20. Vegesack

Submarines

(2) 18 Mar '4.3 Bth AF

Severe

21. Flensburger Schiffsbau

Submarines Submarines

(1) 19 May '43 Bth AF

Moderate

Flensburg

• I*l WW |*j J%iii

92

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jJSvR**

•

Importance

Target

VI TANKS

AM) MOTOR

MEW Date of Rating Attack

Damage

TRANSPORT

1. Henschel

Kassel

Tanks, locomotives, trucks

.

1+ 3/4 Oct '43

—Slight

RAF

22/23

Oct '43-Moderate

RAF 2. Klockner­ Humbolt-Deutz

Engines, trucks

1

3/4

July

'43 -Severe

RAF

Cologne

3. Sulzer

Diesel engines

16/17 Apr '.43-Slight 9/10 Aug '43- -Slight

2

RAF

Mannheim

'43—"Moderate

RAF

5/6-

Sept

RAF

4. Daimler Benz

Mannheim

•

Diesel engines

2

18/19

Nov

'43-Moderate

RAF

5. Motoren Mannheim Diesel engines

9/10 Mar '43 -Slight 23/24 Sept '43-Slight

2

RAT

Mannheim

RAF

6. Eisenwerk

Steel, gears,

Wulfel

transmissions

22/23

2

Sept

'43- Moderate

Mar '43

-Moderate

RAF

Hanover

7. Klockner-

MV repairs

1/2

2

RAF

Humbolt-

Deutz

23/24

Berlin 8

. Renault

Paris

Aug

RAF'

4 Apr '43

Motor trucks & tanks

'43-Moderate -Severe

Bth AF 15 Sept '43 Bth AF

'

-Moderate

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Motor trucks

22 June Bth AF

10. S.P.A. Turin

Lorries & engines

12/13

11. Rheinmetall Borsig

Tanks, AFV, munitions,

9. Fora

Antwerp

Berlin/

43

-Moderate

July '43-Moderate

RAF

armaments

1+

.

45$ of bldgs. destroyed or damaged.

Jan RAF

Rheinickendorf

#

12. Daimler Benz

Berlin/Marien­ felde.

Tanks & aero-engines

%

1

23/24

Nov

'43-Moderate

RAF

Jan-Feb RAF

Moderate damage.

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MEW Importance

Target

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VI. TANKS

AM)

""

Rating

Date of

Attack

Damage

MOTOR TRANSPORT (continued)

13. M*I,A.G.

Brunswick/

Tanks and components

A/C

1

Neupetritor

-Severe damage.

Feb Bth AF 8 Apr Bth AF 5 Aug .Bth AF

-Moderate damage.

-Severe damage to large workshop,, stores,

damage to unidentified bldgs, 3 large workshops, & power house. 13/14 Aug-Damage to 3 workshops, 2 machine shops, & RAF stores 28 Sept -Slight damage. Bth AF

.

1-4. Fr. Krupp Grusonwerke Magdeburg

Medium tanks

'1

heavy engineering.

21/22

Jan Moderate damage.

RAF 5 Aug Bth AF

•

11 Sept Bth AF

15. M.A.N. Nuremburg

Diesel engines,

1

heavy tanks, armoured cars.

-Severe damage to foundries, repair shops, 2 pattern shops, boiler shop, assembly shop, & Damage to stores. very large ma­ 3 chine & assembly shops -Damage to 2 machine shops, probable stores & unidenti­ fied bldgs.

.

8/9 Mar.'43-Moderate

RAF 10 Sept Bth AF

-Damage shop,

to erecting 3 shops, 2

unidentified bldgs, & stores.

±fi. Nibelungen Valentin St.

•

20/21 Aug-Damage to components shop, & unidentified Med. AF bldgs

Assembly of Mark IV & VI tanks.

.

17. Maybach Motore'n Tank& AFV, & AC Friedrichshaf en engines

1

20/21

' ­

June 43

Slight

RAF

16,18 Mar-New

bldg. 1/3 gutted. Bth AF 27/28 Apr-Most of important bldgs destroyed or RAF severely damaged. 20 July -Widespread damage.

15th AF

rw,pA

-r

, ffl

CJ-52^

§r?s f

i

J

11 I

#

VI. TANKS 18.

AM) MOTOR

Norddeutsche Motorenbau Berlin

TRANSPORT (continued) Tank engines second most important producer in Germany.

1

-2 large & 1 medium bldg damaged: -Severe damage to machinery shop, large foldg, 6 medium bldgs, <& 5 small bldgs

21 June Bth AF

6 Aug Bth AF

19. Zahnrad Fabrik Gears, Friedrichshafen

gear boxes, axle k brakes for tanks & military vehicles

1

Linz 21. Feinrich Lanz Mannheim

.

Iron, steel, chemicals,

tank components

A.F.V.'s h artillery tractors

.

Apr

25

July

Very heavy damage.

15th AF 1

Aug T i;3-Moderate

9/lO

RAF 9 Sept Bth AF

#

.

-Damage t0 2 workshops, minor damage to 3 small bldgs Moderate damage.

.

21 July Bth AF 22. Adler Werke Frankfurt

AFV's and components

1

22/23

RAF

12/13 R\F

23. Vogele

AFV's and

components

2

Mannheim

Mar -Severe damage to 3 machine shops, repair shop, stores & other "toldgs Sept-Damage to 3 mcd. & 1 large fcldg.

.

16/17 Apr RAF

\u25a0Moderate

'U3

21 July

.

21+

Gothaer Waggonf abr i kGoth a

25. Fanoversche

•

llaschinenbau Hanover

destroyed or 2/3 severely damaged

severely damaged. -toderate additional damage.

RAF 3 Aug 15th AF

.

20. Goer ing Works

27/28

-Moderate damage.

Bth AF

Locomotives, trucks, AFV T s Tractors k armoured carriers

.

1

20, 2h Feb Bth AF

Severe

damage.

8/9 0ct U3-Moderate f

RAF 11 Sept Bth AF

Damage to armour plate & assembly shop, power plant, foundry, offices, 3 machine shops

.

- 95 -

Target

#

Importance

Rating

Attack

X

16 Mar. Bth AF

Damage

Vl* TANKS AND MOTOR TRANSPORT

26. Klockner Humboldt Deutz Ulm

Heavy trucks & AFV

Aug.

Bth AF

13 Sept

Damage to assembly

shop, workshops,

heat treatment &

press shop, compon­ ents shop & uniden­ tified bldgs.

-Damage to main works hop, assembly­ shop ;sworkshops stores, power plant. -Severe damage.

,

Bth AF

•

27. Bussing NAG Berlin/fcopenick

Lorries ,AFV,wire? 2 less equipment.

Jan RAF

Moderate damage.

28. Bussing. NAG

Trucks ,Artil1 lery tractors, & military transport

5 Aug Bth AF

Damage to assembly

Brunswick

13/14

Aug. RAF

29. Daimler Benz Stuttgart/

Motor trucks.

1

9,ll+Aug Bth AF

Sindelfingen

10 Sept Bth AF

30. Daimler Benz Stuttgart/ Uhterturkheim

31. Dafesler Benz Gaggesxau

32.

•

shop, 2 smaller shops & sheds. -Moderate damage.

Opel Brandenburg

Armaments, aeroengines, light personnel trucks , carriers; compo­ ents.

1

10 Sept. Bth AF

Trucks (ljton).

6 Aug Bth AF

1

shop, 4 shop-type bldgs, lstore ,& bldgs .unidentified. -Severe damage to 7 workshops, admin­ istrative & storage bldgs.

20/21 Feb -Foundry, stores,& RAP other bldgs damaged Sept damage. -Severe 5 Bth AF 12/l3 Sept-Moderate damage. RAF

Heavy motor trucks 1 diesel engines &• munitions

.

-Damage to large

-6

main workshops severely damaged; 2 slightly damaged.

Damage to main production hall, 32 stores bldgs, 1+ bldgs, & power plant*

•

VI. TANKS AND MOTOR TRANSPORT (continued)

33.

Opel Russelheim

Components for 1 trucks, Ju 88s & aero-engines.

20 July Bth &$ «.

shops.

12/l3 RAF 25/^6 RAF

3U«

Volkswagenwerke Fallersleben

•

Components for military trans­ port. Also components.

1

A/C

Aug -Damage to several bldgs. Aug -Severe damage to 3 large assembly shops ,laboratories , forge, 2 large machine shops, main body bldg shop, aero engine shop. Damage to storage sheds.

8 April 20 June Bth AF

5 Aug. Bth AF

35* Auto Union Chemnitz/Siegmar

Trucks (also machinery at ad joining Wanderer

2

Puch Steyr

37. B,M.W.

Eisenach

Trucks, small arms bearings, AC components

-Severe damage to 2 large machine shops & 7 smaller bldgs.

Feb.2l|.

Damage to machine shops, -works hops, foundry,power stations ,offices & unidentified bldg.

15th

.

Trucks, motor trans- 2 port & possible aero-engines.

AF

20 July Bth AF

1

11 Sept Bth AF

•

38. Karl F.W. Borgward

Bremen/

Hastedt

AFV & MT works

1

-Minor damage. -Damage to 2 machine shops,press shop, very large machine & assembly shop. -Severe damage to all large bldgs, ex­ cept power house.

11 Sept Bth AF

Werke)

36. Steyr-Daimler

-Damage to assembly sub-assembly,body pressing & machine

-Heat treatment & machine shop de­ stroyed. Damage to offices,power plant & copper mill. -Heavy damage to assembly & repair shops & power plant Mod. damages to foundry & 3 shops.

8/9 Oct»U3-S light

KM

Dec»U3

-Slight

Bth AF 26 Sept Bth AF

-Damage

to foundry, heat treatment &

VI. TAMES AND MOTOR TRANSPORT (continued)

39. Karl P.W.

Sept Bth AF

Borgward

Bremen/ (

Severe damage to machine shop; damage to finishing & dis­ patch assembly shop,

26

2

AFV & MT works

•

Sebaldsbrucke )

foundry.

140. Ambi-Budd Berlin/Treptow

Press

I+l. Aug.Gericke

Military vehicles

work for

1

tanks, cars, etc.

3

Berlin/

.

Military vehicles, probably repairs

Span da u

I+3-

#

Fichtel & Sachs Schweinfurt

Motorcycles ,small 2 motors ,M.T, cornponents.

Automobiles

Alfred Teves Frankfurt

i;7. Alfred Knecht

Stuttgart/

2

.

R.Bosch Stuttgart

Feb Bth AF 19,21 July Bth AF

-Damage

2lx Apr Bth AF

-7 minor bldgs des­

to several

shops.

-Damage

to electro­

platin shops, machine

shop, boiler house & unidentified bldgs. troyed or damaged.

29 May 15th AF

Roofing of main fcty block damaged &' 1 bay destroyed. shops , storage, assembly, dispatch & unidenti­ fied bldgs destroyed or severely damaged.

Motor transport components

1*

20 Mar Bth AF

Petrol filters.

2

18 July

3

Bad Cannstatt

I4S.

Moderate.

21+

Fabrik A.G. Atzgersdorf

I 46 •

Moderate,

Jan RAF

Neckersulm

i;^. Perl Automobil

30 Sept

\/Z Mar' l+3-Mo derate.

3

Motor cycles

Moderate.

Bth AF

Bielefeld

I+2. Auto-Union

Jan RAF

6 machine

-Moderate damage.

Aug.

RAF Spark plugs.

21 July Bth AF

2

.

12/13

-Severe

damage.

-Moderate damage.

Sept.

•

RiF

Il9«

General Motors

Antwerp

lU May11+3

Est I+oo trucks per month.

-Slight Bth AF 22 June'l^-Ifoderate Bth AF May -Main bldg groupRAF 3/I+ ,destroyed.

21+/25

98

*

VI. TANKS MD MOTOR TRANSPORT (continued)

l/2May

Truck assembly

50. Berliet

RAF

Lyons

51. Mirafiori Turin

52. Repair

Depot Chivasso

plant & found­ damage to power ry^ station shop, & other bldgs. July 2k -14. large bldgs & 15th AF various sheds dama­ ged or destroyed.

22 June

Repair of motor transport

15th AF 28 May Bth AF

si-|..Army DeDot

others damaged.

Several tanks dama­ ged.

shops

&

19 July Damage to 20 storage sheds & machine shop. 15 AF

Depot

Ordnance Depot' Ulm (Neu Ulm) Depot

Mainz/kastel

59 • Ordnance Depot Magdeburg/frriedrichstadt

•

6 main bldgs hit.

21+

Aug Of the 21 principal bldgs, Bth AF more than half have been damaged.

s ho fen

58. Ordnance

workshops destroyed, 9 others severely damaged.

16

Main Ordnance Depot Naumburg

Munich/kilbert-

57 •

h main

13 June Damage to 5 15th AF 8 sheds.

Munich Milbertshofen

56. Ordnance

,

15th AF main

Depot Konigsborn

55 •

assembly shops, foundry workshops & other bldgs.

22 June Severe damage to

Motor transport & armored vehicles, aero- engines.

53 »Ordnance

•

Severe damage to

10 Sept Bth AF

Damage to

8 Sept Bth AF

5 bldgs damaged

7 bldgs.

severely

; 7damaged.

Sept-Damage 11/l2 Bth AF ction of

or destru­ 5 large, 6 medium, & 2 small

bldgs.

60. State Arsenal

10 Sept 15th AF

Vienna

61. Ordnance

Depot

-15

bldgs damaged.

Sept. Damage to Bth AF

19

Uhna

r

\

v1

_ _ 99

•

W»

* *

\u25a0ft

ffi'.

•*

5 bldgs. /

* it

h

m

2. Spandauer Stahl

.

1

Locomotives.

1

Guns £nd components

Berlin

.

3 . Berliner Mas­

De c

43

23/24­

Aug

43 Moderate.

9/10

M?r 43

11/12

June

27/28

Sep

RAF

chinenbau

Slight.

16/17

RAF

Berlin

4. Krauss & Co. Munich.

5* Schwietzke

Dusseldorf

6. Drinkes Eisen

1

Locomotives AFVs.

RAF 2

Castings, torpedoes.

•

Steel products.

2

Remscheid

9. Gebr.Bickhoff

Moderate.

Machinery, MV

2

30/31

Severe.

2

13/14

May

29/30

Sept

18/19

Nov 43 Moderate,.

25/26

Nov

components. Machinery.

2

Machinery.

Frankfurt

13 • Lehman Dusseldorf

14. Waggonfabrik

Submarine pumps. 2

•

Transport Leipzig

16. Albert V/uppertal

17. Deutsche Waff en

43

Slight.

Moderate.

RAF

Chem. plant

,

mat , ele ctrodes

2 2

Constructional engineering.

11/12 43

2

RR cars.

43

RAF

Dusseldorf

15. Bleichert

July RAF 43

43 RAF

Ludwigshafen

12. Lurgi Co.

Moderate

RAF

Bahndarf Bochum

11. Neidig

Slight..

3/4 Nov 43 June 11/12 43 RAF

2

Wire.

Bochum

10. Maschinen &

43

RAF

Dusseldorf

8. Alexanderwerk

Moderate.

43 RAF

Hanover

7. Klocknerwerke

Slight.

June RAF

11/12

June

43 RAF

Trailers

.

2

3/4

Dec

43

RAF

.

Iron & Steel products

3

Guns & components

3

29/30

May 43

16/17

Dec

RAF

43

f

Berlin

!'rik)itl 100

« Target

Importance

UtiuLfi«)t*>§' is- II

Rating

Date of Damage

Attack

VII ARMAMENTS AND MISCELLANEOUS ENGINEERING (continued)

18, Barmen

#

Masohinen

3

Textile machinery.

4-3

Moderate,

RAF

Wuppertal

19. Krantz Aachen

20, Malmedie

Armaments & machinery.

3

Wire machines,

3

21. Chillingworth Engineering, Nuremburg

22, Jagenbergwerke

3

metal products

Bremen

24«. Hans Steil .

3

Paper machinery.

Machinery for oil industry,.

3

11/12

Severe*

10/11

Aug 43 Slight.

June 43 RAF

3/4 Nov 43

Severe.

Dec

Moderate...

Diesel dynamos..

3

Armaments,

.

July RAF

26.; Falck

Milan

Steel products.

27. Cincani Milan

Steel goods.

28,, Off ..Stigler Milan

Iron and

aluminum products,.

7/8 Aug

43

Moderate,­

7/8 Aug

43

Moderate.­

RAF

7/8

Aug. 43

7/8 Aug

Cars, MV..

Severe..

43

Moderate.-

Jul 43

Ifbderate.

RAF

.

Brakes, A/C components

12/13 RAF

31, Meccaniche Milan

RR cars, ordnance.

32., Breda C. M..., Milan

Armaments, loco­ motives.

33.,

RR cars, ordnance,

Milan

Moderate,.

RAF

Mian

Off. Meccaniche

June

43 RAF

RAF

Turin

Slight.:'

43

19/20

locomotives

30. Farina

43

Bth AF

25, Le Creusot Mills Le Creusot

29... Bianchi

Moderate.­

RAF

Hamburg

\

July

RAF

Dusseldorf 23. Frankwerke

13/14

4-3 RAF

Dusseldorf

#

29/30 Ma?

7/8 Aug

43

Moderate,,­

7/8 Aug

43

Slight.

7/8 Aug

43

Moderate..

RAF

munitions

RAF

.

RAF

rtssimlf*f

i

# M

C5-5268,AF

101

yiij ilI lW si|j|y § IuII Target

MEW Rating

Importance

Date of

Attack

Damage

-

VII ARMAMENTS AND MISCELLANEOUS ENGINEERING (continued)

#

34. Fried Krupp Essen *

Armaments & heavy engineer-

1+

Moderate.

5/6 12/13 Mar 43-Moderate.

RAF 3/4 Apr 43 Slight..

Mar 43

RAF

.

ing shells & fuzzes

­

RAF

27/28

May

43-Moderate.

­

RAF

25/26 July 43 RAF 26/27 Mar

Moderate. Severe

damage

to ,. shell

RAF

steel works

26/27

turning shop, fur­ foundry & machine shop # 21 bldgs severely

naces,

Apr

damaged, including shops for lorries, Dies el engines, R/R equipment, howitzers and steel.

RAF

•

bldgs moderately or slightly damaged.

32 35,

Rheinmetall

Guns, shells,

Borsig Dusseldorf

forgings munitions

14-

11/12 43

3/4

June RAF Nov 43

- Slight.

-

Slight.

RAF

16/17

Dec 43-Moderate,

22/23

Apr

RAF

Severe

damage.

RAF

Serious damage to machine & assembly shops, foundry, steel making shop & press shop.

9 Sept Bth AF

36. Mannesmann Dusseldorf

Tubes, munitions

1 »

- Slight. - Slight.

11/12 June 43 RAF 3/4 Nov 43 RAF

22/23 Apr

Severe damage.

RAF

•

37. Press and Y/alzwerk

Dusseldorf

Pressed

&

3

.

rolled steel products

11/12 June 43 RAF 3/4 Nov 43 RAF 22/23 Apr

\

­

- Moderate. - Moderate. Severe damage.

RAF

.

38. Deutsche Delta Steel & brass Dusseldorf

products

3

22/23

Apr

Moderate damage.

RAF

"

102 ~

illml<•

*:

*!**

'"' W

•

Target

Importance

Rating

Damage

Attack

VII. ARMAMENTS AND MISCELLANEOUS ENGINEERING (continued) 39. M.A.N. Augsburg

Diesel engines, 1 (especially sub) lorries, AA

25/26

Feb

21/22

Jan

75-95$ destroyed

damage.

or damage.

RAF

Artillery.

40. Mas chinenfabrik Steam & diesel engines, sub Buckau Magdeburg

4-1. Berliner

Mas chinenbau/ Berlin/Wildau

1

Moderate damage,

RAF

.

components, armaments

Steam & diesel

1

8 Mar Bth AF

Damage to bolt & tool shop, mech­ anical shop & painting shops.

1

3/2 Mar RAF

21 July Bth AF

Slight damage.

21/22

May

Moderate damage.

21/22

May

Slight damage.

12/13

May

Moderate

locomotives, precision machinery, torpedo & sub components \u26 6

42.

•

Ess linger Mas chinen Stuttgart

Locomotives, boilers, pumps.

Steam 43. Demag Werke I Duisburg

engines, pumps, bridges,

1

Severe

damage.

RAF

etc. 44. Demag Werke JI Structural Duisburg

45. Eisenwerk

Munitions

Duisburg

46. Kabelwork A.G. »

Duisburg

2

steelwork & bridges ,

.

RAF

2

damage.

43 RAF

.

Torpedo nets & cables

2

8/9 Jan 43

Moderate damage.

21/22

May

Moderate damage.

12/13

May 43-Slight damage.

21/22

May

­

Slight

damage.

21/22

Jan

- Slight

damage,

RAF

RAF

47. Berninghaus

Boilers.

2

Duisburg

RAF

RAF

48. Otto Gruson

•

Magdeburg

Steel fabricat- 2 ion for AFV gears,

RAF

etc.

\

/

- 103 - W i

**" v

VII. ARMAMENTS AND MISCELLANEOUS ENGINEERING (continued)

49. Wilkie Werke

#

Brunswick

Boilers, pipes, tanks, gas-

holders

20/21 Feb

2

.

Severe damage to large workshop,

RAF 29 Feb

machine shops, press, forging & other shops

15,23,29 March

Bth AF 8 Apr Bth AF

Severe damage to large workshop & machine shop; damage to various shops. Severe damage.

19 May Bth AF 5 Aug Bth AF

13/14

Workshop & steel shop destroyed, damage to stores bldg part of annealing furnaces. Severe roof damage to assembly & erecting shop & boiler smithery.

Aug

RAF

50. J.M, Weisemann Piston rings, precision parts Stuttgart

2

Severe damage.

25 Feb Bth AF

for sub motors.

12/13

Sept

20/21

Feb

- Severe

damage.

RAF

#

51. Kreidles Metall Pressed & Stuttgart drawn rods of

2

Slight damage.

RAF

heavy & light

metal.

20/21 Feb

Components for 2 52. Hesser Maschinenfabrik submarine & Stuttgart

53. Rathgeber Munich

damage.

43- Moderate

damage.

RAF

engine: tank engines. Railway

cars,

.

.

54. Vereinigte Leichmetall

A/C & bomb components

55. Motorenwerke M?nnheim

Submarine diesels; hand grenades •

56, Elektroacustic Hydrophone & Kiel aeronautical

9/10

2

buses, artillery tractors

Hanover/Linden

•

Moderate

Mar

RAF

11,21 July 15th, Bth AF

- Moderate

damage.

11 Sept Bth AF

Damage to extruding

2

31 July Bth AF

Slight damage.

2

6 July Bth AF

Severe damaga.'pk

Half of bldgs, 'A %

2

signalling apparatus

& press shop.

destroyed, A ftJj^

\u25a0t

•-' '•• tf 4-K V^ '

\u25a0

- 104 -

C5-5268,AF

»

\

•

ISM Target

Importance

Rating

Date of Attack

Damage

VII. ARMAMENTS AND MISCELLANEOUS ENGINEERING (continued) 57. Hans eat ische Apparatebau

Torpedo components &

Kiel

58, Thorns en &

2

6

July­

23/24

electrical

RAF

signalling

apparatus

.

3

Torpedo & mine

July

.

Moderate damage. Mode rat c damag e

30

Aug Bth AF

Slight damage.

18 July

1 bldg.- damaged.

components,

Bth AF

Army motorcycles, 2 small arms amuni­ tion.

30 Sept

Slight damage to 1 plant. Moderate damage to other*

60. Koch & Co. Bielefeld

Small arms

2

30 Sept Bth AF

Moderate

61. Durkopp

Small arms ammunition.

2

30 Sept Bth AF

Severe

damage.

62. Fritz Sauckel

Small arms, gun 2

24 Aug Bth AF

Severe

damage.

24/25

Apr

Moderate

damage.

24/25

Apr

Moderate

damage.

24/25

Apr

Moderate

damage.

24/25 26/27

Apr

Slight damage.

Sept

Slight damage.

26/27

Sept

Slight damage.

26/27

Sept

Damage to

Sept

Slight damage.

Schwarzkoff

Kiel/Holtenau 59, Anker Werke

Bielefeld

components.

Bielefeld

.

tractors, &

Weimar

components

#

63. Durlak Karlsruhe

64. Wolfartsweier Karlsruhe

65, Nahmaschinen Karlsruhe

Small arms and ammunition.

3

Small arms and ammunition.

3

Armaments,

3

Bth AF

damage.

RAF RAF

RAF

66. Deutsche Waffen Munitions,

3

RAF

Karlsruhe

RAF

67. Carl Metz Karlsruhe

Fire fighting equipment

3

RAF

\u2666

68. Junkers & Run Munitions.

.

Karlsruhe

69 Deutsche

•

3

I'ichelin Karlsruhe

70. Deutsche

RAF Unknown formerly rubber goods.

26/27

3

RAF

Heavy engineering

3

Eisenhandel

Slight damage.

Jan RAF

Berlin/Templehof 71. Hartmann &. Braun Frankfurt

6 bldgs.

Firing apparatus for sub. mines.

"

105

"

3

22/23

Mar

- Very severe

RAF

-^ hill P-^P !

damage.

kam \u25a0*! *".

Target

Rating

Importance

. .W

At)||pfeV^ damage

VII. ARMAMENTS AND MISCELLANEOUS ENGINEERING (continued)

#

Sept

«r

20/21

Feb

- 2 bldgs

destroyed.

- Moderate

damage.

Formerly office

73. Karges

Machinery for 3 canning industry.

RAF

3

1/2

Brunswick

machinery.

3

RAF

%

74. Zahnraderfabrik Gears. 75 \u26 6 Neidig Sohne Mannheim

76. V..D.M. Cologne

77. Meer MunchenGladbacH

Sept Bth AF

Detonators, shell cases.

3

20/21

Heavy engineering and armaments

3

.

- Severe

damage,

RAF

9/10 19/20

Sept Sept

9/10

Sept

.- Slight

damage. -Nearly destroyed.

RAF

3

machinery*

­

RAF

3

80. Motorenfabrik Darmstadt

Diesel engines.

3

19 Sept Bth AF

81. Carl Schenck

Engineering.

3

19 Sept Bth. AF

Nuts & bolts.

3

23/24

Darmstadt Schaurte Neuss

83. Waggonfabrik

to 3 bldgs.

Apr

Field kitchens, petrol tanks.

82. Bauer &

- Damage

9

79. Singer Werke Wittenburge

Slight damage.

\u25a0

Submarine pumps. 3

78. W. Schlafhorst Textile, MunchenGladbach

Mar

RAF

Stuttgart

•

12/13

72. Merz. .Werke Frankfurt

Moderate damage.

-

18 April Bth AF

Sheds damaged or

. destroyed.

- Moderate

damage.

Moderate damage.

- 2 bldgs

Sept

damaged.

RAF

Railroad cars.

Cologne

3

3/4

July 4-3- Moderate.

- Severe

RAF

20/21

Apr

damage.

RAF

84. Waggonfabrik Wismar

•

85. Steinfurt Konigsberg

Railway cars 3 and locomotives.

25 *ug Bth AF

R/R

26/27 29/30

cars.

3

RAF

& Aug

­

Severe damage to 3 assembly shops, timber storage, main workshop, travers er & sawmill. 2 medium bldgs destroyed & gutted.

,**'

UI'iilMMiMMLJiiJ

Target

Date of Attack

Importance

VII ARMAMENTS AND MISCELLANEOUS ENGINEERING (continued) A

86. Henschel & Sohn Wiener Neustadt

Locomotives, heavy engineering.

10 Kay AF 15th AJ 29 May 15th AF

87. Manfred Weiss Budapest

3/4. April

Steel, aluminum,

heavy engineering, Medit. AF tanks or components,

machine tools, shells & artillery \u26 6 27 July 15th AF 88. Hungarian Wagon Works Gyor

Railway cars, machines and armaments. Also alcohol & sugar.

Damage

-

-

- Damage

to rolling mill, 10 machine shops, 2 engineering shops, &. other bldgs Heavy damage to almost all parts of works

-

.

April 15th AF

13

9 Aug 15th AF

#

20 Sept

Main workshop, workshop & other bldgs damaged. Damage to main work­ shop & subsidiary bldg.

-

21 acres gutted. Severe damage to railway shops, possible A./C com­ ponents shop, machine tool & model shop, gas works & alcohol refinery. Damage to workshops, other bldgs., 2 A/C sub-component shops, & car shops. Considerable damage.

15th AF 89. Astra Arad

R/R

90. Astra Brasov

R/R

equipment, tank components other steel products

.

3 July &

Bucharest

92. Magyar (Mavag) Dios gyor

•

93. Ansaldo Genoa

Destruction of 40 acres of shop bldgs, including machine shop, forge, foundry 7 other bldgs.

equipment & armaments

18 May 15th AF

Damage to machine & assembly shop & 2 unidentified bldgs „

Locomotives.

3 July 15th AF

Serious damage to 2 workshops, machine & assembly shop.

Steel armaments, RR equipment.

13 Sept Bth AF

Very heavy damage.

Locomotives,

armaments & steel

9 NOv A3 15th AF 4­ June 15th AF

Severe.

#

91. Malaxa

15th AF

products

#%

Severe damage to coking plant, steel foundry, heavy cast­ ings, forging, & machinery shops.

- 107 -

VII. ARMAMENTS AND MISCELLANEOUS ENGINEERING

#

94. Vickers-Terni Spezia

Armaments

.

(continued) 10,13

Apr.

15th AF

- Roof -

1 July

15th AF

damage to gun shop. Large machine shop & shed, Damage to gun shops & general stores, destruction of 25

sheds. 95. Stabillinente de D^lmini

Steel tubes.

6 July 15th AF

Heavy damage.

Armament works.

7 July 15th AF

Foundry, shop & other bldgs damaged.

Bergamo

96. Dubnica

?

97. Torpedo Factory Fiume

24,25 Feb Construction & testing of torpedos.!sth AF

damage.

Large bldg damaged.

98. Officine

Armament works.

13

99. Breda

Small arms works.

17/18

Sept Med. AF

3 workshops severely

13 Jan 43

Moderate damage.

10/11 May

2 bldgs damaged.

9/10

Motor cycle factory & foundry severely damaged.

Meccaniche Modena Brescia

#

Severe

100. Cie de Fives

Lille

Steel & heavy engineering.

May

15th AF

damaged.

Bth AF

RAF

101. Gnome & Rhone

Paris/

Gennevilliers

102. VereinStahlwerke Hamm

103*

Zarges & Co. Stuttgart

Foundry & stamping plant for motor cycle and aeroengine parts.

.

Engineering products

.

Light metals products

Large workshop

23

Bth

AF

destroyed.

1/2

?!ar

Destroyed.

2/3

RAF

104. Knoevengel

Machinery foundry,

31 Jan Bth AF

Main bldg damaged.

105. Gebr Bayer

Engineering.

25/26

Feb

Severe damage.

25/26

Feb

Severe damage*

Hannover

•

May

RAF

Augsburg

106. Masch,

RAF Engineering.

KleindienstAugsburg

107. Gutehoffnung Duisburg/

RAF Engineering,

Moderate damage.

Jan RAF

Sterkrade

s*

WK^Etm

*

/R*i \

%

yii «

i

'

**

1 1% &1* wU

•

£

s.j>"

Date o:

Attack

Importance

Target

VII. ARMAMENTS AND MISCELLANEOUS ENGINEERS

#

108, Lubeck Berliner

Small arms.

Maschinenbau

Damage

(continued)

25 Aug Bth AF

3

bldgs damaged.

Lubeck

.

109, Staatswerft. Lubeck

Armaments & engineering

25

Aug Bth AF

4. bldgs damaged & 1 small bldg destroyed

110,

Metal works.

Jan RAF

Severe damage.

Agric, machinery

Jan

Moderate damage.

Jurst & Co. Berlin/Treptow

111. H. Eckert

Berlin/ Lichtenburg

RAF

<

112, Neve

Effzet

Motors •

Berlin/

Jan

Moderate damage.

RAF

Lichtenburg

113. Strebelwerke Berlin/Templehof

Heating engineers.

Jan RAF

Moderate damage.

IH. Feldhahn

Steel pipes.

Jan

Moderate damage.

Berlin/T emplehof

#

115

\u26 6

116,

Deutsche

Engineering*

Timken Berlin/ Templehof

Lahir. Gawron

Jan

Moderate damage.

RAF Light engineering

Berlin/Neukoln 117. Danneburg-Quandt

RAF

Jan

Moderate damage.

RAF Engineering.

Berlin/

Jan

Moderate damage.

RAF

Lichtenburg

118. Piechatzek Berlin/Wedding

Lifts & cranes.

119. Pfeiffer

Coaches*

Jan RAF

Moderate damage*

Machinery repair

Jan RAF

Moderate damage.

121. Henning & Orth Berlin/Kruezberg

Valve taps & wire.

Jan RAF

Moderate damage.

122. A. Salinger Berlin/Kruezberg

Castings,

Jan RAF

Moderate damage.

123. Gara

MT repair.

Feb

Severe

Moderate damage.

RAF

Berlin/Mitte 120. A. Meyer

Jan

Berlin/Horst Wessel

•

Autogaragen

Berlin/Schoneberg

damage.

RAF •\u25a0*\u25a0.

\u25a0?& "\u25a0•'\u25a0•>.

•t

|| :;v^l r

B^S^'*

;"J '

*m

m>

m

_,

MEW Rating

Importance

Target

>«|i^.

Date of Attack

Damage

4/5

Slight

VIII.MACHINE TOOLS & PRECISION INSTRUMENTS

#

1. Collet &

Machine tools.

2

2. Unternehumngen

Precision tools

2

RAF

Englehard Frankfurt

.

Cameras & instruments

2

4. 4. Voight & Haffner Rangefinders. Frankfurt

2

3. I.G. Farben Munich

.

Optical instru-

5. Askania 5. Berlin <

ments

7. Wohlenburg

Machine tools.

.

9. 9. Off. Borletti Milan

«

2 2

Oct *43

Slight

4/5

Oct '43

Moderate

l/2Mar'43

Slight

1/2

Moderate

RAF

Mar

3

23/24 RA.F 27/28

3

July

.

Moderate Sept

'43 Slight Moderate

'43

RAF

Aug

RAF

I*

'43

RAF

7/8

Precision instruments

tools, LO. Schiess Defries Machine tools, magnetic mines* Dusseldorf

Moderate.

RAF

Hanover

8. 8. Bauer & Schuarte Precision inHamburg struments

Aug'43

2/3

RAF

\

Optical instru6. Askania Berlin/Stegli,tz ments «

•

23/24

RAF

& instruments.

Berlin

Oct'43

43

Moderate

11/12 June'43-Moderate \u25a0RAF

Nov 3/4 RAF

22/23

'43 -Moderate

April

Severe damage

RAF

tools, Machine tools, 11., Deutsche castings, gun Industrie Berlin/Spandau components.

.2. Naxos Union

Grinding wheels.

Moderate damage

Jan.

RAF 1

4/5

Oct

RAF

Frankfurt Frankfurt

'43

29 Jan. Bth AF 4 Feb. Bth AF 3- Meier and Weichelt

-

Tools and abrasives

1

Machine tools *

2

19/20

Feb,

-Slight

-Moderate damage -Moderate damage

- Moderate

damage

RAF

Leipzig

#

4. Deutsche Niles 4.

Berlin/Weissensee Berlin/Weissensee

Jan.

-Slight damage.

RAF

.

A

fSP^ ra W

fa

si

Target

Importance

Rating

Damage

Attack

VIII. MACHINE TOOLS & PRECISION INSTRUMENTS (continued)

#-

15. Raboma-

Drilling machines

2

Berlin/Reinicken­ dorf

Berlin/Tiergarten

17, Fritz Werner

'

Dec 43 -Severe

RAF Jan. RAF

Maschinen

16. L.Lowe

16/17

Machine tools -ffire control equipment

2

.

1/2

Slight damage

Mar

RAF

'43 -t-Moderate Slight

dan.

RAF

Machine tools

2­

6 Aug Bth AF

Grinding machinery measuring instru­ ments.

2

25

Berlin/Mar j.en­

Serious damage to power plant, heat treatment shops, main work shop, foundry & pump house.

felde

18, Fortuna Werke

Stuttgart

•

19. J.C.Eckhardt Stuttgart

Measuring instru- 2 ments, AC instru­

ments. 20 * Elektronmetall Fortuna Stuttgart

Feb,

Moderate damage.

Bth AF

'

M/15

Apr

20/21

Feb.

RAF

43 -Moderate Moderate damage.

RAF

Grinding machines gauges.

21. Bauer & Schaurte~ • Small machine Neuss tools. (Also bolts and

2

1/2

Moderate damage.

Mar.

RAF

2

Severe damage.

5 Jan.

Bth AF

screws)

22:. Deutsche Norton ' Abrasives

2

23* Hommelwerke

Mannheim/

.

Precision tools & 2 instruments

Kafertal

24. Discus Werke

Grinding wheels

2

Frankfurt

1

#

26. Fontaine & Co. Frankfurt

3 bldgs. damaged.

July

14 Aug.

Large main bldgs. probably work­ shops, all seriously dama­ ged.

Bth AF

12/13

Sept

Moderate damage.

12/13

Sept.

Slight damage

25/26

Nov. '43-Moderate

12/13

Sept.

RAF

25. Hartman u.Braun Precision instru- 3 Frankfurt

18/19 RAF

Vfesseling

ments

.

Grinding wheels

RAF

3

RAF RAF

4

.

bldgs. damaged.

, -I**?

t

Target

*

Importance

Ratine

Attack

f

'" ,

\

J

*-*^

Damage

VIII. MACHINE TOOLS & PRECISION INSTRUMENTS (continued)

27. Glidemeister Bielefeld

Precision grinding 3 machinery, lathes,

30

Sept Bth AF

Severe damage.

30 Sept. Bth AF

Slight damage.

20 July Bth AF

3 large bLdgs. damaged, 2 small sheds destroyed,

etc.

28. Droop & Rein

Machine tools

3

Bielefeld

29? Leitz

Optical instruments

1

Wetzlar

& damaged. Optical instruments 30. Zeiss Ikon Berlin/Steglitz

112

2

.

Jan Mar » RAF

-Mode rate damage •

I

MEW Importance

Target

Date of Attack

Rating

Damage

IX ELECTRICAL EQUIPMENT

#

1. Siemens Berlin

Shuckert Motors & electrical

1

equipment.

23/24 16/17

Aug '43 Moderate Dec '4-3 Slight

16/17

Dec 43 Moderate

RAF

2. Bergmann Elektrizitats

Turbines 3 dynamos

1

etc.

'

RAF

'

Berlin

3. Blaupunkt Berlin

Wireless equipment

1/2 Mar 43 -Moderate 16/17 Oct'43 Slight

2

RAF 4« Siemens Schuckert Nuremburg 5. Felten & Guilleaume Cologne

Motors ; elec

1

Cables

1

1

Cologne

m

Oct'43

3/4

July 43

Slight

3/4

July' 43

Severe

1/2

Oct'43

Moderate

'

Moderate

RAF

6. Gottfried Hagen Submarine batteries 7. Accumulatoren Fabrik

8/9

RAF

equipment

RAF

Batteries, equipment

1

RAF

Hagen

8. Hackethal Draht Equipment, cables

27/28 18/19

2

Sept'43Slight

RAF

Hanover

Oct'43 Slight

RAF

9. Messer & Co,

Welding apparatus

2

4/s Oct'43 EAF

Elec. equipment

2

13/14

Frankfurt

10. Carbe la Mayer Aachen 11* Johann Sauerland Hamburg 12. Vorwerk & Co. Wuppertal

Armatures Cables & filaments

13. Rheinische Werk Cables

2/3

3

Aug

f

43

Severe

RAF

29/30

3

May 43 Moderate

RAF

3/4

3

July

RAF

Cologne

#

July 43 Moderate

"RAF

\

14. Brown Bovari Milan

Moderate

'43 Severe

14/15 Feb 43 -Moderate 7/8 Aug f43 -Moderate

Transformers &

RAF

motors

RAF

15. Fabr. Elettrici Milan

14/15

Telephone & radio equip.

RAF

ew &>»

rL

*«R

Feb 43 Slight

'gfapy XflBP"9

Wf

Hating

Importance

Target

Date at

Attack

Damage

IX ELECTRICAL EQUIPMENT (continued)

#

Telephone cables

16. I.V.T.

Elec. equipment

12/131

July£>Moderate

12/13

July43-Moderate

bai

Turin

18. Off.Mess. Emn.

July 43-Moderate

IAF

Turin

17. B.O.Auguste

12/13

Elec. machinery

RAF

Turin

19. A.E.G. Cable Works

Electric cables

,

Moderate damage.

1-f Jan RAF

transformer

Berlin/Kopenick casings.

Slight damage.

Jan RAF

20. Accumulatoren Fabrik

Accumulators.

1+

21. Siemens Kabel Werke

Cables & Wires.

X+ 16/17

Berlin/Kopenick Jan RAF

Berlin/Spandau

•

Jan'43-Slight -Moderate damage.

22. Siemens & Halske Dynamos, mo tors, telegraph equip. Berlin/Spandau

1+

23/24 RAF 16/17

Aug1 43 -Moderate

Dec 1 43 -Moderate

RAF Jan RAF

23.

A.E.G,

Kabelwerke Electrical equipment.

1

Be rlin/Ober spree

24. C.Lorenz

Berlin/

Wireless, blind

Severe damage, 12 factory sec­ tions damaged.

17/18

Jan'43-Slight

RAF 21 June Bth AF 1

landing equipment.

Jan

Moderate damage.

RAF

'

Templehof

25. Telefunken

Wireless & RDF.

Severe damage.

'

1

Berlin/

17/18

Jan 43 Moderate

RAF Jan RAF Mar

Steglitz

-Moderate damage. -Moderate damage.

RAF

26. Osram

Berlin/Horst

Light & radio tubes

1

Wireless, switch gear.

1

Slight damage.

Jan RAF

Wessel

27. A.E.G.Apparate Berlin/Treptow

#

Slight damage.

Jan RAF

Telephone & 28. Deutsche Telephonewerke- electrical equipu-Kabel ment

ment. Berlin/Treptow

1

21 June

Severe damage.

Bth AF

111 1111 \« 114

k /, 05268,AF 'h- JJ

Target

Rating

Importance

Attack

Damage

Large main bldgs probably workshops, all seriously damag­ ed.

IX. ELECTRICAL EQUIPMENT (continued)

#

29, Brown

Bovari

Mannheim/

Heavy electrical

1

14

Glass for radio

2

16/17 Jan'43-Moderate f

equipment ,

Aug Bth AF

Kafertal

30. Osram

Berlin/

23/24

tubes.

Aug

RAF Jan RAF

Spandau /

31. Elektro Thermit Welding

Berlin/

2

Apparatus

Electric tools, mot or s,access orie s

32. A.E.G.

,

Stuttgart

Slight damage

• Jan

-Moderate damage.

RAF 7 May Bth AF

Templehof 2

1/2

43~Severe

-Heavy damage.

Mar

Slight damage

RAF

etc.

12/13

Sept* -Severe damage.

12/13

Slight damage.

12/13

Severe damage.

RAF

•

Telephones

33. National

2

Telephone

Sept RAF

Frankfurt 34. Telefon Frankfurt

Telephones

35, Cassirer

Electric cables

& Co.

2

Sept RAF

Berlin/

3

Charlottenburg

23/24

Aug'43-Moderate

RAF Jan

Moderate damage.

RAF

36. GEM

Wireless equipment

3

Jan RAF

Moderate damage.

37. Voight &

Electrical apparatus

3

12/13

Damage

to 1 bldg.

38. Siemens &

Intercommunications

6 Aug Bth AF

Damage

to

Berlin/ Kopenick

Haeffner Frankfurt Halske

& range

finders.

equipment*

Sept RAF

Berlin/

& workshops.

Marienfelde

39. Radio Fcty

3

machine shops, 2 stores bldgs,

Radio equipment.

Weimar

24

Aug Bth AF

»

- 11l -

«»a\a^*^

Moderate damage*

\

*" fid <sgsP Tar,

:et

Imi 'ortance

MEW

of

Date of

Ratini

Attack Attack

SZ&? rt*

j[

f|

\

Dama :e

;lectrical EQUIPMENT (continued) C. ELECTRICAL b

#

4.0. Ganz 4.0. Budapest

Electrical-. & other

27 June

.engineering.

15th

AF

-Damage to 2 small components mfg shops long

,

unidentified bldg.

41.Alsthom

Electrical equipment

Paris/

17 Sept 15th AF

-Moderate damage.

9/10

-^Severe damage.

May

RAF

Gennevilliers

42. Hazemayer 42. Heboelo

Nordd,Kabel­ 43* Nordd,Kabel43*

Electrical equipment artillery predictors.

Cables

Jan RAF

Moderate damage.

Jan RAF

Moderate damage.

Cable & wire.

Jan RAF

Moderate damage.

Batteries

Jan

Moderate damage.

Primus -Tract oren Electric tractors.

Berlin/

Lichtenberg

45. Rinne Motoren

Berlin/

Lichtenberg

46.

Vogei Draht

Berlin/

.

Moderate damage

Berlin/Neukolln

•

-Moderate damage*

Jan RAF

worke

44.

18 Mar T.A.F.

Electric tractors. '

.

Treptow

47.

Pertrix

Chemische

RAF

Berlin/ Treptow

48. Telefunken

Berlin/

Research Labs.

Jan

Moderate damage.

RAF

Kruizberg

•

rt;.f!f '' "" • U !\

« l-.»

C5-5268,AF

116

V-

Importance

Target

X. METALS

#

Rating

Damage

Attack

- STEEL k NON-FERROUS

1. Bochumer Verein

Steel & armaments

13/14

1

RAF

Gusstahl Fabrik

Bochum/Alvee

May f 43-Moderate

12 Aug '4-3 Bth AF

Str

-Severe

29/30

Sept'43-Moderate

13/14

May'43. -Moderate

RAF

Verein Steel forgings Stahlindustrie castings, etc. Bochum/Altee Str.

2, Bochumer

1

29/30

Sept'43-Moderate

RAF

.

3« Eisen & Huttenwerke Steel &steel products Bochum/N.E.

1

12 /13 June r 43 Mode rate 29/30 Sept '4-3 Moderate RAF

1

29/30

' '

Slight

11/12 June 4-3

'

Moderate

U/15

June

Slight

products

22/23

June 43

RAF

Rolled & cast steel, 2

11/12

1 \

4. Bochumer Verein Steel & steel Werk Hontrop

products.

RAF

Sept 43 Moderate

Bochum/W

•

5. Verein Stahlwerk Steel & steel products. Gelsenkirchen

6. Gutehoffnungs

RAF

Steel, forgoings, bombs 1

7. Verein Stahlwerk Steel & steel products Oberhausen

2

8. Ver.Stahl

2

9. Krieger Stahlwerke Dusseldorf

Steel & steel

RAF

& steel products.

Steel & steel products.

3

11. Bochumer Verein Weitmar Bochum/S E

Steel 8c steel products.

3

12. Kupferhutte Hamburg

Copper refinery

2

Sieg Hamburg

Aluminum castings

2

13 H. \u26 6

14. Zink

Industrie Duis burg

1

43

'

Moderate

June 43

'

Slight

12/13

May'43

Moderate

13/14

May '43

Moderate

RAF

10. Verein Stahlwerke Duis burg/Ruhr ortMeiderich

..

July 43

RAF

Dusseldorf

Wilhelms Mulheim

#

9/10

1

RAF

RAF

.

July RAF

'43

2/3

Aug'43

Slight

Moderate

RAF Zinc & sulphuric acid

3

12/13

May'43

Moderate

RAF

268, AF 117

•

#

x

-

Target

METALS

Importance

- STEEL &. NON-FERROUS

MEW

Date of

Rating

Attack

(continued)

'

/

15. I.G.Farben Heroya

16. Soc.Trefilene

Magnesium & Aluminum

24 July 43 Bth AF

Aluminum goods

12/13

Turin

RAF

7/8

17. S.A. Tra Filerie Non-ferrous metal Milan products

18. Thyssen Hutte Duisburg/ Hamborn

•

Damage

Severe

'

July 43 Moderate

Aug'43

Moderate

RAF

Steel (1,700,000 tons /year) & heavy engineering.

1+

12/13

Jan RAF

May'43--31ight -Large finishing mill 1/3 destroy-^ Ed, rolling mill damaged

.

I^/13

19. Hermann Goring Iron & steel. (2,000,000 tons/ Works year) Brunswick/

14

20. Fr.Krupp Duisburg/

1+ 21/22

Damage to ore preparation bldgs & rolling mills.

Aug

HAF

HaUendorf

Rheinhausen

Steelworks

(1,300,000 tons per year) & steel

Moderate damage.

May RAF

products.

21. Mannesmann

Duisburg/

Kuckingen

22. Verein Stahlwerke

Duisburg/

Steel (900,000 tons/ year) Tubes for A/G?

1

Steel (400,000 tons pig iron per year)

1

21/22

May

Moderate damage.

RAF

gun barrels, etc.

22/23 June'43-Moderate

Mar,.

Moderate damage

RAF

Mulheim

23. Verein Stahlwerk Steel (1,600,000 Duisburg/ tons /year) Rolled Ruhrort

1

- Slight

21/22

May

21/22

May

-Moderate damage.

21/22

May

-Slight damage.

21/22

May

-Slight damage.

damage.

RAF

products.

24. Verein

Stahlwerke Neid. Steel (300,000 tons/ 2 & rolled products.

Duisburg/Hochfeld year

RAF

25. Verein Stahlwerke Steel (200,000 3 Duisburg/Hochfeld tons /year) AlloysteeL

RAF

26. Verein Stahlwerke Steel(l60,000 Duisburg/Huckingen tons /year)

RAF

3

tubes & mill equipment.

# 27, Verein Stahlwerke

Steel (1,000,000 tons /year)

1

Dortmund/West

4/5 May '43 22/23 May

-Moderate -Slight damage.

RAF

1

$

% 118

t^l %

•v /--0^ si, fa

*•

Importance

Target

#

x

METALS

- STEEL & NON-FERROUS

Ratine

(continued)

Steel (1,250,000 tons /year) & steel products

28. Hoesch A.G.

1

.

Dortmund

Damage

Attack

'

4/5 May 43 -Moderate RAF 23/24 May T43~Moderate RAF 22/23 May -Slight damage. \u25a0

RAF 12 Sept RAF

29. Guttehoffnungs Oberhaiisen

30. Vereinigte

Huttenwerke Saarbrucken

31. Klocknerwerice

•

Osnabruck

-Severe damage to mill & 12 smaller bldgs

.

Steel (1,200,000 tons /year )Rolled products.

1

Jan RAF

Multibay bldg. severely damaged.

Pig iron,steel, armor plate, forgings,etc.

1

23

fey Bth AF

Moderate damage.

Steel (Est

2

13

tons/

850,000

May

-Damage to rolling mills,press hop, foundry, & other bldgs. -Damage to foundry & press shops. -Roof damage to rolling mill. -Allmajor bldgs damaged.

Bth AF

year) forgings & steel products.

31 May Bth AF 13 SeptBth AF 26 Sept Bth AF 32. Deutsche Rohren-werke Dusseldorf

Steel (350,000 tons /year) Tubes,

2

11/12 June'43-Moderate 3/4 Nov. f43 -Moderate 22/23 Apr ..-Moderate •

etc.

RAF Pig iron- capacity 140,000 '"Cons/year.

33. Budernsische Eisenwerke Wetzlar

19 Sept Bth AF

Alloy steels, gun 7 shell & tank com­ ponents

3

19

Metal foundry for copper

3

Jan RAF

Zinc refining. Also sulphuric acid.

2

12/13 26/27

-

34. Stahlwerke

.

Rochling Buderus Wetzlar

35. Huttenwerke Kayser

•

3

Sept Bth AF

Kopenick

Bergbau Essen

fur

-Damage

to 1 bldg.

Slight damage.

Berlin/

36. Altenburgs

Damage to nearly all bldgs.

Mar

'

43

-Slight. Moderate

lifer t

M9 119

-

C5-526>8,AF

damage*

"

__ MEW Target

4g|

X METALS

37. Goldschmidt 37. Essen

38.

Importance

- STEEL & NON-FERROUS

Rating

Lead & tin smelting* bearing metals.

2

.-»

fr

Damage

'

5/6

"\u25a0*

.

Mar 43 26/27 Mar

-Moderate Moderate damage.

12/13

-Unidentified bldg. & rolling mill damaged. -Minor damage.

RAF 2 2

Apr, RAF

,

13 Sept

etc.

40.

Date of Attack

(continued)

Kupfer v Draht^Copper refining, Copper & aluminum werk products including Osnabruck shell cases, fuses,

RAF

Zinc refining; nonnon­ metal ferrous # products

2

Duisburg

Vereinigte Deutsche Metallwerke

rollBrass & copper roll­ ing mills ; copper foundry.

2

Duisburg Kupferhutte

Copper zinc & lead

39. Berzelius 39.

-

v

.

21/22

May

-Slight damage.

21/22

May

—Moderate damage.,

21/22

May

-Moderate damage

22/23 12/13

Mar

-Moderate damage.

Sept

-2 medium bldgs destroyed & 3 damaged.

RAF

RAF

Duisburg/ Hochfeld

•

a.

,

2

refining.

RAF

Duisburg/ Hochfeld 42. Deutscher 42. Gold & Silber Scheideanstalt

2.

Precious metal refining

RAF

RAF

Frankfurt

43. 43. S.A.V.A. (Montecatini)

9/10

Alumina & aluminum.

Porto Maghera

June

15th AF

-Damage to main bldg, workshop, & unidentified bldg.

6 July 15th AF

-Considerable new damage.

*>

\

»

t

i

C5~5268,AF 120

.

\

Target

W Date o: Rating Attack

Importance

Damage

XI CHEMICALS AND EXPLOSIVES

1. Gebr, Guilini Aluminum salts. Mannheim 2. J. P. Bemberg 2. Wuppertal

Dyes & rayon.

3. Zellstoff 3.

Cellulose.

1 1

Heavy

2

chemicals.

•

Chemicals

Heroya ?

.0» Rjuken .0»

.1. I,G, F?rben .1. Ludwigshafen

23/24

Sep 43-Slight.

12/13

May 43-Slight.

.

2

,

2

Dec 43 Bth AF

3

20/21

Chemicals

Fertilizers & chemicals

- Moderate.

16/17 43

June RAF

Slight.

Apr 43-Destroyed

RAF

#

Special paints.

3

Hamburg

9. I.G, Farben 9.

May 43-Moderate.

RAF

Chemische Hamburg

7. Chemische 7. Fabriken Stettin 8. Jon. Jeserich 8.

29/30

43-Moderate.

RAF

RAF

Cologne

6. Norddeutsche 6.

Apr

«

Duisburg

5. Fabrik Kalk

16/17 RAF

Fabrik Mannheim

4. Henkel & Cie

1

2/3

Aug

RAF

Chemic als (als o magnesium &

24 July 43 Bth AF

Chemicals & fertilizers.

16 Nov 43

.

Aluminum)

- Moderate,

43

- Severe, Moderate,

Bth AF

Dyestuffs, heavy

1+

synthe­ chemicals } synthetic oil, synthetic rubber.

16/17 Apr 43-Moderate. 23/24 Sep 43-Moderate. 4/5 Oct 43 Slight. 18/19 Nov 43-Slight,

RAF

11 Feb Bth AF

26/27 May 22/23 May 28/29 .May RAF

14 Aug Bth^AF

#

­

4 workshops & styrene

plant damaged.

Slight damage, Minor damage. Serious damage to gas works, heavy chemical & dyestuffs plants. Heavy damage to

-

--

-

plastics, dyestuffs & heavy chemical sections, experimen­ tal synthetic oil plant, main storage areas & experimental

Liglsp sf|, *,1 to^j^rogW^ * '-*

laboratories,

damage

methspjiai^

121

oXarit*

*

r>

-Target

iS

Importance

Rating Attack

11. I. G. Farben t

Ludwigshafen

(continued)

1+ Dyestuffs, heavy chemicals, synthe­ tic oil, synthetic rubber.

8 Sept Bth AF

13 Sept Bth AF 27 Sept Bth AF

12, I,G,

Farben

1

Chemicals.

Leverkusen

19/20

'.odZ'S

- Damage

to workshop & stores area; heavy chemicals, inter­

mediate dyestuffs butanol, caustic soda & warehouse damaged. Severe damage.

- Moderate

damage.

Nov 43-SlighU

RAF

6/7 May R*F

•

•

\u25a0

Damage

XI. CHEMICALS AND BXPOSIVSS (continued)

<|^

•\u25a0

Date of

Several bldgs damaged, including phosgene

plant.

13. E. Merck

Darmstadt

Chemicals,

includ- 1 ing Pharmaceuticals & hydrogen peroxide.

19 July

Several bldgs damaged.

14. Experimental Station

Chemicals -hydrogen 1 peroxide. Also

18 July Bth AF

Peenemunde

research.

Electrostatic hydrogen peroxide plant & elliptical earthwork

Bth AF

U Aug Bth AF 25 Aug Bth AF

15. Elektro­

chemische

Munich/

& concentration bldgs of electrolytic plant. Electrostatic plant 1/2 destroyed.

Chemicals,

include 2 ing hydrogen peroxide.

19 July Bth AF

Large .group of bldgs including old hydrogen peroxide plant destroyed.

Chemicals includ- 2 ing hydrogen peroxide.

19 July

Heavy damage

probably rendered

inactive.

Hollriegels­ kreuth

16, Linde's Eis­ maschinen

- damaged. Electrolytic hydrogen plant damaged. - peroxide Damage to production

Munich/Hollriegel­

Bth AF

kreuth

17. Lindes Eismas chinen

Chemicals-hydrogen peroxide •

2

16 Aug 15th AF

Friedrichshafen/ Oberraderach

#

18. Kalle & Co. Wiesbaden

19. Rohn & Haas

Cellulose, dyes,

2

19 S ept Bth AF

Considerable damage.

2

19 Sept Bth AF

Half djesfctP^ed

paper. Chemicals,

Darmstadt

**>

- 122 -

Severe damage to

hydrogen plant,

oxygen plant, 3 un­ identified bldgs & finishing plant.

'\u25a0•'\u25a0. ii >^'-

- "'^

" I

•"• v, >

>

0.3^ V-% °

Importance

Target

»

XI. CHEMICALS

20.

AM) EXPLOSIVES

Raschig Ludwigshafen

21« Knoll

(continued

Synthetic phenols

Pharmaceutecals

Ludwigshafen

22. Griesheim

Elektran

.

.

2

9/10

-

acids, 2 Chemicals fertilizers; etc.

-^^

Aug 43- Slight.

- 2 large

RAF 11 Feb Bth AF 27 May ath AF 2

:

Damage"

Rating Attack

­

bldgs damaged.

Damage to large bldg

& storage tanks.

- several

27 May Bth AF

bldgs damaged.

- Moderate

22/23

Mar

16/17

Dec 43-Moderate damage.

damage.

RAF

Frankfurt

23. Schering

Berlin/

,

Chemicals

2

RAF

Kopenick

Jan RAP

24. I.G. Farben

Heavy Chemicals.

2

Frankfurt

25. Henkel

Dusseldorf/

#

Reisholz

29 Jan

- Moderate

damage.

- Moderate

damage.

Bth AF Chemicals, includ- 3 ing soap & hydrogen

20/21

May

21/22

Jan

Slight damage.

RAF

peroxide. peroxide.

26, Lignose Spreng-Dynamite & mining explosives. stoffwerke Schonebeck

3

- Severe

damage.

/

RAF

V

27. Kali-Chemie Berlin 28. Chemischewerke Albert

Chemicals. Chemicals &

Pharmaceuticals

,

3

21 June Bth AF

Moderate damage.

3

19 Sept Bth AF

Severe damage.

Wiesbaden

29. Hauff A. G. Stuttgart

Nitric acid, films 3 & photographic

chemicals 30,

Kurmarkische Zellwolle

.

Viscose staple fiber

3

Wittenburge

31. Spinnstoff Fpbr.ik

Berlin/Steglitz

%

32. Spinnfaser Kassel

12/13

Sep

- Moderate

6 Mpr 18 Apr

Large warehouses, stores & sheds destroyed*

Bth AF

Artificial silk and wool.

3

Jan RAF

Textile yarns 3 from staple fiber..

3/4

Moderate damage.

43 ~ Moderate*

-

Oct

RAF 19 Apr Bth AF

\u0084

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damage.

RAF

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bldgs

to 3 large

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Importance

Target

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Rating Attack

Damage

XI. CHEMICALS AND EXPLOSIVES (continued)

20/21 Apr

34. Bollig & Kemper Dyestuffs

6 Mar Bth AF

2 large bldgs destroyed.

Tar, chemicals,

.

6 Mar

explosives

Bth AF

More than half of all bldgs destroyed; large bldg damaged, 3 gasholders destroys cd.

,

19/20

35. Bakelite

Raw materials for plastics.

36. Rutgerswerke

37. Schultz Leipzig

Chemicals

38. Didier Werke

Catalysts,

Berlin/Erkner

Feb

RAF

Stettin Synthetic resin.

Kunstharz

- Severe

damage.

5/6 Jan

- Moderate

25/26

- Severe

RAF

39. Augsburg er

damage.

RAF

Cologne

Berlin/Erkner

- Severe

Feb

damage.

damage*

RAF

Augsburg

Chemicals

40, Riedel and

#

RAF

Berlin/Neukolln 41. Chemische

Chemicals

Grunau

Berlin/Kopenick 42. Remmlerwerke

Berlin/Treptow

Chemicals

.

Jan RAF

Moderate

.

Jan

Moderate damage.

43. Pouderie Nat'l Explosives Angouleme

.

Salbris

-

46. Pouderie Nat'l

20/21 Mar

Severe

18/19

Severe damage.

damage..

RAF

Bergerac

45. Pouderie Nat'l Explosives

damage.

RAF

44. Pouderie Nat'l Explosives.

St.. Medard en Jailes

Moderate damage.

Jan

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De Haen

Mar

RAF

.

7/8

May

Larger of 2 factory units practically devastated 5 »0f 9 storage areas damag­ ed •

RAF

Largest of 4 French explosive factories, produces finished propellents.

29/30

Apr

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47. Pouderie Nat'l

1/2

Nitro-c^llulose

Toulouse

48. C. de Mines Henin-Lietard

May

RAF Coking ovens & chemical plant.

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damaged

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Chief of Air 'Staff Management Control Att: Operations Analysis Div. Att: Statistical Control Div.

AC/AS, AC/AS, Attj

AC/AS,

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CG, Eleventh Air Force

Training

Att: A-2

- Att: A-2 Air Force Att: A-2

CG, Twelfth Air Force OC&R Ass't for Air Forces

CG,

Plans

CG, Fifteenth Air Force

Fourteenth

-

Att: A-2

- Att: A-2

A C of S, G-2

CGr, Twentieth Air Force

Operations Division, WDGS

Chief of Staff, Twentieth Air Force Att"; Colonel Hewitt

Att: Colonel Lanphier

Special Ass't for Anti-Aircraft Office of Information Services AFSAT Att: Central Library Att: Major Derby Att: Intelligence Officer

Air Force Editorial Office Att: Lt Col Straubel

SHASF

-

Att: G-2

U.S. Strategic Air Forces in Europe Att: Director of Intelligence CG, Continental Air Forces

Att: Intelligence Section CG, AFPOA

Att: Director of Intelligence (2 cys)

- Att: Intel. Sect, - Att. Intel. Sect CG, Second Air Force - Att. Intel. Sect, CG, Third Air Force CG, Fourth Air Force - Att. Intel, Sect CG, First Air Force

CG,

Ist East Air Force Att: A-2 (3 cys)

CG, Sixth Air Force CG, Eighth Air Force

- Att: A-2

-

Att: A-2

CG, Ist Tactical Air Force (Prov) Att;

A-2

CG, Mediterranean Allied Air Force Att: A-2 CG, XXBomber Command

- Att: A-2

CG, XH Bomber Command

Air Technical Service Command

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CO, AAF Indiar-Burma Theatre Att; Intel. Section (2 cys)

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Att: A-2

- Att: A-2 Wing (VH) Att; A-2 Wing (VH) Att: A-2 Wing (VH) Att: A-2

CG, XHI Bomber Command CG, 314th Bomb CG, 315th Bomb CG, 316th Bomb

MI, Air Intelligence Group

Att: OP-16-V

Command and General Staff School Att: Library Joint Army-Havy Staff College Att: Library TJ»S. Strategic Bombing Survey (2

cys)

U.S. Military Mission, Moscow, USSR British Joint Staff Mission Att: G/C Dußoulay

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Army War College Att: Records Section

Joint Intelligence Staff." Att: Colonel Moss*- \

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Office of Strategic Services Att; Intelligence |dai son Officer

Bureau of

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s?ubls^Eelations

Att: Air Fb&es Group

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Intelligence, Joint Target firoup Att: Capt. Merner

AC/ASt

Intelligence, Administrative

Depoty, Historical Division

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AO/AS, Intelligence, Operational Deputy

T & T Branch (IIiPACT)

Intelligence* Collection Division -> Colonel McOuire

AC/AS*

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