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Geilenkirchen captured. Rain intervenes. Aftermath. Order of battle. Allied. German. References. External links. Operation Clipper. During the Second World War, Operation Clipper was an Allied offensive by the British XXX Corps (which included the American 84th Infantry Division) to reduce the Geilenkirchen salient in mid-November 1944.
Gelsenkirchen was a target of strategic bombing during World War II, particularly during the 1943 Battle of the Ruhr and the Oil Campaign. Three quarters of Gelsenkirchen was destroyed and many above-ground air-raid shelters such as near the town hall in Buer are in nearly original form.
The Battle of the Ruhr (5 March – 31 July 1943) was a strategic bombing campaign against the Ruhr Area in Nazi Germany carried out by RAF Bomber Command during the Second World War. The Ruhr was the main centre of German heavy industry with coke plants, steelworks, armaments factories and ten synthetic oil plants.
A principios del siglo XX Gelsenkirchen era la ciudad más importante de Europa en lo que a la minería del carbón se refiere. En esa época era conocida como la "ciudad de los mil fuegos" debido a la gran cantidad de columnas de humo que podían verse sobre ella. En 1928 Gelsenkirchen se fusionó con las ciudades vecinas de Buer y Horst.
18 de abr. de 2024 · The RAF launched 23,000 missions against the Ruhr alone. Dortmund's Hoesch steelworks were destroyed, and so were the synthetic oil refineries at Gelsenkirchen. So many factories were hit, Speer estimated German industrial production fell by 9%. In Germany as a whole, Speer estimated the loss in possible industrial production due to ...
15 de oct. de 2014 · 5 March to 24 June 1943 (some sources say the offensive went on until the Gelsenkirchen raid of 9/10 July) Theatre: Western Europe. Location: The Ruhr valley, Western Germany. Players: Air...
303 aircraft - 286 Lancasters and 17 Mosquitos of Nos 1, 3 and 8 Groups - carried out the first raid of the new oil campaign; the target was the Nordstern synthetic-oil plant at Gelsenkirchen (the Germans called the plant Gelsenberg AG). 17 Lancasters were lost, 6,1 percent of the Lancaster force.
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