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Wednesday
September 28, 2022
(61,326 Views) | | Up Above the Clouds to Die: The Kassel Mission of September 27, 1944 |
Up Above the Clouds to Die: The Kassel Mission of September 27, 1944
Wednesday, September 28 @ 6:30 PM
Bristol Public Library
About this event
IN ONE OF THE MOST DRAMATIC AERIAL BATTLES OF WORLD WAR II...
Thirty-five 445th Bomb Group B-24 Liberators and 336 men who make up their crews, suffered the greatest single-day loss to a group from one airfield in aviation warfare history, all within six minutes.
Twenty-five of the heavy bombers are downed inside of Germany’s borders; three crash land--two in France and one in Belgium; two make forced landings at an emergency field in England; and another crashes after it makes it home but is waved off to try again. All tolled, only four B-24s of the original thirty-five return safely to base at Tibenham.
117 airmen of the Mighty Eighth’s 445th are killed in action, 121 are taken prisoner, and only 98 are returned to duty.
--Kassel Mission Historical Society
Hosted by: author and oral historian, Aaron Elson.
RSVP: www.bristollib.com, 860.584.7787 x 3 or at the library
No charge. Followed by book signing. |
You Can Contact Us At: 860.584.7787 x 3
For More Information Visit Us At: www.bristollib.com |
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