Diary April 24, 1944

04-1944, Diary WW2, War Diary, Year 1944 / 1 minute of reading

B-17 G emergency landing at Genf-Cointrin — Boeing B-17 G with a hit engine after emergency landing at Genf-Cointrin, Switzerland.

WW2 War Diary for Monday, April 24, 1944:

Air War

Germany: 8th US Air Force raids Friedrichshafen factories and airfields near Munich (55 planes lost, including 14 which land – more or less urgently – or crash in Switzerland).
250 Avro Lancaster bombers – flying across neutral Switzerland from Genf to Liechtenstein – scatter ‘Flying Meteor’ methane-petrol IBs over Munich, devastating wide area between Central Station and river Isar (night April 24-25).
Mediterranean: Italian ‘Co-Belligerent Air Force’ now operating regularly over the Adriatic.

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My name is Norman 'Kretaner' and since my childhood I am interested in history and strategy games. Later, I have learned programming and the development of computer games, and finally with the Internet, also web design. I'm in the fortunate position to combine all my interests with my work and to live on a place of my choice, on Crete. All information, figures, specifications and statistics used here had been compiled from a variety of sources and the large, over decades collected, library of the author about military history, WW2 and weapons.

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