Operation Clarion
| Operation Clarion | |||||
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| Part of Combined Bomber Offensive | |||||
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| Belligerents | |||||
 RAF Bomber Command US Army Air Forces |
 Luftwaffe | ||||
| Strength | |||||
| 20,000 bombers and escort fighters.[1] | |||||
Main article: Combined Bomber Offensive
Operation Clarion was the extensive Allied campaign of Strategic bombing during World War II which attacked 200 German communication network targets[2]:217 to open Operation Veritable/Grenade.[1]
3,500 bombers and nearly 5,000 fighters attacked targets across Germany in effort to destroy all means of transportation available. Targets included "rail stations, barges, docks, and bridges."[3]:535
References
- 1 2 Bauer, Eddy (1972) [1966]. Illustrated World War II Encyclopedia. 15). H. S. Stuttman Inc. pp. 2059, 2068. ISBN 0-87475-520-4.
- ↑ Overy, Richard (2013). The Bombers and the Bombed: Allied Air War Over Europe, 1940-1945. New York: Viking. ISBN 978-0-670-02515-2.
- ↑ Atkinson, Rick (2013). The Guns at Last Light. New York: Henry Holt. ISBN 978-0-8050-6290-8.
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