World War II Diaries:The Complete War Report
1944 February
E54 Feb 11, 2018
Over 800 RAF bombers launch a night-time attack against the German city of Leipzig, which is followed in the morning by an air raid by the Eight US Air Force in what comes to be known as the Big Week, the carpet bombing of the major industrial centers of the Third Reich. The Big Week reaches its peak during an air raid by American bombers. Escorted by fighters, they carry out a day-time incursion against the Messerschmitt plants in Regensburg and Augsburg in Bavaria (Germany). During the operation 35 bombers and 8 Allied fighters are lost, but they shoot down 142 German fighters in the sky and a thousand more in the assembly line. At night two waves of RAF bombers wreck havoc yet again over Augsburg.