17 Jul 1938

17 Jul 1938 Photos
Hanna Reitsch with a DFS Habicht glider during an air show at Waldau Airfield, Kassel, Germany, 17 Jul 1938Hanna Reitsch with Technical Director of Fieseler Erich Bachem during an air show at Waldau Airfield, Kassel, Germany, 17 Jul 1938
27 Aug 1942

Germany
  • 306 British bombers attacked Kassel, Germany, destroying 144 buildings, damaging 3 Henschel aircraft factories, killing 28 military personnel and 15 civilians, and wounding 64 military personnel and 187 civilians; 31 bombers were lost on this mission. On the same day, Soviet bombers attacked Königsberg, East Prussia, Germany (now Kaliningrad, Russia). ww2dbase [Bombing of Hamburg, Dresden, and Other Cities | Kassel, Kurhessen | CPC]
22 Oct 1943

Germany
  • Over Kassel, Germany, the Lancaster bomber aboard which Roberts Dunstan was a crew member was damaged by two incendiary bombs dropped by a friendly Lancaster bomber flying higher above; although the bomber was further damaged by German nightfighters, it was able to return to Britain, crash landing at Bisham, Berkshire, England, United Kingdom. ww2dbase [Bombing of Hamburg, Dresden, and Other Cities | Roberts Dunstan | Kassel, Kurhessen | CPC]



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