![]() ![]() The 485 BG bombed the "Korneuburg Oil Storage".ī-24s bombed the oil refinery at Lobau. Archived at the Wayback Machineī-24s bombed the oil refinery at Korneuburg. The 484 BG received its second DUC for bombing an underground oil storage installation at Vienna. The 464 BG and 465 BG earned Distinguished Unit Citations, as the Heinkel-Süd plant in Floridsdorf was hit, destroying the third prototype of the He 177B four engined bomber, and possibly damaging the incomplete fourth prototype He 177B airframe. The 464 Archived at the Wayback Machine and 465th Bombardment Groups earned Distinguished Unit Citations. The Heinkel firm's Heinkel-Süd Schwechat aircraft factory, and Schwechat oil refinery were bombed. The 461 BG bombed "a refinery in the open country near the small town of Korneuburg". The Floridsdorf oil refinery and marshalling yard were bombed. An underground storage installation was just west of Mainz. ![]() ī-17s bombed the Floridsdorf oil refinery On this date the 464 BG bombed an oil-blending plant at Vienna.ī-17s bombed the Kagran oil refinery ī-24s bombed the oil refinery at Schwechat in Vienna (Schwechat became a separate city in 1954).ī-24s bombed the Winterhafen oil depot. The first American air raid on Vienna targeted the Floridsdorf refinery and mined the Danube. ![]() Petlyakov Pe-8 bombers flew a 3,200-kilometre (2,000 mi) round trip also reaching Budapest, Königsberg and Breslau List of raids Chronology Dateįirst air raid on Vienna during World War II In February and March 1945, 80,000 tons of bombs were dropped by US and British aircraft, destroying more than 12,000 buildings, and 270,000 people were left homeless. Bypasses for traffic junctions had been established before the bombings and traffic did not come to a halt until the very last days of the war.īy early 1945 Vienna had already faced 1,800 bombs. ![]() The military industry boosted its production, also by use of forced labour of concentration camp inmates and POWs. the Seegrotte near Hinterbrühl) or hidden in other ways. Some Vienna factories were moved to bomb-proof sites such as caves (e.g. However, roughly one-third of the bombers and escorts suffered heavy damage. During the night, this dropped to only one out of 145. During the day, one out of 125 planes was shot down on average. It typically took some 5,000 small-calibre and 3,400 large-calibre shells to bring down one bomber. Due to the increasing lack of fuel, by autumn 1944, artillery on the ground was the only defence against air raids. These were large anti-aircraft gun blockhouses built in the city. The air defences of Vienna were aided by a ring of anti-aircraft batteries set up around the city and three pairs of Flak towers. Remaining Luftwaffe shot down one-tenth of 550 bombers in June 1944. Following the Normandy Invasion the greater part of the German Air Force ( Luftwaffe) was transferred to the West. History Īfter a lone Soviet air raid conducted on 4 September 1942, Vienna was reached by western Allied bombers in 1944, when the Allied invasion of Italy allowed them to establish an air base at Foggia. Only 41 civilian vehicles survived the raids, and more than 3,000 bomb craters were counted. The city of Vienna in Austria was bombed 52 times during World War II, and 37,000 houses of the city were lost, 20% of the entire city. ![]()
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