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Desperate Luftwaffe surprise attack

Desperate Luftwaffe surprise attack

1st January 1945: Operation Bodenplatte - a mass low-level attack on Allied airfields in France, Belgium and Holland - but the Germans suffer heavy losses

Jan 01, 2025
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A Douglas Dakota of RAF Transport Command, destroyed during the attack on B58/Melsbroek, Belgium, by Luftwaffe fighter-bombers (Operation BODENPLATTE), burns itself out in front of the hangars

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