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  • Bombing of Friedrichshafen in World War II
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  • Friedrichshafen lies in the Bodenseekreis district, on Lake Constance in the extreme south of Germany, and at the time it was at the edge of the German nightfighter defences. Targets included the Dornier Flugzeugwerke aircraft works at Manzell, the Maybach tank engine factory, the Luftschiffbau Zeppelin aircraft works and its Oberraderach test facility near Raderach, and the Zahnradfabrik Friedrichshafen (Literally "gearwheel factory Friedrichshafen") tank gearbox factory.
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Date
  • 1944
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  • right
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  • 25
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  • Luftwaffe
  • Fifteenth Air Force
  • RAF Bomber Command
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  • Friedrichshafen World War II bombings
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  • Friedrichshafen lies in the Bodenseekreis district, on Lake Constance in the extreme south of Germany, and at the time it was at the edge of the German nightfighter defences. Targets included the Dornier Flugzeugwerke aircraft works at Manzell, the Maybach tank engine factory, the Luftschiffbau Zeppelin aircraft works and its Oberraderach test facility near Raderach, and the Zahnradfabrik Friedrichshafen (Literally "gearwheel factory Friedrichshafen") tank gearbox factory. In February 1944 an underground factory at Immenstaad near Friedrichshafen was suspected of being a synthetic oil and/or liquid oxygen plant. |1944-10 Near Überlingen forced labor of KZ-Häftlinge im Goldbacher Stollen, KZ Nebenlager Raderach and the Aufkirch subcamp of Dachau concentration camp was used for constructing an underground facility for armament manufacturing (code name "Magnesit") safe from Allied air raids.