Battling the enemy and the weather
Story by Sharon Adams
In March 1945, after cloudy weather foiled a February bombing raid, Allied air forces zealously attacked Chemnitz, a major German industrial centre, 260 kilometres south of Berlin, close to the Austrian border. It was a rail junction with one of the largest Nazi railway repair shops.
After a three-day attack on the marshalling yards by U.S. bombers, British Bomber Command carried out four successive nights of raids.
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