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Schweinfurt is a Kreis (district) in the northwestern part of Bavaria, Germany. Neighboring districts are (from the north clockwise) Bad Kissingen, Rhön-Grabfeld, Haßberge, Bamberg, Kitzingen, Würzburg and Main-Spessart. The district-free city Schweinfurt is surrounded by the district.
Schweinfurt (in German literally ' swine ford') is a city in the Lower Franconia region of Bavaria in Germany on the right bank of the navigable Main River, which is spanned by several bridges here, 27 km northeast of Würzburg.
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He had to be given a direct order by the Air Ministry before he would attack the ball-bearing town of Schweinfurt in February 1944.
A second attack on Schweinfurt by 320 Fortresses on 14 October produced an equal loss.
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In their attack on the ball-bearing plants at Schweinfurt, which were vital to the German aircraft industry, the Americans had sixty of their large Fortress aircraft destroyed out of 291.
British Bomber Command should attack Schweinfurt by their own methods.
Compare, if you will, the statistics of World War Two against heavily defended targets such as Berlin, Schweinfurt, and Ploesti where losses ranged from ten percent to thirty percent on a single mission.
But, now, in the past months had come a rush of successes, with the Battle of the Ruhr, with news of the catastrophe at Hamburg just reaching England and, in the past week, the Americans, having carried out their first deep penetration raids of Germany when, on 17 August, following their directives faithfully, they had attacked the ball-bearing factories at Schweinfurt and the Messerschmitt factory at Regensburg.
This would be the first time Bomber Command had ventured into this part of Germany since the Luftwaffe inflicted such heavy losses in the fateful Leipzig raid more than a month earlier, but the Americans were planning a heavy raid on Schweinfurt during the day, and this, it was hoped, would draw much of the Luftwaffe down to Southern Germany.
First encountered in quantities over Schweinfurt by Flying Fortresses.
Franklin Reynolds, of this town, crossed the Cannon-Ball Cabbage on the Schweinfurt Quintal, by carefully transferring the pollen of the former on the latter, the stamens having first been removed, and immediately tying muslin around the impregnated blossoms to keep away all insects.
On August 17 the Eighth Air Force from England flew a mission to the Schweinfurt ball bearing plant and another to the aircraft plant at Regensburg.
The great raids on Schweinfurt, for example, designed to deprive German vehicles of ball bearings and thus bring their army to a standstill, caused some destruction and problems, but they were carried out at great risk and high cost and still hardly slowed Germany down.