Operation Clarion
Part of Combined Bomber Offensive
Date22–23 February 1945
Location
Nazi Germany
Belligerents
RAF Bomber Command
US Army Air Forces		 Luftwaffe
Strength
20,000 bombers and escort fighters.[1]

Operation Clarion was a late-war campaign of the Allied strategic bombing of Germany. 200 German communication network targets were attacked[2]: 217  to open Operation Veritable/Grenade.[1]

3,500 bombers and nearly 5,000 fighters attacked targets across Germany in effort to destroy all means of transportation available. Targets included rail stations, barges, docks, and bridges.[3]: 535 

References

  1. 1 2 Bauer, Eddy (1972) [1966]. Illustrated World War II Encyclopedia. Vol. 15). H. S. Stuttman Inc. pp. 2059, 2068. ISBN 0-87475-520-4.
  2. ↑ Overy, Richard (2013). The Bombers and the Bombed: Allied Air War Over Europe, 1940-1945. New York: Viking. ISBN 978-0-670-02515-2.
  3. ↑ Atkinson, Rick (2013). The Guns at Last Light. New York: Henry Holt. ISBN 978-0-8050-6290-8.

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