Wiener Neustadt WWII bombings
| Wiener Neustadt World War II bombings | |||||
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 USAAF RAF Bomber Command
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 Luftwaffe
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Wiener Neustadt, a city in Austria, was the target of bombing raids during World War II by the Allies.
The targets in and around Wiener Neustadt included the marshalling yards, the Wiener Neustädter Flugzeugwerke (WNF) aircraft factory (effectively an extension of Messerschmitt) and the Raxwerke plants of Wiener Neustädter Lokomotivfabrik (two of which used forced labor from the Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp).
The three WNF plants (W.N.F. Fischamend, W.N.F. Klagenfurt, W.N.F. Bad Voslau) were targets of the Combined Bomber Offensive against the German aircraft industry. WNF manufactured Messerschmitt Bf 109 fighters and repaired Junkers bombers and heavy fighters (German: Zerstörer). The Hirtenberger Patronen Zündhütchen und Metallwarenfabrik was an ammunition factory nearby.
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