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Once bases around Foggia in Italy became available, the 15th was able to reach targets in southern France, Germany, Poland, Czechoslovakia, and the Balkans, some of which were difficult to reach from England.
The Foggia Airfield Complex was a series of World War II military airfields located within a 40 km (25 mi) radius of Foggia, in the Province of Foggia, Italy.
In September 1943, the USAAF formed the Fifteenth Air Force, uniting its Mediterranean heavy bomber forces together at bases in southern Italy. The USAAF could now mount major strategic raids in southern and eastern Europe, creating even more pressure on the Luftwaffe defense.
FIFTEENTH AIR FORCE BOMBING MISSIONS Page 1 of 12 November 1943 1st B-17s Spezia Naval Base; Vezzano RRBr 2nd 17&24 Wiener Neustadt, Aus I/A 4th B-17s Leghorn-Rome Highway 6th B-17s Orbetello RRBr 8th B-17s Turin I/BB 9th B-24s Villar Perosa I/BB B-17s Bolzano M/Y 10th B-24s Villar Perosa I/BB B-17s Bolzano M/Y and RRBr
On 15 April 1945 the Fifteenth put up a record smashing 93% of its available aircraft to soften up the approaches to Bologna in one of the final missions of the Italian campaign. A unique sidelight of the Fifteenth's operations has been the rescue and repatriation of air crews shot down in enemy territory.
In September 1943, the U.S. Army Air Force formed the 15th AF, based in the Foggia area of southern Italy. The six heavy bomb groups—four B-17, two B-24—flew major strategic raids in southern and eastern Europe, straining the Luftwaffe defense. ... Twining declared it the Fifteenth’s largest mission to date. A total of 530 B-17 and B-24 ...
B-24s of the Fifteenth Air Force on a bombing mission over Italy, June 1944. More than 18,000 B-24s were produced during the war. We passed Zagreb, the country’s second-largest city, and everything was going well.
