RAF Did Not Bomb Platterhof on April 25 1945

In the air they would join a force totalling more than 300 Lancasters and 16 Mosquitos of Bomber Command, as well as over 270 B-24 Liberator bombers from the US 8th Air Force, which targeted the railway infrastructure leading to Berchtesgaden. Escorting them were 88 P-51D Mustang fighters from the US 8th Army Air Force. ... A Lancaster of No. 460 Squadron en route to Obersalzberg, Hitler’s alpine retreat near Berchtesgaden, Bavaria, on 25 April 1945.

https://www.nytimes.com/1945/04/26/archives/raf-6ton-bombs-score-hits-on-hitlers-mountain-chalet-hitlers.html ... By Sydney Gruson By Wireless To the New York Times. ... TimesMachine is an exclusive benefit for home delivery and digital subscribers. Full text is unavailable for this digitized archive article. Subscribers may view the full text of this article in its original form through TimesMachine. LONDON, April 25--The Royal Air Force carried the war right to Adolf Hitler's doorstep today, blasting his Berchtesgaden chalet and near-by mountain-top retreat with six-ton bombs, while the United States Eighth Air Force attacked the vast Skoda arms works at Pilsen in Czechoslovakia and four rail targets near Berchtesgaden, capital of the Nazis Alpine retreat.

Keiner der Bunker hat das Leben der Nazibonzen verlängert; weder Hitler noch Bormann noch Göring waren auf dem Obersalzberg, als am 25. April 1945 britische Bomber die NS-Bauten dort in Schutt und Asche legten.

The Germans took so long in building their wooden decoy that Allied photo experts had more than enough time to observe and report it. The day finally came when the decoy was finished, down to the last wooden plank. And early the following morning a lone RAF plane crossed the Channel, came in low, circled the field once, and dropped a large wooden bomb.

The German damage report added that Bormann and Goring’s houses were destroyed, that the SS barracks were heavily damaged, but that the Berghof and Platterhof Hotel were only damaged.*° The initial reports pointed out that the Lancasters ...

The bombing of Obersalzberg was an air raid carried out by the Royal Air Force's Bomber Command on 25 April 1945 during the last days of World War II in Europe. The operation targeted Obersalzberg, a complex of residences and bunkers in Bavaria that had been built for Adolf Hitler and other ...

World War II (1939–1945) involved sustained strategic bombing of railways, harbours, cities, workers' and civilian housing, and industrial districts in enemy territory. Strategic bombing as a military strategy is distinct both from close air support of ground forces and from tactical air power.

The Obersalzberg was bombed by hundreds of British RAF Lancaster heavy bombers, including aircraft from No. 617 Squadron RAF (the "Dambusters"), which attacked Obersalzberg on 25 April 1945. At least two bombs struck the Berghof and did considerable damage to the building.

Berchtesgaden, Germany, April 25, 1945. During a daylight raid, Lancaster aircraft from RAF Bomber Command targeted the area. A bomb exploded near Hitler's Berghof, located at the top left. Source: AWM © · The same photograph shows (2) Berghof – Hitler's House (encircled in red), (3) Bormann's House, (4) Göring's House, (6) Platterhof – Hotel & Restaurant, and (7) SS Kaserne (Barracks), numbers as indicated in the US Army Report 'Colony Map' (above).

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Juli 1944, rund einen Monat nach ... den Berghof endgültig und residierte ab da in der Wolfsschanze. Das Areal des Führersperrgebiets in Obersalzberg war lange Zeit von Luftangriffen verschont geblieben. Am 25. April 1945, fünf Tage vor Hitlers Suizid, flogen Langstreckenbomber des RAF Bomber Command ...

Durch die britischen Luftangriffe auf Königsberg Ende August 1944 wurde Ostpreußens Provinzialhauptstadt zerstört, die Altstadt praktisch in Gänze. Mit solchen Bombardierungen war im Zweiten Weltkrieg nicht gerechnet worden. Königsberg schien außer Reichweite der alliierten Bomberflotten.