Operation Clarion

Operation Clarion
	Part of Combined Bomber Offensive
Date	22–23 February 1945
Location	Nazi Germany51°N 09°E / 51°N 9°E
Belligerents
RAF Bomber Command; US Army Air Forces	Luftwaffe
Strength
	20,000 bombers and escort fighters.

Operation Clarion was a late-war campaign of the Allied strategic bombing of Germany. Two hundred German transport targets were attacked to open Operation Veritable–Operation Grenade.^: 217 The Allied air forces sent 3,500 bombers and nearly 5,000 fighters against targets in Germany to destroy all means of transport available. Targets included rail stations, barges, docks, and bridges.^: 535

References

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

[Bauer-1] 1 2 Bauer, Eddy (1972) [1966]. Illustrated World War II Encyclopedia. Vol. XV. 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.