Re: Market Garden Questions

"robr" <rob.raaijmakers@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> the attack on the philips factory in eindhoven was not directly a
> success as I was until recently was working in the buildings that were
> attacked. They missed the factory totally and hit the residential area
> next to the factory with a lot of people killed. if I'm correct the
> attack was on 6 december 1942.

The raid that took place on Dec. 2, 1942 damaged the factory such that it
was out of action for 6 months! This raid was on a Sunday so that the
factory
would not contain workers. There were 148 Dutch casualties, and 7 German
soldiers.

On 30 Mar. 1943 the factory was bombed, but because of cloud
it was not successful. Only a corner was hit.
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