Operation Clarion

Operation Clarion
	Part of Combined Bomber Offensive
Date	22–23 February 1945
Location	Nazi Germany
Belligerents
RAF Bomber Command; US Army Air Forces	Luftwaffe
Strength
	20,000 bombers and escort fighters.

Operation Clarion was the extensive allied campaign of Strategic bombing during World War II which attacked 200 German communication network targets^[2]^: 217 to open Operation Veritable/Grenade.^[1]

3,500 bombers and nearly 5,000 fighters attacked targets across Germany in effort to destroy all means of transportation available. Targets included "rail stations, barges, docks, and bridges."^[3]^: 535

References

^ ^a ^b Bauer, Eddy (1972) [1966]. Illustrated World War II Encyclopedia. Vol. 15). 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] Bauer, Eddy (1972) [1966]. Illustrated World War II Encyclopedia. Vol. 15). 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.

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