Encore by Steve Gibbs. AIT72 and their heroic efforts had

and their heroic efforts had played a major role in the destruction of Hitler's Third Reich

making him the conflict's top Ace

He was boiling with rage and humiliation

Power was supplied by a 160hp Mercedes D

Encore by Steve Gibbs. AIT72 and their heroic efforts hadDHM2543. Encore by Steve Gibbs. Wellington Mk X Bombers from 104 Squadron Royal Air Force based at Foggia in Italy make a night raid on the Messerschmitt factory at Steyr in Austria on 24 25th February 1944. The raid was by way of a follow up to the USAAF daylight raid of earlier that day which left the factory badly damaged. Of the 36 Wellingtons that took off from Foggia, only these two found the target. Others, using captured Italian maps later