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    Operation Steinbock or Operation Capricorn (German: Unternehmen Steinbock), sometimes called the Baby Blitz or Little Blitz, was a strategic bombing campaign...
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  • Steinbock or Alpine ibex is a species of wild goat living in the Alps. Steinbock also may also refer to: Operation Steinbock, a 1944 Luftwaffe bombing...
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    moved back to France to carry out raids against British targets. The Steinbock operation was launched against the United Kingdom in retaliation for the RAF's...
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    orders for the purpose of bombing London. The offensive was named Operation Steinbock and began in January 1944. The operational aspects were devised by...
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  • Big Week (redirect from Operation Big Week)
    Germany, to take over the role. The offensive overlapped the German Operation Steinbock, the Baby Blitz, which lasted from January to May 1944.[citation...
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    use on the Western Front, although the type played a role during Operation Steinbock (the "Baby Blitz") against the British mainland in 1944. During the...
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    theatres of war. KG 54 fought on the Italian Front and participated in Operation Steinbock over England. It supported German forces in the night intruder role...
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    by Adolf Hitler in retribution for RAF Bomber Command operations over Germany. Operation Steinbock began on 21 January 1944. I./KG 40 and I./KG 100 bombed...
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  • Baedeker Blitz (category World War II aerial operations and battles of the Western European Theatre)
    principal target for retaliation. On 21 January the Luftwaffe mounted Operation Steinbock, an all-out attack on London employing all of its available bomber...
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    the "mini-blitz" of Operation Steinbock between February and May 1944, Düppel allowed German bombers again to attempt operations over London. Although...
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    loss of only two Me 410s and four airmen. The attack coincided with Operation Steinbock, a bombing and intruder offensive against Greater London and in response...
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    while with her family before returning to the United Kingdom. During Operation Steinbock, Queen Wilhelmina was almost killed by a bomb that took the lives...
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    one last strategic bombing campaign against the UK in early 1944: Operation Steinbock. Luftflotte 3 assembled a fleet of 474 bombers, including the newer...
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    Luftwaffe in an operation known as 'Big Week' (20–25 February 1944) and succeeded brilliantly – its major attacks came during Operation Steinbock (the so-called...
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    the British radar operators invaluable lessons for the opening of Operation Steinbock in early 1944. Combined with Ultra intercepts that allowed the night...
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  • exclusively in the West; in the Defence of the Reich, Western Front and in Operation Steinbock. All Groups and squadrons of KG 51 disbanded and reformed during...
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  • night-time strategic bombing campaign against southern England code-named Operation Steinbock, which ended in heavy losses for German bombers in early 1944. Although...
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    Pall Mall after an Operation Steinbock air-raid, February 1944...
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    also served as a V-2 rocket expert on the Cabinet Defence Committee (Operations) and headed a German long range weapons targeting deception under the...
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  • fighter operations were used to draw the Luftwaffe into a war of attrition and keep as many German fighters in the west, particularly after the Operation Barbarossa...
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