Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/8th AF Bombing Marienburg

The Bombing of Focke-Wulf plant at Marienburg, October 1943

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Original – A precision bombing featured this attack by 100 B-17s on a Focke-Wulf plant at Marienburg on Oct. 9, 1943. This led to the damage of two assembly buildings (1) gutted; another (2) damaged; hangars (3) gutted; stores and buildings (4) and boiler house (5) destroyed; other buildings (6) damaged. Cost to AAF: 2 B-17s.

Reason: High quality photo of WW2, showing a plane, field and explosion in one picture which makes for a pretty good photo
Articles in which this image appears: World War II, Aerial bombing of cities
FP category for this image: Wikipedia:Featured pictures/History/World War II
Creator: Unknown author

Support as nominator – Wcamp9 (talk) 23:22, 3 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Comment – Suggest change title of nom. to Bombing of a Focke-Wulf aircraft plant. – Sca (talk) 15:03, 10 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Not Promoted --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 00:34, 14 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]