Nuremberg
Raid target — Germany
13 raids in this database struck Nuremberg — 4,500 aircraft sorties dispatched in total, of which 129 failed to return.
| Date | Operation | Command | Dispatched | Lost |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12 Oct 1941 | Nuremberg raid | Bomber Command | 152 | None |
| 28 Aug 1942 | Nuremberg raid | Bomber Command | 159 | None |
| 25 Feb 1943 | Nuremberg raid | Bomber Command | 337 | None |
| 8 Mar 1943 | Nuremberg raid | Bomber Command | 335 | None |
| 10 Aug 1943 | Nuremberg raid | Bomber Command | 653 | None |
| 27 Aug 1943 | Nuremberg raid | Bomber Command | 674 | 33 |
| 30 Mar 1944 | Operation Nuremberg raid | Bomber Command | 795 | 95 |
| 8 Sep 1944 | Nuremberg raid | Bomber Command | 13 | None |
| 19 Oct 1944 | Nuremberg raid | Bomber Command | 270 | None |
| 25 Nov 1944 | Nuremberg raid | Bomber Command | 107 | 1 |
| 2 Jan 1945 | Nuremberg raid | Bomber Command | 521 | None |
| 16 Mar 1945 | Nuremberg raid | Bomber Command | 341 | None |
| 11 Apr 1945 | Nuremberg raid | Bomber Command | 143 | None |
Photographs
Royal Air Force Bomber Command, 1942-1945. The severely damaged tank shop in the MAN engineering works at Nuremberg, which was attacked by Bomber Command a number of times.
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Clark N S (Flt Lt) and Broom R R (Fg Off), Royal Air Force official photographer / Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons — https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:N%C3%BCrnberg,_Royal_Air_Force_Bomber_Command,_1942-1945_CL3117.jpgView source & full licence →Royal Air Force Bomber Command, 1942-1945. 30-lb incendiary bombs, just released from an attacking aircraft, fall over the southern suburbs of Nuremberg during the night raid of 28/29 August 1942.
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Royal Air Force official photographer / Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons — https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:N%C3%BCrnberg,_Royal_Air_Force_Bomber_Command,_1942-1945_C3110.jpgView source & full licence →Royal Air Force Bomber Command, 1942-1945. An RAF officer walks through the ruins of the Lorenzer Altstadt in Nuremberg (Kreuzgassenviertel area), destroyed during a number of area attacks by Bomber Command between 1942 and 1944. The Kaiserburg and castle can be seen in the background, and the ruined twin towers of the Sebalduskirche (St Sebald’s church) in the right distance.
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Clark N S (Flt Lt) and Broom R R (Fg Off), Royal Air Force official photographer / Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons — https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:N%C3%BCrnberg,_Altstadt,_Royal_Air_Force_Bomber_Command,_1942-1945_CL3106.jpgView source & full licence →Royal Air Force Bomber Command, 1942-1945. Wrecked workshops of the Siemens-Schuckert Werke electrical factory at Nuremberg, which was attacked a number of times by Bomber Command.
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Clark N S (Flt Lt) and Broom R R (Fg Off), Royal Air Force official photographer / Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons — https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:N%C3%BCrnberg,_Royal_Air_Force_Bomber_Command,_1942-1945_CL3097.jpgView source & full licence →A part of Nuremberg, devastated by Allied bombing, 28 May 1945. Oblique aerial view of heavily-damaged industrial and residential buildings in Nuremberg. Visible at the centre of the photo is a multi-story above-ground air raid bunker. At the bottom of the photo, below the bunker, is the Siemens plant. Top left is the gas works in Nürnberg-Sandreuth, top right is the main station (Hauptbahnhof)
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Clark N S (Flt Lt) Broom R R (Fg Off), Royal Air Force official photographer / Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons — https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:A_part_of_Nuremberg,_devastated_by_Allied_bombing,_28_May_1945._CL3414.jpgView source & full licence →Royal Air Force Bomber Command, 1942-1945. The Station Commander at Snaith, Yorkshire, Group Captain N H Fresson, is joined by other officers on the balcony of the control tower as they await the return of Handley Page Halifaxes of No. 51 Squadron RAF from a night raid on Nuremberg. Note the ambulance and crash tenders with their crews standing by below the tower, and the searchlight beam pointing skywards to show the cloud base. Five aircraft failed to return to Snaith on this night, and a sixth crashed on landing.
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Clark N S (F/O), Royal Air Force official photographer / Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons — https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Royal_Air_Force_Bomber_Command,_1942-1945._CH12601.jpgView source & full licence →Royal Air Force Bomber Command, 1942-1945. Squadron Leader Peter Hill, briefs crews of No. 51 Squadron RAF on the forthcoming raid to Nuremberg, Germany in the Operations Room at Snaith, Yorkshire. The Station Commander, Group Captain N H Fresson, sits third from the left in the front row. No. 51 Squadron lost six Handley Page Halifaxes that night (30/31 March 1944), suffering 35 men killed (including Sqn Ldr Hill) and seven made prisoners-of-war. Sqn Ldr Frederick Peter Hill (Service Number: 60532) is buried in Section 4, Row D, Grave 16 at Durnbach War Cemetery, Germany. GPS Location of the Cemetery is:- N 47° 46’ 42” E 11° 44’ 0.7”
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Clark N S (F/O), Royal Air Force official photographer / Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons — https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Royal_Air_Force_Bomber_Command,_1942-1945._CH12598.jpgView source & full licence →Royal Air Force Bomber Command, 1942-1945. The Officer of the Watch in the Watch Office at Snaith, Yorkshire, guiding Handley Page Halifaxes of No. 51 Squadron RAF back to base after a night raid on Nuremberg. The Station Commander of Snaith, Group Captain N H Fresson, can be seen waiting outside on the balcony of the Control Tower.
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Clark N S (Fg Off), Royal Air Force official photographer / Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons — https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Royal_Air_Force_Bomber_Command,_1942-1945._CH18743.jpgView source & full licence →Aircraft of the Royal Air Force 1939-1945- Avro 683 Lancaster. Three Lancaster B Mark IIIs of No. 619 Squadron RAF, airborne from Coningsby, Lincolnshire. The aircraft in the foreground, LM418 ‘PG-S’, was destroyed in a crash-landing at Woodbridge Emergency Landing Ground after returning from the ill-fated Nuremberg raid of 30/31 March 1944 on two engines. Its crew survived the crash, but were all killed in action later
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Stanley Devon / Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons — https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Aircraft_of_the_Royal_Air_Force_1939-1945-_Avro_683_Lancaster._CH12352.jpgView source & full licence →A Royal Air Force Handley Page Halifax Mark II Series I (s/n W7676, ‘TL-P’) of No. 35 Squadron RAF based at Linton-on-Ouse, Yorkshire (UK), being piloted by Flight Lieutenant Reginald Lane, (later Lieutenant-General, RCAF), over the English countryside. Flt Lt Lane and his crew flew twelve operations in W7676, which failed to return from a raid on Nuremberg on the night of 28/29 August 1942, when flown by Flt Sgt D. John and crew.