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.[1]

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

Bauer, Eddy (1972) [1966]. Illustrated World War II Encyclopedia. 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.

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[Bauer-1] Bauer, Eddy (1972) [1966]. Illustrated World War II Encyclopedia. 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.