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A wrong turn over Germany; the 445th loses 25 bombers in minutes

Separated from its fighter escort near Göttingen, the group runs into 150 German fighters over the Seulingswald.

On September 27, 1944, 35 B-24 Liberators of the 445th Bombardment Group set out to bomb the Henschel tank works at Kassel but, after a navigation error, turned east toward Göttingen instead and missed their target. Stripped of fighter cover on the return leg, the formation was caught over the Seulingswald forest by roughly 150 German fighters from three Jagdgeschwader. In a few minutes, 25 bombers went down. Six more crashed trying to reach base in England. Only four landed unscathed. It remains the largest single-mission loss suffered by any USAAF bomb group in the war…

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