Operation Matterhorn was a military operation of the United States Army Air Forces in World War II for strategic bombing by Boeing B-29 Superfortress...
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Air raids on Japan (section Operation Matterhorn)
establishing forward airfields in China. This strategy, designated Operation Matterhorn, involved the construction of large airstrips near Chengdu in inland...
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Look up Matterhorn in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. The Matterhorn is a mountain of the Alps. Matterhorn may also refer to: Matterhorn Peak (British...
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Twentieth Air Force (section World War II operations)
Bomber Command by 15 April 1944. See: Operation Matterhorn and XX Bomber Command for expanded history Operation Matterhorn was the name for the B-29 Superfortress...
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airfields in China. The main element of this strategy, designated Operation Matterhorn, was to construct airstrips near Chengdu in inland China which would...
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The Klein Matterhorn (sometimes translated as Little Matterhorn) is a peak of the Pennine Alps, overlooking Zermatt in the Swiss canton of Valais. At...
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Bombing of Tokyo (category World War II aerial operations and battles of the Pacific theatre)
operating out of mainland China in Operation Matterhorn under XX Bomber Command, but these could not reach Tokyo. Operations from the Northern Mariana Islands...
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of President Franklin D. Roosevelt as a promise to China, called Operation Matterhorn, deployed the B-29 units to attack Japan from four forward bases...
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1944-45 Operation Cockpit 1944-04-19 Operation Transom 1944-05-17 Bombing of Bangkok 1944-05-20 Operation Matterhorn 1944-06-05 – May 1945 Operation Meridian...
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Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki (redirect from Operation Centerboard)
long-ranged Boeing B-29 Superfortress became ready for use in combat. Operation Matterhorn involved India-based B-29s staging through bases around Chengdu in...
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