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On July 17, 1943, the Americans flew to Amsterdam-Noord with very large Flying Fortress B-17 bombers. They had to drop their bombs from a height of 6 kilometers directly on the Fokker factory, but that failed. (A 'Flying fortress' in Dutch is a 'flying fortress', so a flying castle. The B stands for Boeing factory that made the aircraft).

On Saturday, July 17, at 9 a.m., 37 American B-17 bombers flew over Amsterdam-Noord.
Their mission was to bomb the Fokker aircraft factory. Of the 37 aircraft, only 16 dropped all their bombs. A total of 156 bombs were dropped. But the factory was not hit. Their bombs fell on houses, shops, a police station, a doctor's home, a football field and a church.
185 Amsterdam children and adults were killed and one German soldier.

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Source

• Text: TracesOfWar
• Photos: Rick Hoogervorst