Date | Target | Notes |
August 13, 1943 | | 61 B-24 Liberators in the first Ninth Air Force raid on Austria (using bombers on loan from the 8AF surviving from Operation Tidal Wave)[2] targeted the Wiener-Neustadt aircraft factory as part of the B-24 part of Operation Juggler postponed from August 7.[3] |
October 1, 1943 | | 73 B-24's based at Oudna Air Base outside of Tunis, Tunisia, temporarily on loan from the Eighth Air Force bombed the Wiener Neustadt Bf 109 factory.[4][5] |
November 2, 1943 | | The first mission by the US Fifteenth Air Force targeting the nearby Messerschmitt plant, including the 99th Bombardment Group on a 1,600 mile round trip,[6] dropped 312 tons[7] and hit the Raxwerke.[8] |
March 20–25, 1944 | | Operations during Big Week destroyed 200 aircraft at the Bf 109 plants in Wiener-Neustadt.[9] |
March 7, 1944 | | The 317th Bombardment Squadron bombed the Wiener Neustadt aircraft factory.[10] |
April 23, 1944 | | The 317th BS bombed the Wiener Neustadt aircraft factory. |
May 9, 1944 | | The 464th Bombardment Group bombed an aircraft factory.[11] |
May 10, 1944 | | The 97th BG bombed an aircraft factory at Wiener Neustadt after the other groups turned back because of bad weather. Of 31 aircraft, 5 were shot down (including the B-17 Flying Fortress of Jacob E. Smart), and the unit earned the Distinguished Unit Citation. |
May 24, 1944 | | The 317th BS bombed the Wiener Neustadt aircraft factory, and the 456th BG bombed "Wöllersdorf Air Drome Stores and Machine Shops".[11] |
May 29, 1944 | | The 32nd BS[12] bombed the Wiener Neustadt Wollersdorf AID.[clarification needed]. "Successful attacks on [the] Wiener-Neustadter complex have raised oil to high priority" (allied intelligence annex to a May 31 bombing order).[13] WNF Bad Vöslau manufactured Bf 109 components and was undamaged as of March 5, 1944. |
December 27, 1944 | marshalling yard | |
February 15, 1945 | main station | The 485 BG bombed the main station.[14] |
March 12, 1945 | marshalling yards | B-24s and B-17s bombed the Floridsdorf oil refinery and Wiener-Neustadt marshalling yards. |
March 14, 1945 | | George McGovern was one of the pilots who bombed the alternate target, the Wiener Neustadt marshaling yards, instead of the Vienna oil refinery.[2]: 228–9 |
March 15, 1945 | | 109 B-17s bombed the oil refinery at Ruhland (the Fifteenth's deepest penetration into Germany); 103 others bomb the alternate target, the refinery at Kolin, Czechoslovakia. More than 470 bombers attacked targets in Austria, including Moosbierbaum, Schwechat, and Vienna/Floridsdorf oil refineries, and the marshalling yards at Wiener-Neustadt.[15] |
March 16, 1945 | marshalling yards | The 47th Bomb Wing (H) 450th Group [16] bombed the marshalling yards using a B-24. 238 x 500 lb G.P. bombs dropped. 197 bursts plotted. Altitude 21,140'. |
March 20, 1945 | | 760+ B-17s and B-24s, with fighter escort, bombed the Korneuburg and Kagran oil refineries in Austria, the tank works at Steyr, and marshalling yards at Wels, Sankt Pölten, Amstetten, Wiener-Neustadt, & Klagenfurt[17] |
March 26, 1945 | | The 32nd BS bombed the marshalling yards. |