"WalterM140" wrote in message
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"The target for the Eighth on 4 April was the Renault plant near Paris.
Three
diversions drew the German defenders away and permitted the lead 305th
Bomb
Group to destroy the complex; 498 out of 500 bombs fell within the
target
area."

The target area was "France," right?

No.

"The first mission of April brought more evidence of the value of the
bombardment campaign when Fortresses left the Renault works at Paris a
smoking
ruin; It took six months to resume full production, denying the enemy
3,075
lorries...the target was picked out in spite of industrial haze that
shrouded
much of the city...bombs of the 305th Fortresses struck at least 19
factory
buildings..."

--"The Mighty Eighth" by Roger Freeman

Walt

From www.renault.com

Unlike other manufacturers who worked for the enemy by day and the
Resistance at night, the Renault management did not ask the Allies to bomb
their factories, as Peugeot did. So Louis Renault did not understand why
Billancourt was the prime target of RAF bombers in March 1942 and on several
subsequent occasions.

Fact is the factory was repeatedly attacked and the most damaging raid
of them was that by the RAF in March 1942 which destroyed 40% of the
factory

Keith