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Griesheim Airport

On 4 May the French and British Air Forces launched a series of desperate attacks against the bridges around Sedan at a heavy cost.

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Beginning in mid-to-late 1944, after the Allies landed in Normandy and began to move east into central France, Darmstadt-Griesheim came into the effective range of USAAF Ninth Air Force B-26 Marauder medium bombers and P-47 Thunderbolts.

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