U.S. planes batter Nazi ball bearing works.

U.S. planes batter Nazi ball bearing works. A reconnaissance photo taken after bomb smoke lifted over the three ball bearing plants at Schweinfurt shows damage inficted by the Eighth U.S. Air Force during a concentrated attack July 21, 1944. At the Kugelfischer works, three machine shops, a power plant and office building were partially destroyed; at the Fichtel and Sachs plants, a machine shop, boiler house and two workshops were damaged; three machine shops and other installations were partially destroyed at the V.K.F. factory no. 1. In six days of raids over Germany ending July 22, 1944, 12,000 planes of the Eighth and 15th U.S. Air Forces battered more than 100 Nazi targets, dropping more than 16,000 tons of bombs.