Operation Strangle

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A French-piloted B-26 Marauder has just taken out a 600-foot (180 m) bridge at the Piteccio viaduct in central Italy during Operation Strangle

During the World War II, Operation Strangle was a series of air operations by the U.S. Fifteenth and Twenty-first Air Forces to interdict German supply routes in Italy north of Rome from spring 1943 to spring 1944. By smashing Italian rail facilities near the battle front, the Allies forced the Germans to use trucks and horse-carts to bring forward supplies. These extended supply lines were subject to massive strikes by roving fighter-bombers.

Operation Strangle was also the name of the unsuccessful rail interdiction operation of the United Nations Command air forces in 1951-52 during the Korean War.

[edit] See also

• Operation Diadem
• Thunderbolt!

[edit] References

• Operation Strangle
• TIME 1944

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