Operation Hermann

Operation executed January 1, 1945 by about 1,100 German Luftwaffe planes assigned to destroy Allied air power in the West in support of Operation Wacht Am Rhein.

27 Allied air bases in Belgium, the Netherlands, and France were attacked. 439 Allied aircraft were destroyed, mostly on the ground.

The operation was alternately known as Bodenplatte and Big Blow.

This was the final major Luftwaffe offensive on Allied aircraft before the end of World War II.

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