Basic Overview
Date: 30 November 1943
Scope: Minor
Nature: Air, Bombing
Status: Projected
Scope: Minor
Nature: Air, Bombing
Status: Projected
Theater
- North Africa & Western Desert
Nations Involved
- Germany
- UK
Operation Details
'Dora' (ii) was a German unrealised plan for an air attack on the port and associated supply dumps of Lagos on the Nigerian coast by Oberst Fritz Heigl’s Kampfgeschwader 200 special-purpose air unit using captured and refurbished Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress heavy bombers staging through a secret air base in the Sahara desert (1944).
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