617 Sqd Kembs Barrage Raid 7 October 1944

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                                       Unknown date of the Kembs Barrage possibly 1943  unknown date before WWII                                                                    Before the bombing in 1944 Target shot 541st PR  SQD 2 Sept.1944 and earlier during WWII photographed from French side ( todays Village Neuf )                                   unknown date during WWII Monty visiting Kembs Barrage in 1946 to his right an unkown RAF AVM   March 7,2019 death body fished out of Rhine River at Maerkt Barrage

     Swiss AA telemetrical site near Rhine Port in Basel On September 1944, the Allied Headquarters (SHAEF)directed the Bomber Command to bombard the Rheinstauwehr at Märkt D, just over 3 kilometers north of Basel, in order to take control of the Rhine and its level. to destroy. The weir belongs to the power plant Kembs F, which supplies electricity to Alsace since 1932. In any case, they wanted to forestall the Germans by blowing up the weir, as the Allied High Command assumed that the Germans would also defend their defenses in order to stop the advancing French and American troops in which these vast areas under the river Märkt are flooding would, as the Germans have already done in France and Holland. The weir had been blown up in 1940 by the retreating French troops, but with a warning to the Swiss Rhine ports.                                      Swiss &  German border patrols at Weil Am Rhein The attack took place on October 7, 1944 by the 617 Bo