Video: 'U.S. Bombers in First Daylight Raid on Berlin - 1944'

(Wednesday, February 23, 1944; during World War II) — American bombers today launched their first large-scale daylight raid on Berlin, the capital of Hitler’s Reich. The price they paid for their audacity was high: 69 heavy bombers and 11 escort fighters failed to return, the highest number in any raid mounted by the 8th Air Force.

Video: 'The World At War: Whirlwind Bombing Germany 5/5' (Mar. 6, 1944, at 8:27)