LIST OF TARGETS

I. RUHR AND RHINELAND AREA
No.	Place	Name of Plant	Capacity KW
1.	Knapsack (Nr. Koln)	Goldenberg	500,000
2.	Quadrath (Nr. Koln)	Fortuna I and II	200,000
3.	Stockum	Gersteinwerk	100,000
4.	Dusselldorf	Reisholz	115,000
5.	Hattingen	Gemeinschaft	120,500
6.	Essen	Karnap	220,000
7.	Herdecke	Koepchenwerk	140,000
8.	Brauweiler (Nr. Koln)	Brauweiler	Switching & Transformer Station
II. BERLIN AREA
No.	Place	Name of Plant	Capacity KW
9.	Berlin	Klingenberg	270,000
10.	Berlin	Westcroft	220,000
11.	Berlin	Charlottenberg	54,000
12.	Berlin	Spandau	49,400 & Switching Transformer Station
13.	Zchornewitz	Golpa	440,000
14.	Trattendorf	Trattendorf	160,000
15.	Lauta	Lauta	130,000
16.	Finkenheerd	Finkenheerd	290,000
17.	Berlin	Friedrichsfelde	Switching & Transformer Station
III. SOUTHERN AREA
No.	Place	Name of Plant	Capacity KW
18.	Schwandorf	Schwandorf	120,000
19.	Walchenseewerk	Walchenseewerk	125,000
20.	Nurnberg	Nurnberg	59,600 & Switching & Transformer Station
21.	Mannheim	Grosskraftwerk	130,000
22.	Rheinau	Rheinau	Switching & Transformer Station
23.	Aschaffenburg	Aschaffenburg	Switching & Transformer Station
24.	Karlsfeld (Nr. Munich)	Karsfeld	Switching & Transformer Station
IV. NORTHERN AREA
No.	Place	Name of Plant	Capacity KW
25.	Hamburg	Neuhof	130,000
26.	Hamburg	Tiefstack	90,000
27.	Hamburg	Schulau	50,000
28.	Lubeck	Merrenwyck	50,000
29.	Hamburg	Harburg	Switching & Transformer Station
30.	Hannover	Lehrte	Switching & Transformer Station
31.	Stettin	Pommerandorf	150,000
V. CENTRAL AND SOUTHEASTERN AREA
No.	Place	Name of Plant	Capacity KW
32	Bohlen	Bohlen	238,000
33	Espenhain	Espenhain	150,000
34	Borken	Borken	145,000
35.	Grosskayna	Grosskayna	56,000
36.	Harbke	Harbke	150,000 Approx
37.	Hirschfelde	Hirschfelde	145,000
NOTES: 1. Electric power is not a commodity which can be satisfactorily treated in terms of the total capacity of the country and must be considered in terms of areas. The total capacity of all of the plants within any one of the areas does not represent a high percentage of the total installed plant capacity in the whole of Germany, but it does represent a very high proportion of the capacity of the plants within the areas concerned. 2. The selection of the targets has been made after a technical examination of the power network, and the targets hot only include the major generating stations but also those switching and transformer stations through which external supplies might be imported to make up the deficiency due to the destruction of the power plants. 3. If all the plants selected in any one group are successfully destroyed, very wide areas will be completely denuded of electric power supplies, and if all five areas are dealt with, the electric power supply system in the whole of Germany would break down. This would not only have the effect of bringing a very large portion of industry to a standstill, but would also have an enormous effect on morale.

LOCATION OF TARGETS

BOMBER FORCE REQUIRED

1. DESCRIPTION OF TARGETS

An electric power station comprises 3 main units - the Turbine House, Boiler House and Switch House. The plant in the Turbine House, if destroyed, may take anything from 18 months to 2 years to replace. Boiler Plant may take an equal time to repair, but it is unlikely that a complete boiler unit will be destroyed but will be only damaged and repairs can probably be made in from 9 months to one year. Plant in the Switch House may take from 6 months to a year to replace, but temporary repairs can often be made to continue the operation of the Power House whilst the switchgear is being repaired. Hence, the Turbine House is considered to be the main objective. The sizes of this house may vary from plant to plant, but a good average for a large capacity station is about 400’ x 100’.

2. NUMBER OF DIRECT HITS AND TYPE OF BOMBS REQUIRED

It is considered that at least 6 direct hits are required upon the Turbine House in order to effectively destroy the generating capacity of the station. In order to obtain this number of hits on the comparatively small area of 400' x 100’, it is inevitable that many of the bombs will fall on the adjacent Boiler House and Switch House.

3. NUMBER OF SORTIES AND BOMBER FORCE REQUIRED

Based upon detailed calculations taking into account all operational factors involved in making attacks against highly defended targets, with appropriate allowances for probabilities, aiming errors, losses, etc., etc., and allowing for the fact that with the weight of attack proposed the destruction will be such that the plant will take more than 6 months to repair and, hence, that no further attacks will be required it appears that it will be necessary in order to deal with the 37 plants to have:—

13,449 SORTIES

In order to carry out these sorties in 33 operational days a force of:-

452 BOMBERS

must be set-up.