Basic Overview
Date: 30 November 1943
Scope: Minor
Nature: Air, Bombing
Status: Implemented
Scope: Minor
Nature: Air, Bombing
Status: Implemented
Theater
- North-West Europe
Nations Involved
- UK
- USA
- Germany
Operation Details
'Linoleum' was an Allied air attack on German flying boats moored on the Etang de Biscarosse in the south-western part of German-occupied France (December 1943).
,The first pair of attacks in June of the same year destroyed four Blohm & Voss flying boats (the Bv 222 V3 prototype and three Bv 138 machines), and there followed a number of other attacks before the last German 'boats were withdrawn on 19 August 1944.
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