<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II" id="mwAfs" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="World War II">World War II</a>: The German <i id="mwAfw"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luftwaffe" id="mwAf0" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Luftwaffe">Luftwaffe</a></i> launches <i id="mwAf4"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Bodenplatte" id="mwAf8" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Operation Bodenplatte">Operation Bodenplatte</a></i>, a massive, but failed, attempt to knock out <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allies_of_World_War_II" id="mwAgA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Allies of World War II">Allied</a> air power in northern Europe in a single blow.<sup about="#mwt315" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-61"}}' id="cite_ref-61" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./January_1#cite_note-61" id="mwAgE" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 61;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwAgI">[61]</span></a></sup>
<span class="mw-reference-text reference-text" id="mw-reference-text-cite_note-61"><cite about="#mwt312" class="citation book cs1" id="CITEREFManrhoPutz2004">Manrho, John; Putz, Ron (2004). <a class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=iqAKAAAACAAJ" id="mwDuk" rel="mw:ExtLink nofollow"><i id="mwDuo">Bodenplatte: The Luftwaffe's Last Hope<span id="mwDus" typeof="mw:DisplaySpace"> </span>: the Attack on Allied Airfields New Year's Day, 1945</i></a>. Hikoki Publications. <a class="mw-redirect" href="./ISBN_(identifier)" id="mwDuw" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a><span id="mwDu0" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span><a href="./Special:BookSources/978-1-902109-40-4" id="mwDu4" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Special:BookSources/978-1-902109-40-4"><bdi id="mwDu8">978-1-902109-40-4</bdi></a>.</cite><span about="#mwt312" class="Z3988" id="mwDvA" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=book&amp;rft.btitle=Bodenplatte%3A+The+Luftwaffe%27s+Last+Hope+%3A+the+Attack+on+Allied+Airfields+New+Year%27s+Day%2C+1945&amp;rft.pub=Hikoki+Publications&amp;rft.date=2004&amp;rft.isbn=978-1-902109-40-4&amp;rft.aulast=Manrho&amp;rft.aufirst=John&amp;rft.au=Putz%2C+Ron&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DiqAKAAAACAAJ&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AJanuary+1"></span></span>