In World War II, on November 18, 1943, a bomb was dropped from the sky over the German Kjeller airfield near the Norwegian capital of Oslo during an air raid by the U.S. Eighth Air Force.

In World War II, on November 18, 1943, a bomb was dropped from the sky over the German Kjeller airfield near the Norwegian capital of Oslo during an air raid by the U.S. Eighth Air Force.

　　The original attack that led to the bombing occurred on November 18, 1943, in a raid on Kieler Airfield by B-24 Liberator heavy bombers of the U.S. 8th Army Air Force, attached to the 2nd Air Division of the U.S. Army based in Norfolk, England. German occupation forces had planned a special military exercise at Kieler on Thursday, November 18, 1943. At Kieler airfield, repair and maintenance of Luftwaffe aircraft, engines, and parts was carried out by the three major German industrial and maintenance companies Approximately 107 aircraft of the 2nd AD Bomb Group that boarded on the morning of November 18, 1943, participated in the raid. German anti-aircraft artillerymen at the anti-aircraft battery at Kieler airfield fired in the air as part of a military exercise, as all impending attacks were part of a military exercise. About 78 American B-24 bombers bombed the air raid, dropping a total of about 838 bombs weighing about 230 kg over Kieler. The raid effectively halted maintenance activities at Kjeller airfield until the end of the war. Kjeller Airport was the first airport established in Norway. The German invasion of Norway broke out on April 8, 1940, and Kjeller Airfield was occupied on April 10, 1940, and Norway was overrun on June 10. After the war ended, Kjeller Airfield was surrendered to Norway on May 9, 1945.

　Two American crewmen were killed, one wounded, and 91 missing on the return flight, 30 of whom were interned in neutral Sweden. The U.S. military estimated that the bombing of Kieler airfield killed about 200 more German soldiers and wounded 400 others; many German soldiers who hid in trenches near the BMW site were buried alive and died. In addition to the bombs that actually fell on the airfield, approximately 140 bombs were dropped within a two-kilometer radius. Six private homes were destroyed and six were wrecked. Three civilians were killed and several others were wounded when smoke from the bombs billowed over the repair and maintenance base at the German airfield at Kieler after an American air raid on November 18, 1943.