Ducati celebrates its centenary this year, but the company only started making motorcycles after Allied bombers destroyed its Borgo Panigale factory, which was manufacturing munitions for the German military
Ducati as founded on July 4, 1926. However, the story of Ducati motorcycles really began on 12 October 1944, when 700 American bombers flew over Bologna and dropped 1300 tons of bombs on the city.
The main targets of the Flying Fortress and Liberator bombers were Bologna’s biggest factory, the Ducati plant at Borgo Panigale, as well as ammunition dumps and railway yards, which needed disabling to hinder the Germans as the Allies pushed northwards after landing in southern Italy.
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