Hanau, Germany was bombed by British bombers (277 Lancasters and 8 Mosquitos of Nos 1 and 8 Groups) on 19 March 1945 during World War II, a few days before...
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The Allied bombing of Hamburg during World War II included numerous attacks on civilians and civic infrastructure. As a large city and industrial centre...
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Berlin, the capital of Germany, was subject to 363 air raids during the Second World War. It was bombed by the RAF Bomber Command between 1940 and 1945...
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The bombing of Warsaw in World War II started with the aerial bombing campaign of Warsaw by the German Luftwaffe during the siege of Warsaw in the invasion...
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German city of Cologne was bombed in 262 separate air raids by the Allies during World War II, all by the Royal Air Force (RAF). A total of 34,711 long...
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(1983) "Bombing Policy in the Rome and Pre-Normandy Invasion Aerial Campaigns of World War II: Bridge-Bombing Strategy Vindicated – and Railyard-Bombing Strategy...
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The Bombing of Bremen in World War II by the British Royal Air Force (RAF) and US Eighth Air Force involved both area bombing and, as capacity improved...
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During World War II, Dublin was first bombed early on the morning of 2 January 1941, when German bombs were dropped on the Terenure area. This was followed...
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The bombing of Treviso, a town in Northeastern Italy, took place on 7 April 1944, during World War II. Aimed at disabling the town's marshalling yard...
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bombing of Podgorica in World War II was carried out by the Allies from 1943 to 1944 at the request of the Yugoslav Partisans. Between the two World Wars...
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The bombing of Dresden was a joint British and American aerial bombing attack on the city of Dresden, the capital of the German state of Saxony, during...
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The bombing of Sendai (仙台空襲, Sendai-kūshū) on July 10, 1945, was part of the strategic bombing campaign waged by the United States against the civilian...
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The bombing of Kobe (Kōbe dai-kūshū) on March 16 and 17, 1945, was part of the strategic bombing air raids on Japan campaign waged by the United States...
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The Bombing of Munich took place mainly in the later stages of World War II. Munich was, and is, a significant German city, as much culturally as industrially...
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The bombing of Fukui (福井空襲, Fukui kūshū) on July 19, 1945, was part of the strategic bombing air raids on Japan campaign waged by the United States against...
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During World War II, the Estonian capital Tallinn suffered from many instances of aerial bombing by the Soviet air force and the German Luftwaffe. The...
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Duisburg was bombed a number of times by the Allies during World War II. The most devastating air raids on Duisburg occurred during October 1944 when the...
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Bucharest World War II bombings were primarily Allied bombings of railroad targets and those of the Oil Campaign of World War II, but included a bombing by Nazi...
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The city of Bangkok, Thailand was bombed by the Allies on numerous occasions during World War II. It was also the target for the first combat mission...
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The Italian bombing of Mandatory Palestine in World War II was part of an effort by the Royal Italian Air Force (Regia Aeronautica) to strike at the United...
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The bombing of Zagreb in World War II was carried out by the Allies from 1944 until 1945. According to a 1950 census of war victims, a total of 327 people...
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The bombing of Zadar during the Second World War by the Allies lasted from November 1943 to October 1944. Although other large cities in Italy were also...
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During World War II, the German industrial town of Essen was a target of Allied strategic bombing. The Krupp steelworks in particular was an important...
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The bombing of Gorky by the German Luftwaffe was the most destructive attack on Soviet war production on the Eastern Front of World War II. It lasted intermittently...
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The German city of Mannheim in the state of Baden-Württemberg saw bombing during World War II from December 1940 until the end of the war. Mannheim saw...
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During World War II, Düsseldorf was heavily destroyed by Allied aerial bombardment. The most severe attack occurred on June 12, 1943, when a firestorm...
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The city of Ulm, in the German state of Baden-Württemberg, was heavily bombed during the closing months of World War II. The first and heaviest raid, on...
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the capital of Finland, was bombed repeatedly during World War II. Between 1939 and 1944, Finland was subjected to a number of bombing campaigns by the...
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Bulgarian capital of Sofia suffered a series of Allied bombing raids during World War II, from mid 1941 to early 1944. Bulgaria declared war on the United...
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during World War II Article in newspaper - in Russian Video of the bombing, fire and ruins (as part of multimedia presentation) Minsk. City of Foreign...
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