aviation, area bombardment or area bombing is a type of aerial bombardment in which bombs are dropped over the general area of a target. The term "area bombing"...

saturation bombing, is a large area bombardment done in a progressive manner to inflict damage in every part of a selected area of land. The phrase evokes...

between "Targeted Aerial Bombardment" and indiscriminate area bombardment (which the court called "Blind Aerial Bombardment"), and also a distinction...

A bombardment is an attack by artillery fire or by dropping bombs from aircraft on fortifications, combatants, or cities and buildings. Prior to World...

Specific bombardments Bombardment of Alexandria (1882) Bombardment of Algiers (disambiguation) (several) Bombardment of Brussels (1695) Bombardment of Curaçao...

allow for sufficient accuracy. Therefore, the air forces turned to area bombardment, which killed civilians. Since the War, the development and adoption...

World War II and is still practiced today. The development of aerial bombardment marked an increased capacity of armed forces to deliver ordnance from...

area. The report by the 1st Bombardment Division's commander to his commander states that the targeting sequence was the centre of the built-up area in...

their production capabilities, shifting from precision bombing to area bombardment with incendiaries. Like most strategic bombing during World War II...

US Army Air Forces and the British Royal Air Force engaged in the area bombardment of German cities and systematically targeted German transportation...

rear-area resources. The most well known attacks were those done by Zeppelins over England through the course of the war. The first aerial bombardment of...

place in the destroyed areas. After 63 days of heavy urban fighting, the Luftwaffe's combined efforts with artillery bombardment, and systemic destruction...

addition to previous treaties on bombardment of civilian areas generally, carpet bombing of cities, towns, villages, or other areas containing a concentration...

are still essential when dealing with them. Aerial bombing of cities Area bombardment Bomber Explosive weapons Strategic bombing Tactical bombing Types of...

specific operations to support Combined Operations, such as the periodic bombardment of targets of immediate strategic importance, for example naval units...

of bombing in the face of anti-aircraft defences, air forces used area bombardment, dropping large numbers of bombs so that it would be likely that the...

The Bombardment of Samsun was a naval operation carried out by the Greek Navy and the United States Navy against the Turkish town of Samsun in 1922. The...

that precision attacks were starting to produce results and moving to area bombardment would be counterproductive, but agreed to the operation after he was...

agreement of how to interpret those laws. This means that aerial bombardment of civilian areas in enemy territory by all major belligerents during World War...

bombers of the 313th Bombardment wing arrived from Tinian and attacked the Naniwa ward. Finally, 124 bombers of the 878th Bombardment Squadron from Saipan...

number of times. The largest raid, and one of the most devastating area bombardments of World War II, was carried out by the Royal Air Force (RAF) on the...

German coast. 13 September: The Bombing of Frampol was the war's first area bombardment  20 September: The first recorded RAF "kill" of the Second World War...

three wings of the XXI Bomber Command, namely the 73rd, 313th, and 314th Bombardment wings. It was flown in honor of Brigadier General LaVerne Saunders, who...

In the raid, led by Lieutenant-Colonel Robert Rosenthal of the 100th Bombardment Group flying in an H2X-equipped pathfinder B-17G Fortress s/n 44-8379...

strategic bomber campaign over Germany, Harris remained wedded to area bombardment. The historian Frederick Taylor argues that, because Harris lacked...

city-busting mix than the bomb-load usually used by the Americans in precision bombardments. This was quite a common mix when the USAAF anticipated cloudy conditions...

tactics (the bomber stream, use of incendiary bombs, and particularly area bombardment) all contributed. Prior to this the RAF had attempted to conduct precision...

"Dehousing" to Churchill on 30 March 1942, which calculated the effects of area bombardment by a massive bomber force on German cities to break the spirit of the...

conserve its forces; this resulted in a large campaign of area bombardment against the Ruhr area. Professor Frederick Lindemann's "de-housing" paper of March...

The same six bombardment groups that had bombed Hamburg the previous day, were ordered to bomb the same targets. The other bombardment groups attacked...