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The final report of the No. 5 bomber group on April 10, 1945 gave the destruction of the city at 89%, and for the suburbs at 68%. This was above average, as was the Würzburg district of Heidingsfeld, which some bomber crews targeted before reaching their primary target.
Bombing of Berlin in World War II; in the first four months of the RAF campaign, the RAF lost around 1,000 aircraft; the USAAF joined the Berlin campaign from March 1944, with Mustang fighter support; the Luftwaffe fighter pilots were deeply alarmed by the numbers of the Mustangs; on 6 March 1944, the first large US raid drops 1600 tons of bombs from 600 bombers, with around 160 of the 800 ...
The bombing of Göttingen were a series of British and American aerial bombing attacks on the city of Göttingen during World War II.A total of eight air raids were carried out by the Royal Air Force and United States Army Air Forces between 1944 and 1945 as part of the Allied campaign of strategic bombing of Germany.
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 World War II. In four raids between 13 and 15 February 1945, 772 heavy bombers of the Royal Air Force (RAF) and 527 of the United States Army Air Forces (USAAF) dropped more than 3,900 tons ...
The bombing of Lüneburg were a series of American aerial bombing attacks on the city of Lüneburg during World War II. A total of 19 air raids were carried out by the United States Army Air Forces between 1940 and 1945 on the city and nearby industrial targets as part of the Allied campaign of strategic bombing of Germany, but unlike the bigger cities nearby like Hamburg and Lübeck, the city ...
The bombing of Obersalzberg was an air raid carried out by the Royal Air Force's Bomber Command on 25 April 1945 during the last days of World War II in Europe. The operation targeted Obersalzberg, a complex of residences and bunkers in Bavaria which had been built for Adolf Hitler and other key members of Germany's leadership. Many buildings ...
German losses were 30 Bf 109s and Fw 190s, 24 pilots killed and seven wounded. [29] Mission 229: 5 of 5 B-17s drop 250 bundles of leaflets on Rouen, Caen, Paris and Amiens, France at 2215–2327 hours without loss. Monday 21 February 1944 9 ETO: Tactical operations [27] 18 B-26s bomb Coxyde Airfield, Belgium; weather causes almost 190 aborts.
The bombing of WieluĊ, one of the first military acts of World War II and the first major act of bombing, was carried out on a town that had little to no military value. [76] Similarly, the bombing of Frampol has been described as an experiment to test the German tactics and weapons effectiveness.