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A German World War II incendiary bomb remnant. Firebombing is a bombing technique designed to damage a target, generally an urban area, through the use of fire, caused by incendiary devices, rather than from the blast effect of large bombs. In popular usage, any act in which an incendiary device is used to initiate a fire is often described as ...
Strategic bombing during World War II in Europe began on 1 September 1939 when Germany invaded Poland and the Luftwaffe (German Air Force) began bombing Polish cities and the civilian population in an aerial bombardment campaign. [33] As the war continued to expand, bombing by both the Axis and the Allies increased significantly.
The small number of German bombs, also known as firebombs, were finned containers filled with kerosene and oil and wrapped with tar-covered rope. They were dropped from Zeppelin airships . On 8 September 1915, Zeppelin L-13 dropped a large number of firebombs, but even then the results were poor and they were generally ineffective in terms of ...
The first aerial bombing of a city was on 6 August 1914 when the German Army Zeppelin Z VI bombed, with artillery shells, the Belgian city of Liège, killing nine civilians. [17] The second attack was on the night of 24–25 August 1914, when eight bombs were dropped from a German airship onto the Belgian city of Antwerp. [18]
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This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 9 December 2024. Aerial bombing attacks in 1945 You can help expand this article with text translated from the corresponding article in German. (June 2023) Click [show] for important translation instructions. Machine translation, like DeepL or Google Translate, is a useful starting point for translations ...
Dokumente von der Zerstörung Darmstadts am 11. September 1944 (in German). Darmstadt: Schlapp, H L. ISBN 978-3-87704-053-9. OCLC 1301965556. Jörg Friedrich (2002), Der Brand: Deutschland im Bombenkrieg 1940–1945 (in German), Munich: Propyläen Verlag, ISBN 3-549-07165-5, LCCN 2003425287, OCLC 186484412, OL 26639576M, Wikidata Q131292409
On the ground, a low-grade air raid alarm sounded at 19:00 hours, and was raised to a high alarm at 20:00. Because of a message from the command centre of the Franconian command in Limburg an der Lahn, the full alarm was given to the Würzburg population at 21:07. The first bombs dropped at 21:25, with an attack hour over Würzburg set for 21: ...