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The siege of Budapest or battle of Budapest was the 50-day-long encirclement by Soviet and Romanian forces of the Hungarian capital of Budapest, near the end of World War II. Part of the broader Budapest Offensive , the siege began when Budapest, defended by Hungarian and German troops, was encircled on 26 December 1944 by the Red Army and the ...
After the Budapest offensive, the main forces of Army Group South virtually collapsed. The road to Vienna, Czechoslovakia and the southern border of Germany was widely open for the Soviets and their allies. [8] According to Soviet claims, the Germans and Hungarians in Budapest lost 49,000 dead soldiers, with 110,000 captured and 269 tanks ...
In one of the more controversial events of the war, the bombing of Dresden began. Over the next three days a total of 3,900 tons of high-explosive bombs and incendiary devices were dropped on the city by Allied air forces. The Budapest Offensive and the Siege of Budapest ended with Nazi troops surrendering the Hungarian city to Soviet-Romanian ...
3: Allied bombers hit Budapest in Hungary, now occupied by the Germans, and Bucharest in Romania, ahead of the advancing Red Army. 4: General Charles de Gaulle takes command of all Free French forces. 5: US Air Force bombs Ploiești oil fields in Romania, with heavy losses.
17 April: The Augsburg Raid is the first to attempt low-level daylight bombing for accuracy - in this case against the factory producing engines for U-boats. Half of the 12 bombers were shot down for little damage caused. 23–29 April: The first period of the Baedeker Blitz bomb the provincial cities of Exeter, Bath, Norwich, and York.
The remains of German town of Wesel after intensive Allied area bombing in 1945 near the end of World War II (a destruction percentage of 97% of all buildings). The aerial bombing of cities is an optional element of strategic bombing , which became widespread in warfare during World War I .
The 456 BG bombed the "previously-untouched" Shell Oil refinery at Budapest and earned its 2nd Distinguished Unit Citation. 31 aircraft bombed at mid-morning and were attacked three minutes after bomb release by 50 Bf 109s and 10 FW-190s of Jagdgeschwader 300 and the Hungarian 101 Puma Group. The 744 BS lost 6 of 9 bombers in the target area ...
Davis, Richard G. (April 2006), Bombing the European Axis Powers: A Historical Digest of the Combined Bomber Offensive 1939–1945, Air University Press, p. 202,554–5, ISBN 1-58566-148-1; Emerson, William R. (1962), "Operation Pointblank: A Tale of Bombers and Fighters", USAFA Harmon Memorial Lecture, archived from the original on March 25, 2009