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The Eighth Air Force sent out 26 B-17 Flying Fortress heavy bombers at around 13:00 from England to the marshalling yard, where they dropped time-fused bombs. The idea of dropping time-fused bombs was to slow down the general repair time of the Germans and to prevent quick repairs on any damaged vehicles in the immediate aftermath of the ...
The majority of these incendiary bombs were the 500-pound (230 kg) E-46 cluster bomb which released 38 M-69 oil-based incendiary bombs at an altitude of 2,500 ft (760 m). [ 12 ] The end of World War Two was brought about with the aerial, atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki that killed between 150,000 and 246,000 people and which remain ...
American World War II air-dropped bombs include all air-dropped bombs (and similar ordnance) designed, built, and operated by the United States armed forces during the Second World War. Pages in category "World War II aerial bombs of the United States"
Modern American air-dropped bombs includes all bombs designed, built, and operated by the United States since 1990. Subcategories This category has the following 3 subcategories, out of 3 total.
According to the United States Strategic Bombing Survey, Allied bombers between 1939 and 1945 dropped 1,415,745 tons of bombs over Germany (51.1% of the total bomb tonnage dropped by Allied bombers in the European campaign), 570,730 tons over France (20.6%), 379,565 tons over Italy (13.7%), 185,625 tons over Austria, Hungary and the Balkans (6. ...
A frightening moment in the 1950s has mostly been forgotten today — the release of an unloaded nuclear bomb by the Air Force over the Palmetto State. That time the U.S. government accidentally ...
US and British aircraft used radar-detecting devices and aerial reconnaissance to locate Iraqi anti-aircraft weapons. Bunker buster bombs, designed to penetrate and destroy underground bunkers, were dropped on Iraqi command and control centers. Iraqi ground forces could not seriously challenge the American ground forces because of their air ...
The bombing campaigns of the Vietnam War were the longest and heaviest aerial bombardment in history. The United States Air Force, the U. S. Navy, and U. S. Marine Corps aviation dropped 7,662,000 tons of explosives. By comparison, U. S. forces dropped a total of 2,150,000 tons of bombs in all theaters of World War II.