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The bombing can be utilized by strategic bombers or missiles, and may use general-purpose bombs, guided bombs, incendiary devices, chemical weapons, biological weapons, or nuclear weapons. This article is currently not comprehensive, but lists strategic bombing of cities and towns, and human death tolls starting from before World War II.
Proponents of this approach argued that civilian deaths inflicted by strategic bombing of the cities during the WWII were justified in the sense that they allowed to shorten the war and thus helped to avoid much more casualties. [60] The third approach was demonstrated by Michael Walzer in his Just and Unjust Wars (1977). Walzer formulated the ...
The schedule below details the statistics published by the West German government 1956. They estimated 635,000 total deaths, 500,000 due to the strategic bombing of Germany and an additional 135,000 killed in air raids during the 1945 flight and evacuations on the eastern front. [119]
The first notable strategic bombing was a bombing consisting of nine B-29s which bombed the Rising Sun oil refinery at Wonsan on July 6, 1950, followed by a bombing of a chemical plant at Hungnam. Later that month on July 30 a Chosen nitrogen explosives factory at Hungnam was bombed destroying the largest of the Konan Industrial-Chemical Complex.
Civilian casualties include deaths caused by strategic bombing, Holocaust victims, German war crimes, Japanese war crimes, population transfers in the Soviet Union, Allied war crimes, and deaths due to war related famine and disease. The exact breakdown is not always provided in the sources cited.
American Consolidated B-24 Liberator bombers attacking a Romanian oil refinery, May 1944. The United States Strategic Bombing Survey (USSBS) was a written report created by a board of experts assembled to produce an impartial assessment of the effects of the Anglo-American strategic bombing of Nazi Germany during the European theatre of World War II.
In 1999, it was estimated that 488–527 Yugoslav civilians died as a result of NATO bombing. [50] The report also criticized Pentagon and NATO officials for a lack of attention to the issue of civilian deaths, suggesting "a resistance to acknowledging the actual civilian effects and an indifference to evaluating their causes." [51]
c. 880 civilian deaths during the Bombing of Nijmegen, [6] 57 civilian deaths in Arnhem, [7] 40 civilian deaths in Enschede, [7] 1 civilian death in Deventer. [ 7 ] Operation Argument , [ 1 ] after the war dubbed Big Week , [ 1 ] was a sequence of raids by the United States Army Air Forces and RAF Bomber Command from 20 to 25 February 1944, as ...