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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.
Bombing of Nuremberg in World War II; on 2 January 1945, 521 Lancasters, with around 6,000 high-explosive bombs, a million incendiaries, caused a firestorm, destroying 90% of the Aldstadt, killing 1835 people. Before the war 400,000 lived there, but after the war 200,000 lived there.
Dresden viewed from the Rathaus (city hall) in 1945, showing destruction. 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 ...
v. t. e. The bombing of Stuttgart in World War II was a series of 53 air raids that formed part of the strategic air offensive of the Allies against Germany. The first bombing (by 20 aircraft of the Royal Air Force) occurred on August 25, 1940, and resulted in the destruction of 17 buildings. The city was repeatedly attacked over the next four ...
Up to 104 aircraft shot down. Up to 40,000 people killed. The Allied bombing of Hamburg during World War II included numerous attacks on civilians and civic infrastructure. As a large city and industrial centre, Hamburg 's shipyards, U-boat pens, and the Hamburg-Harburg area oil refineries were attacked throughout the war.
Berlin, the capital of Nazi Germany, was subject to 363 air raids during the Second World War. [ 1 ] It was bombed by the RAF Bomber Command between 1940 and 1945, the United States Army Air Forces ' Eighth Air Force between 1943 and 1945, and the French Air Force in 1940 and between 1944 and 1945 as part of the Allied campaign of strategic ...
The second Schweinfurt raid, [ 9 ] also called Black Thursday, was a World War II air battle that took place on 14 October 1943, over Nazi Germany between forces of the United States 8th Air Force and German Luftwaffe fighter arm (Jagdwaffe). The American bombers conducted a strategic bombing raid on ball bearing factories to reduce production ...
The old City of Frankfurt in 1942 before its destruction. Bombing of Frankfurt am Main by the Allies of World War II killed about 5,500 residents and destroyed the largest half-timbered historical city centre in Germany (the Eighth Air Force dropped 12,197 tons of explosives on the city). In the 1939–45 period the Royal Air Force (RAF ...