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1944. In a final Big Week mission (#235), the Eighth Air Force bombed the Augsburg Messerschmitt works during the day on 25 February 1944. [9] That night (25/26 February 1944), RAF Bomber Command followed with 594 aircraft and destroyed large parts of the centre of Augsburg. [10] 21 RAF aircraft, 3.6% of the force was lost (at least four due to ...
The Augsburg Raid, also referred to as Operation Margin, was a bombing raid made by the RAF on the MAN U-boat engine plant in Augsburg undertaken during the daylight hours of 17 April 1942. The mission was assigned to No. 44 (Rhodesia) Squadron and No. 97 Squadron, both of which were equipped with the new Avro Lancaster.
788 – Town sacked by forces of Charlemagne. [3] 923 – Ulrich becomes Bishop of Augsburg. 952 – Diet of Augsburg (meeting of leaders of Holy Roman Empire) active. 989 – Perlachturm built. 1065 – Augsburg Cathedral consecrated. [4] 1251 – Dominican Monastery of St. Katharine active. 1276 – Augsburg becomes a Free Imperial City.
Augsburg has a population of about 300,000. It is the third largest city in Bavaria and the largest city in the Swabia region. In the 16th century, Augsburg was one of the largest cities in Holy Roman Empire, with a population of about 30,000. This put it on a level with cities like Cologne and Prague.
31 March/1 April: A bombing raid on Emden is the first use of the 4,000 lb (1,800 kg) HC "cookie" blockbuster bomb. 15 April: The Belfast Blitz kills 1000, the greatest loss of British lives outside London from a night raid. 10 May: The longest blitz air raid on london killing 2324 people and 11,000 houses.
Augsburg Town Hall. Augsburg Town Hall (‹See Tfd› German: Augsburger Rathaus) is the administrative centre of Augsburg, Bavaria, Germany, and one of the most significant secular buildings of the Renaissance style north of the Alps. It was designed and built by Elias Holl, Stadtbaumeister (Master Builder of the town), in 1615–1624.
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 part of ...
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.