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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 ...
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.
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.
Bombing of Berlin in World War II; in the first four months of the RAF campaign, the RAF lost around 1,000 aircraft; the USAAF joined the Berlin campaign from March 1944, with Mustang fighter support; the Luftwaffe fighter pilots were deeply alarmed by the numbers of the Mustangs; the largest USAAF raid, with 1,500 bombers of the Eighth Air Force, was on the morning of 3 February 1945, causing ...
The Blitz was a German bombing campaign against the United Kingdom, from 7 September 1940 to 11 May 1941, [4] for a little more than 8 months during the Second World War.. The Germans conducted mass air attacks against industrial targets, towns, and cities, beginning with raids on London towards the end of the Battle of Britain in 1940 (a battle for daylight air superiority between the ...
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 ...
RAF Bomber Command controlled the Royal Air Force 's bomber forces from 1936 to 1968. Along with the United States Army Air Forces, it played the central role in the strategic bombing of Germany in World War II. From 1942 onward, the British bombing campaign against Germany became less restrictive and increasingly targeted industrial sites and ...
1944–1945. Strategic campaigns. The Battle of Britain (‹See Tfd› German: Luftschlacht um England, "air battle for England") was a military campaign of the Second World War, in which the Royal Air Force (RAF) and the Fleet Air Arm (FAA) of the Royal Navy defended the United Kingdom (UK) against large-scale attacks by Nazi Germany 's air ...