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Shell House burning after the bombing raid The Gestapo headquarters in the Shellhus, Copenhagen, in March 1945 during Operation Carthage. A Mosquito pulling away from its bombing run is visible on the extreme left, centre. Aftermath: ruins of the Shell House. On the following day, a reconnaissance plane surveyed the target to assess the results ...
The Second Battle of Copenhagen (or the Bombardment of Copenhagen) (16 August – 7 September 1807) was a British bombardment of the Danish capital, Copenhagen, in order to capture or destroy the Dano-Norwegian fleet during the Napoleonic Wars.
The Oxford companion to world war II (New York: Oxford University Press, 1995) Elting, John R. Battles for Scandinavia (Time-Life Books 1981) Haarr, Geirr. The Gathering Storm: Naval War in Northern Europe, September 1939 to April 1940 (2013) Haarr, Geirr. German Invasion of Norway: April 1940 (vol 1 2012); The Battle for Norway, April-June ...
Battle of Copenhagen may refer to: Battle of Copenhagen (1289), between Eric VI of Denmark and Eric II of Norway; Bombardment of Copenhagen (1428), by ships from six Northern German Hanseatic towns; Assault on Copenhagen (1659), a major battle during the Second Northern War, taking place during the siege of Copenhagen by the Swedish army.
The devastating bombing raids of Dortmund on 12 March 1945 with 1,108 aircraft – 748 Lancasters, 292 Halifaxes, 68 de Havilland Mosquitos – was a record attack on a single target in the whole of World War II. More than 4,800 tonnage of bombs was dropped through the city centre and the south of the city and destroyed 98% of buildings.
21 March – The British Operation Carthage, an air raid targeting the local Gestapo headquarters in the Shell Building in central Copenhagen, goes wrong and 123 Danish civilians, including 87 school children, are killed. [2] 5 May – The occupation of Denmark ends with Nazi Germany's capitulation to the Allied Forces. [3]
Both the British and the US (through the Air War Plans Division) had drawn up their plans for attacking the Axis powers.. The British Ministry of Economic Warfare (MEW) published the Bombers' Baedeker in 1942 that identified the "bottleneck" German industries of oil, communications, and ball bearings; [11] a second edition followed in 1944. [12]
The British attack on Copenhagen resulted in Denmark-Norway deciding to form an alliance with France, and on 31 October, the French-Danish alliance was signed at Fontainebleau. Denmark-Norway was now officially at war with Britain, which led to the British occupation of all the Danish colonies. [11]