Berlin • Birmingham • Cologne • Coventry • Darwin • Dresden • Frampol • Hamburg • Kassel
Kobe • London • Liverpool • Manchester • Rotterdam • Tokyo • Warsaw • Wieluń Strategic Bombing during World War II was unlike anything the world had previously witnessed. ... Survivor of German aerial bombardment of Warsaw This image has been released into the public domain by the copyright holder, its copyright has expired, or it is ineligible for copyright. ... Area bombardment is the policy of indiscriminate bombing of an enemys cities, for the purpose of destroying civilian morale. ... Picassos Guernica Terror bombing is a strategy of deliberately bombing civilian targets and strafing civilians in order to break the morale of the enemy and make the civilian population of the enemy panic. ... The term Battle of Berlin is sometimes restricted to the Royal Air Force for a bombing campaign on Berlin between November 1943 and March 1944. ... The City of Cologne was bombed by the Allies many of times during World War II . ... The twin spires of Coventrys skyline This article is about the history of Coventry, England. ... The two Japanese air raids on Darwin, Australia on February 19, 1942 were by far the biggest ever attack by a foreign power against the Australian mainland. ... The bombing of Dresden by the British Royal Air Force (RAF) and the United States Army Air Force (USAAF) between February 13 and February 15, 1945 remains one of the more controversial events of World War II. According to British historian Frederick Taylor: The destruction of Dresden has an epically... The Bombing of Frampol happened during the Polish Defence War of 1939. ... Firestorm in Hamburg Operation Gomorrah was the military codename for a series of air raids conducted by the Royal Air Force on the city of Hamburg beginning in the end of July 1943. ... The city of Kassel in Germany was severely bombed during World War II. Kassel is in the northern part of the federal state of Hesse, between Frankfurt (190 km south), and Hanover (160 km north). ... On March 17th, 1945, three hundred and thirty-one American B-29 bombers launched a firebombing attack against the city of Kobe, Japan. ... German bomber over the Surrey Docks, London The Blitz (also called the London Blitz), a popular English contraction of the German word Blitzkrieg, meaning Lightning War, was the sustained and intensive bombing of the United Kingdom by Nazi Germany during 1940-1941. ... The bombing of Rotterdam occured in the initial phases of World War II when German forces invaded the Netherlands. ... The U.S. bombing of Tokyo during World War II took place between 1942 and 1945. ... The Bombing of Warsaw in World War II refers both to the terror bombing campaign on Warsaw by Luftwaffe during the September Campaign (siege of Warsaw and to the German bombing raids during the Warsaw Uprising. ... Bombing of Wielun in World War II refers to the German bomb raid on the Polish city of WieluÅ„ at the outbreak of World War II. On September 1, 1939 at 4:40 AM, the town of WieluÅ„ was bombed by the German Luftwaffe. ...