Darmstadt was bombed a number of times during World War II. The most defestating air raid on Darmstadt occured on the night of 11/12 September 1944 when No. 5 Group the Royal Air Force (RAF) bombed the city. Darmstadt is a city in the Bundesland (federal state) of Hessen in Germany. ... Combatants Allies: Soviet Union United Kingdom United States and others Axis Powers: Germany Italy Japan and others Commanders Winston Churchill Franklin Roosevelt Joseph Stalin Adolf Hitler Benito Mussolini Hideki Tojo Casualties Military dead: 17,000,000 Civilian dead: 33,000,000 Total dead: 50,000,000 Military dead: 8,000... (Redirected from 11 September) September 11 is the 254th day of the year (255th in leap years). ... September 12 is the 255th day of the year (256th in leap years). ... No. ... The Royal Air Force (RAF) is the air force branch of the British Armed Forces. ...

On the night of 23/24 September 1943 Darmstadt was bombed by 21 Avro Lancasters and 8 De Havilland Mosquitos of No. 8 Group RAF. Although it was a diversionary raid to draw night fighters away from for the main raid on Manheim with 628 aircraft, the small force of bombers caused extensive damage in the university town that had little industry and which had not been seriously bombed before. ^[1] September 24 is the 267th day of the year (268th in leap years). ... 1943 (MCMXLIII) was a common year starting on Friday (the link is to a full 1943 calendar). ... The Avro Lancaster was a four-engine World War II bomber aircraft made initially by Avro for the Royal Air Force (RAF). ... The de Havilland Mosquito (The Wooden Wonder a. ... No. ... Manheim is a borough located in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. ...

On the night of 24/25 April 1944, some RAF planes bombed Darmstadt and other towns when, due to low cloud, they failed to find the main target of the night which was Karlsruhe. ^[2] April 25 is the 115th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (116th in leap years). ... Karlsruhe (population 283,959 in 2005) is a city in the south west of Germany, in the Bundesland Baden-Württemberg, located near the French-German border. ...

On the night of 25/26 August 1944 90 Lancasters and 6 Mosquitos of No. 5 Group RAF was a failure, because the pathfinders' flares were dropped too far to the west. 95 buildings were hit in Darmstadt and 8 people were killed by the scattered bombs which did hit the town. ^[3] August 26 is the 238th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (239th in leap years). ... The Pathfinder squadrons of the Royal Air Force were elite squadrons of RAF Bomber Command during World War II. During World War II the RAF Bomber Command practiced mainly night bombing. ...

Another raid on Darmstadt by No. 5 Group RAF, this time on the night of the 11/12 September 1944 by 226 Lancasters and 14 Mosquitos, started a fierce fire in the centre and in the districts immediately to the south and east. Property damage in this area was almost complete ^[4]. The raid killed an estimated 12,300 inhabitants and rendered 66,000 homeless ^{[citation needed]}. The RAF lost 12 Lancasters, 5.3 per cent of the Lancaster force^[4]. (Redirected from 11 September) September 11 is the 254th day of the year (255th in leap years). ... September 12 is the 255th day of the year (256th in leap years). ...

Royal Air Force Bomber Command 60th Anniversary Campaign Diary for September 1944 states that:

The Darmstadt raid, with its extensive fire destruction and its heavy casualties, was held by the Germans to be an extreme example of RAF 'terror bombing' and is still a sensitive subject because of the absence of any major industries in the city. Bomber Command defended the raid by pointing out the railway communications passing through Darmstadt; the directive for the offensive against German communications had not yet been issued to Bomber Command, although advance notice of the directive may have been received. Darmstadt was simply one of Germany's medium-sized cities of lesser importance which succumbed to Bomber Command's improving area-attack techniques in the last months of the war when many of the larger cities were no longer worth bombing.^[4]

On the night of 23/24 February 1945 4 RAF Mosquitos attacked Darmstadt as a diversionary raid to draw night fighters away from the main target of Pforzheim.^[5] February 24 is the 55th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... During the latter stages of World War II Pforzheim, a town in south west Germany was bombed on a number of times. ...

Footnotes

1. ^ Royal Air Force Bomber Command: Campaign Diary September 1943
2. ^ Royal Air Force Bomber Command: Campaign Diary April 1944
3. ^ Royal Air Force Bomber Command: Campaign Diary August 1944
4. ^ ^a b c Royal Air Force Bomber Command: Campaign Diary September 1944
5. ^ Royal Air Force Bomber Command: Campaign Diary February 1945

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