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3 June: Operation Paula was Nazi Germany's "single attempt at strategic air warfare during the French campaign." [12]: 7 7-8 June: French Air Force raid is the first air raid against Berlin. [citation needed] 9 June: Germany attains air supremacy in the Battle of France. June 11/12: First British bombing of Italy with a raid on Turin. [2] [specify]
Civilians participating in an air-raid drill during 1942. The Japanese government also sought to improve the country's civil defenses in response to the Doolittle Raid and the threat of further attacks. The national government placed the burden of constructing civilian air-raid shelters on the prefectural governments. However, few shelters were ...
Bombing of Essen in World War II, on 8 March 1942 was the first carpet bombing raid by RAF, with the first electronic navigation of the RAF, with 211 aircraft, and the Gee radio navigation system; on 5 March 1943, there was a huge raid, with 160 acres destroyed in a firestorm; this was the first raid of the 'Battle of the Ruhr', with 442 ...
Birdseed (1944) – anti-shipping raid against Ramree harbour area; Boarding Party (1943) – raid against German ships interned in neutral port of Goa. Boomerang (1944) air raid on Palembang; C (1942) – major Japanese naval incursion into Indian Ocean; Canned (1944) – search and destroy operation for German supply tanker
Due to the disproportional affect that a raid can have on an enemy, relative to the attacker's strength and the duration of the attack, raids are a favored tactic in irregular warfare. This article contains a list of military raids , not including air raids , sorted by the date at which they started:
The first certain raid on Britain occurred on 21 December; the weather was dull with a slight wind from the south and rain showers. [10] At 1:00 p.m. Friedrichshafen FF.29 seaplane no. 203 from I. Seeflieger-Abteilung, carrying four 4.4 lb (2 kg) bombs, flown by Flugzeugführer Leutnant Stephan von Proudzynski and his observer (Beobachter) Fähnrich zur See Ludwig v.
Three overnight airstrikes on eastern Syria near a strategic border crossing with Iraq killed six Iran-backed militants Saturday, two members of Iraqi militia groups told The Associated Press. The ...
On the night of 9/10 March 1945, the United States Army Air Forces (USAAF) conducted a devastating firebombing raid on Tokyo, the Japanese capital city.This attack was code-named Operation Meetinghouse by the USAAF and is known as the Tokyo Great Air Raid (東京大空襲, Tōkyō dai-kūshū) in Japan. [1]