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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 the United States Army Air Forces (USAAF) dropped more than 3,900 tons ...
Attacks on buildings and structures in the 1940s (4 C, 78 P) M. 1940s mass shootings (13 C) Attacks on military installations in the 1940s (3 C, 47 P) T.
Three days later, Warsaw was surrounded by the Wehrmacht, and hundreds of thousands of leaflets were dropped on the city, instructing citizens to evacuate the city pending a possible bomber attack. [91] On 25 September the Luftwaffe flew 1,150 sorties and dropped 560 tonnes of high explosive and 72 tonnes of incendiaries.
The United Kingdom and France declared war on Germany in 1939, following the German invasion of Poland, but no major land operations occurred in Western Europe during the period known as the Phoney War in the winter of 1939–1940. During this time, the British and French built up their forces in expectation of a long war, and the Germans ...
It later moves to London. [3] 17 May Germans enter Brussels and also take Antwerp. Paul Reynaud forms new French government, including 84-year-old Marshal Pétain, the French hero of World War I. 18 May Maxime Weygand replaces Maurice Gamelin as commander of the French armed forces. Antwerp captured. [2] The Germans win the Battle of Zeeland ...
Siege of Calais (1940) Battle of Cape Spada; Case Brown; Central Hubei Operation; 1940–1944 insurgency in Chechnya; Bombing of Chongqing; Battle of Clos du Doubs; 1940 Cochinchina uprising; Operation Collar (commando raid) Convoy HX 47; Convoy HX 49; Operation Cycle; Czortków uprising
Six days later, on 28 December 1940, the Berlin Police recovered Gertrude Siewert the morning after she had been assaulted and thrown from the train by Ogorzow. Suffering from exposure and various life-threatening traumas , she was rushed to hospital and died from her injuries the following day.
The target, which was at the extreme range for the planes, demanded a round trip of 1,900 miles (3,100 km) from bases in England. Planes from RAF Skellingthorpe (Lincs) could not return to base and diverted to RAF Tain in northern Scotland after 10 hours and 35 minutes' flying time (cf. 11 hours and 20 minutes' return to base three days later ...