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A Siren Tour was a night-time mission by the RAF Bomber Command, mostly in northern Cambridgeshire, involving three or four two-engined fast bomber aircraft, to set the German air-raid sirens off in the middle of the night, so waking up the whole German town at three o'clock in the morning.
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Air raid sirens at 12:15 am on 7 May marked the beginning of a second night of bombing. Initially, incendiary bombs were dropped around the perimeter of the town. The second wave attacked primarily the east end and centre of Greenock; the distillery in Ingleston Street had been set alight in the first wave, causing a huge fire which acted as a beacon for the rest of the bomber force.
Image of the destroyed old city; in the background the Lorenzkirche (1945) Damages from air raids after 2 January 1945. The bombing of Nuremberg was a series of air raids carried out by allied forces of the Royal Air Force (RAF) and the United States Army Air Forces (USAAF) that caused heavy damage throughout the city from 1940 through 1945.
Booms and air raid sirens sounded across Israel early Sunday after Iran launched hundreds of drones, ballistic missiles and cruise missiles in an unprecedented revenge mission that pushed the ...
During the latter stages of World War II, Pforzheim, a town in southwestern Germany, was bombed several times. The largest raid, one of the most devastating area bombardments of the war, was carried out by the Royal Air Force (RAF) on the evening of February 23, 1945. Some 17,600 people, or 31.4% of the town's population, were killed.
The latest “warning day” was conducted after an embarrassing flop in 2020, when the country held its first such test in 30 years and many civil defense sirens around Germany didn't go off.
The newspaper Freiburger Zeitung described it on 11 May 1940 as a "malicious air raid" [3] by the enemy. In the course of this "sneaky, cowardly air raid against all laws of humanity and international law", [3] the newspaper continued "24 civilians were overtaken by death". At the same time the incident was used to justify further attacks ...