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The Blitz was a German bombing campaign against the United Kingdom for eight months from 7 September 1940 to 11 May 1941 during the Second World War. [4]The Germans conducted mass air attacks against industrial targets, towns, and cities, beginning with raids on London towards the end of the Battle of Britain in 1940 (a battle for daylight air superiority between the Luftwaffe and the Royal ...
The development of the 2.2 lb (1 kg) B-1E Elektronbrandbombe incendiary bomb, led to a project, Der Feuerplan (The Fire Plan), which involved the use of all of the German heavy bomber fleet, flying in waves over London and Paris and dropping all the incendiaries that they could carry, then returning to base to rearm and attack again until they ...
Operation Steinbock or Operation Capricorn (German: Unternehmen Steinbock), sometimes called the Baby Blitz or Little Blitz, was a strategic bombing campaign by the German Air Force (the Luftwaffe) during the Second World War. It targeted southern England and lasted from January to May 1944. Steinbock was the last strategic air offensive by the ...
The main German bombing across the UK occurred until June 1941. [1] Around 40,000 people were killed. The German raids began as daylight raids, but would later be mostly at night from September 1940 onwards. The Luftwaffe dropped around 36,800 tonnes in 1940 and around 21,800 tonnes in 1941. It would drop around 3,000 tonnes per year from then on.
Germany began aerial bombing of British cities immediately after the British declaration of war on Germany in September 1939, while the first British bombing raids against Germany were on the night of 15/16 May 1940, with 78 bombers against oil targets, 9 against steelworks and 9 against marshalling yards, all military and industrial targets in ...
The change in emphasis of the bombing from RAF bases to bombing London, however, turned Adlerangriff into a short-range strategic bombing operation. The effect of the switch in strategy is disputed. Some historians argue the change in strategy lost the Luftwaffe the opportunity of winning the air battle or air superiority. [46]
Zeppelin LZ 38 (designated LZ 38) was Zeppelin P Class airship of the German Imperial Army. It was the first to bomb London, United Kingdom. The zeppelin raid caused outrage in London and vows of vengeance as shown for this made for the Daily Chronicle by Frank Brangwyn The control room of Zeppelin LZ 38 by Felix Schwormstädt Zeppelin LZ 38 near its hangar 1st Zeppelin raid takes starts 11:00 ...
The Blitz (shortened from German Blitzkrieg ' lightning war ') was the sustained strategic bombing of Great Britain and Northern Ireland by Nazi Germany between 7 September 1940 and 10 May 1941, [4] during the Second World War. London, the United Kingdom's capital city, was bombed by the Luftwaffe for 57 consecutive nights. More than one ...