On the night of July 27, 1943, the city of Hamburg was consumed by one of the deadliest firestorms in history. Operation ...

If you ask the sharp-witted Vera Scholtis, 101, what is her secret to a long life, you might get several answers. She eats ...

Online videos point to an interest in experimenting with homemade explosives. Guy Bartkus -- the lone suspect in a fatal car bombing that took place outside of a fertility center in Palm Springs ...

The bombing campaign dramatically increased in intensity in 1943, following the Casablanca ... as typified by the sustained attack on Hamburg at the end of July, which killed 45,000 people ...

the bombing of Germany up to now has been mainly an R.A.F. show. The U.S. bomber command, short of aircraft and crews during 1943, could hit hard but not often enough. R.A.F. bombers dropped six ...

Operation Chastise, as the Dambusters’ May 1943 bouncing bomb attack ... but saturation bombing continued apace with Berlin, Dresden, Hamburg and Pforzheim among the cities reduced to rubble ...

During the bombing of Hamburg in 1943, the death toll from fire and suffocation has been estimated at 46,000 including 5,000 children, and nearly a million people were made homeless. Image caption ...

The St Pauli complex housed up to 25,000 civilians including during the Allied bombing raids of Operation Gomorrah in July 1943, which devastated Hamburg. Brigitte Schulze, a 72-year-old pensioner ...

As a teenage conscript in the German Army, he barely escaped death during an Allied bombing raid on Hamburg in 1943. The horrors of the war led him to chart a path between those who insisted that ...

In 1943, an estimated 40,000 civilians were killed in the two-day Bombing of Hamburg, known by the code name “Operation Gomorrah.” Initially, US decision-makers had other ideas. Equipped with new, ...

Britain’s popular newspapers greeted Christmas 1943 with the fond hope ... had been removed from office. Intense bombing raids had obliterated much of Hamburg, dealt colossal damage to industry ...