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In July 1943, the Allied forces unleashed ... Trails of light from incendiary bombs fill the skies over Hamburg during the Allies’ weeklong bombing campaign. The attack marked a shift from ...
On the night of July 27, 1943, the city of Hamburg was consumed by one of the deadliest firestorms in history. Operation ...
The system was called Window, and it would be used for the first time on July 24th, 1943, in a bombing raid over Hamburg, in what would become a devastating blow to this major German city.
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 ...
The last 400 Jews permitted to remain in the German city of Hamburg were deported shortly before the huge Allied air raids on the city, it was reported here today from Switzerland. Previously ...
On May 6, 1943, Newman and nine other crew members of a B-24D Liberator were flying a bombing mission at Reggio di Calabria harbor in Sicily. While heading to the target, the plane experienced ...