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  • Thumbnail for Strategic bombing during World War II
    strategic bombing of railways, harbours, cities, workers' and civilian housing, and industrial districts in enemy territory. Strategic bombing as a military...
    190 KB (22,416 words) - 10:06, 21 June 2024
  • space, or over a given territory. A bomber offensive is sometimes also known as a strategic bombing offensive and was prominently used by the Allies on...
    7 KB (884 words) - 19:08, 30 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Combined Bomber Offensive
    The Combined Bomber Offensive (CBO) was an Allied offensive of strategic bombing during World War II in Europe. The primary portion of the CBO was directed...
    54 KB (5,577 words) - 20:54, 26 June 2024
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    bombing has been used to this end. The phrase "terror bombing" entered the English lexicon towards the end of World War II and many strategic bombing...
    69 KB (8,931 words) - 23:04, 13 July 2024
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    campaign in Europe), to the Polish Campaign, as well as in a strategic bombing offensive and in the adjoining Mediterranean and Middle East theatre. Germany...
    61 KB (6,601 words) - 22:58, 30 July 2024
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    Germany's side. As part of this pressure, the Soviets initiated a bombing offensive against Finnish territory in winter 1944. On February 22, Soviet bombers...
    5 KB (577 words) - 22:37, 20 April 2024
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    advanced towards Al Mawasi after intensely bombing Rafah overnight according to residents, though the IDF denied bombing inside the designated humanitarian zone...
    253 KB (25,206 words) - 03:59, 5 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Bombing of Cologne in World War II
    head Arthur Harris's concept of a Strategic Bombing Offensive. Bomber Command's poor performance in bombing accuracy during 1941 had led to calls for the...
    37 KB (1,971 words) - 05:31, 23 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Charles Portal, 1st Viscount Portal of Hungerford
    During his time as Chief he continuously supported the strategic bombing offensive against Germany, and advocated the formation of the Pathfinder Force...
    26 KB (2,490 words) - 01:29, 26 April 2024
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    details of the extent of the bombing of Cambodia, as well as of Laos and Vietnam. According to the data, the air force began bombing the rural regions of Cambodia...
    42 KB (5,562 words) - 07:03, 26 July 2024
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    peace talks unless the bombing were stopped first, as they kept saying repeatedly, and persuaded Johnson to extend the bombing pause into January. At...
    165 KB (21,087 words) - 12:41, 4 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Avro Lancaster
    1942 and as the strategic bombing offensive over Europe gathered momentum, it was the main aircraft for the night-time bombing campaigns that followed....
    122 KB (15,209 words) - 12:21, 25 July 2024
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    a possible end to the American bombing of the North. Only in the eyes of the militants, therefore, did the offensive become a "go for broke" effort....
    136 KB (18,337 words) - 06:09, 1 August 2024
  • the German night-bombing offensive and proved to be fairly effective, but the tactics for using the system in a widespread bombing effort were not yet...
    30 KB (4,325 words) - 07:49, 5 May 2024
  • Baedeker Blitz (category World War II strategic bombing conducted by Germany)
    for bombing. Luftwaffe commanders planned the raids in response to the increasing effectiveness of the Royal Air Force's (RAF) area bombing offensive against...
    21 KB (2,489 words) - 11:32, 22 June 2024
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    from precision bombing to area bombardment with incendiaries. Like most strategic bombing during World War II, the aim of the air offensive against Japan...
    219 KB (25,222 words) - 20:26, 2 August 2024
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    quantity, it might have had a significant effect on the strategic night bombing offensive of the Royal Air Force; however, only 294 of all models were built...
    36 KB (4,915 words) - 01:32, 25 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Operation Steinbock
    strategic bombing campaign day and night against German industrial cities. In retaliation, Adolf Hitler ordered the Luftwaffe to prepare a bombing operation...
    126 KB (17,345 words) - 01:57, 27 July 2024
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    against Allied strategic bombing. By contrast, Britain and the United States took an approach that greatly emphasized strategic bombing and (to a lesser degree)...
    154 KB (21,062 words) - 11:30, 8 July 2024
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    Battle of Britain (category World War II strategic bombing)
    August, and giving the go-ahead to the planned bombing offensive. On 3 September Göring planned to bomb London daily, with General Albert Kesselring's...
    205 KB (26,408 words) - 04:07, 5 August 2024
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