The Blitz was Nazi Germany's sustained aerial bombing campaign against Britain in World War Two. The raids killed 43,000 civilians and lasted for eight months, petering out when Hitler began to ...
Even Caernarfonshire, which was near the flightpath of bombers heading to Liverpool, saw five deaths in bombing raids over the course of the war. In April 1941, 27 people lost their lives in a ...
The attack on Ploiești, a sweeping, low-level bombing raid, took a heavy toll on the US airmen involved: 225 of them were killed, earning the day the grim nickname Black Sunday. Many of those ...
On 13 February 1945, Allied forces began a three-day bombing raid on Dresden, killing as many as 25,000 people and triggering firestorms that swept through the city centre. The British Royal ...
It remains one of the most destructive conventional bombing raids in history, often overshadowed by the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki later that year. That night, Nishio and her family ...
Even Caernarfonshire, which was near the flightpath of bombers heading to Liverpool, saw five deaths in bombing raids over the course of the war. In April 1941, 27 people lost their lives in a ...