* Bombing of Singapore ( 1941 )

The Bombing of Sofia in World War II, 1944

* 1944 – World War II: Bombing of Tokyo – The first bombing raid against the Japanese capital from the east and by land is carried out by 88 American aircraft.

His books of poetry include Poems 1913 and 1914 ( 1914 ); Poems Translated from the French ( 1914 ); Three Poems ( 1916 ); The Barn ( 1916 ); The Silver Bird of Herndyke Mill ; Stane Street ; The Gods of the World Beneath, ( 1916 ); The Harbingers ( 1916 ); Pastorals ( 1916 ); The Waggoner and Other Poems ( 1920 ); The Shepherd, and Other Poems of Peace and War ( 1922 ); Old Homes ( 1922 ); To Nature: New Poems ( 1923 ); Dead Letters ( 1923 ); Masks of Time: A New Collection of Poems Principally Meditative ( 1925 ); Japanese Garland ( 1928 ); Retreat ( 1928 ); Winter Nights: A Reminiscence ( 1928 ); Near and Far: New Poems ( 1929 ); A Summer's Fancy ( 1930 ); To Themis: Poems on Famous Trials ( 1931 ); Constantia and Francis: An Autumn Evening, ( 1931 ); Halfway House: A Miscellany of New Poems, ( 1932 ); Choice or Chance: New Poems ( 1934 ); Verses: To H. R. H. The Duke of Windsor, ( 1936 ); An Elegy and Other Poems ( 1937 ); On Several Occasions ( 1938 ); Poems, 1930-1940 ( 1940 ); Shells by a Stream ( 1944 ); After the Bombing, and Other Short Poems ( 1949 ); Eastward: A Selection of Verses Original and Translated ( 1950 ); Records of Friendship ( 1950 ); A Hong Kong House ( 1959 ); Poems on Japan ( 1967 ).

Because of intensive construction of warships, A. G. „ Weser ” often was target of allied air-raids during the Bombing of Bremen in World War II, mainly in 1944 and 1945.

1944 September: Bombing of German oil facilities during World War II

Accidentally the heart of the town was bombed out, during the Bombing of Hengelo on 6 and 7 October 1944, killing several hundred people.

During 1944 – 45 he was director of the Strategic Bombing Survey in London.

Bombing victims in Braunschweig, 1944

The " European Theater of Operations, United States Army ," as a military command, should not be confused with the European Theatre of World War II which is often defined to include the years before the US entered the war, the Italian campaign, the European Strategic Bombing Campaign, the European Eastern Front, all of the European Western Front in 1944 and 1945, as well and other actions which did not involve the use of American forces.

She was vilified for speaking out against saturation bombing of German cities through her 1944 booklet Massacre by Bombing.

In 1973 Galland appeared in the British television documentary series The World at War, in episodes four and twelve, " Alone ( May 1940 – May 1941 )" and " Whirlwind: Bombing Germany ( September 1939 – April 1944 )".

Many of the residents of Urayasu perished during the 1944 Bombing of Tokyo.

The city was sporadically bombed by the Allies: on July 4, 1944, it was struck by a section of the U. S. Fifteenth Air Force ( see Bombing of Romania in World War II ).

During 1944 – 45 he was director of the Strategic Bombing Survey in London.

From 1944 to 1946, Nitze served as director and then as Vice Chairman of the Strategic Bombing Survey for which President Harry S. Truman awarded him the Legion of Merit.

* Vice chairman of the U. S. Strategic Bombing Survey ( 1944 – 1946 ).

The Bombing of Warsaw in World War II refers both to the Strategic bombing campaign of Warsaw by the Luftwaffe during the siege of Warsaw in the Invasion of Poland in 1939 and to the German bombing raids during the Warsaw Uprising in 1944.

Bombing victims laid out in an exhibition hall, Autumn 1944

From November 1943 to July 1944 there was also a Bombing and Gunnery Defence Training Flight in attendance with several Wellingtons, Spitfires, Hurricanes, plus a few Martinet tug aircraft, all employed in brushing up the skills of air gunners on air to air exercises.

A Avro Lancaster | Lancaster drops a “ cookie ” ( left ), incendiary bombs and bundles of incendiary bombs ( right ) on Bombing of Duisburg in World War II | Duisburg on 15 October 1944

* Bombing Duren on 16 November 1944 to aid a major breakthrough of the Siegfried Line

In the spring of 1944, it was the target of heavy RAF and USAF bombings ( see Bombing of Bucharest in World War II ).

In 1944, during World War II, the church was destroyed along with much of the Frankfurt wider city centre in the Allied Bombing of Frankfurt.

* 1942 – World War II: Bombing of Calcutta by the Japanese.

* 1941 – Four thousand Chongqing residents are asphyxiated in a bomb shelter during the Bombing of Chongqing.

* 1945 – The Bombing of Tokyo by the United States Army Air Forces began, one of the most destructive bombing raids in history.

* 1942 – The Bombing of Lübeck in World War II is the first major success for the RAF Bomber Command against Germany and a German city.

* 1943 – Bombing of the Vatican.

* 1987 – Remembrance Day Bombing: A Provisional IRA bomb explodes in Enniskillen, Northern Ireland during a ceremony honouring those who had died in wars involving British forces.

* 1991 – Bombing of Banski dvori in Zagreb.

* April 21 – Worst Bombing of Aberdeen in WW2.

A. C. Grayling in his book Among the Dead Cities makes the point that as the Area Bombing Directive issued to the RAF on 14 February 1942, focused on the " morale of the enemy civil population ", Lübeck, with its many timbered medieval buildings, was chosen because the RAF " Air Staff were eager to experiment with a bombing technique using a high proportion of incendiaries " to help them carry out the directive – the RAF were well aware that the technique was effective against cities and not against industrial targets because cities such as Coventry had been subject to such attacks by the Luftwaffe during the Blitz.

* Smith, John T. Rolling Thunder: The Strategic Bombing Campaign, North Vietnam, 1965 – 1968.

It was repackaged for export as The Investigation – Inside a Terrorist Bombing, and first shown on American television on 22 April 1990.

* July 22, 1916 – San Francisco Preparedness Day Bombing.

* May 18 – 18 May 2007 Hyderabad Bombing: 9 people are killed in a bomb blast at the Mecca Masjid mosque in the Indian city of Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh.

Bombing attacks were carried out by the Royal Flying Corps ( RFC ) on Beersheba, Tell esh Sheria to the north west, and on the junction of the Beersheba and Jaffa – Jerusalem lines.

* September 7 – The U. S. Marine Corpss 1st Marine Aviation Force, building up in the Calais-Dunkirk area of France to operate as an element of the U. S. Navys Northern Bombing Group, takes delivery of its first bomber.

* 14 February 1998 – Bombing in Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India.

* 12 October 2002 – Bombing in Bali nightclub.

* 13 September 2008 – Bombing series in Delhi, India.