* 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.

The Bombing of Dresden was a strategic military attack on the city of Dresden, the capital of the German state of Saxony, that took place in the final months of the Second World War.

The German raids followed the Royal Air Force's bombing of the historic, German city of Lübeck in March 1942, which had caused widespread destruction ( see Bombing of Lübeck in World War II ).

Additionally, the U. S. Army established and used the Hammond Bombing and Gunnery Range east of the city.

During World War II, the July 19, 1945 Bombing of Okazaki killed over 200 people and destroyed most of the city.

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 ).

* 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.

Costing $ 7. 7 million to construct, the city was built in 1998 in direct response to the Oklahoma City Bombing which then director G. Kemble Bennett felt highlighted the need for " a world-class facility to train responders in near-lifelike conditions.

; April 26: Bombing of Guernica, the Condor Legion's terror bombing of the city most strongly identified with Basque national identity.

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.

The Preparedness Day Bombing was a bombing in San Francisco, California on July 22, 1916, when the city held a parade in honor of Preparedness Day, in anticipation of the United States ' imminent entry into World War I.

The famous Totentanz by Bernt Notke in Lübeck ’ s Marienkirche ( destroyed during the Allied Bombing of Lübeck in World War II ) presented the dead dancers as very lively and agile, making the impression that they were actually dancing, whereas their living dancing partners looked clumsy and passive.

On April 26, 1937, during the Spanish Civil War, Guernica was the scene of the Bombing of Guernica by the Condor Legion of Nazi Germany's Luftwaffe.

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

* 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.

As a child, he lived in the small town of Lommatzsch, Germany from 1943 to 1945 during World War II, surviving the Dresden Bombing.

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

The difficulty of accessing the region overland from the eastern part of China and the foggy climate hindering the accuracy of Japanese bombing of the Sichuan Basin, made the region the stronghold of Chiang Kai-Shek's Kuomintang government during 1938-45, and led to the Bombing of Chongqing.

The United States Strategic Bombing Survey was a board of experts assembled to produce an impartial assessment of the effects of Anglo-American strategic bombing of Nazi Germany during the European war.

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.

* Thomas Ferebee, bombardier on the Enola Gay during the Bombing of Hiroshima.

He served in the Middle East and was an anti-aircraft gunner during the Bombing of Darwin.

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.

He was the fleet commander during the Bombing of Darwin and his Indian Ocean raid on the British Eastern Fleet was a success, sinking an aircraft carrier, two cruisers and two destroyers, and causing Admiral Sir James Somerville to retreat to East Africa.

The Centennial Olympic Park Bombing was a terrorist bombing on July 27, 1996 in Atlanta, Georgia, United States during the 1996 Summer Olympics, the first of four committed by Eric Robert Rudolph.

In 1958, Colonel Michael Norman Wright McCoy, USAF, commander of the 321st Bombardment Wing died in the crash of a B-47 Stratojet during SAC's annual Bombing and Navigation Competition at Pinecastle.

Saarlandstraße ( today's Stresemannstraße ) looking towards " Askanischer Platz " with the ruin of Berlin Anhalter Bahnhof | Anhalt Station and the tower stump of the " Protestant Saint Luke's Church ", after the Bombing of Berlin in World War II | air raids during World War II, photo taken by Abraham Pisarek.

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

Hiratsuka was largely destroyed on July 16, 1945 during the Bombing of Hiratsuka in World War II.

Bombing raids on February 19 and February 21 of 1945, during World War II, had an even greater impact on the zoo.

The Beirut Barracks Bombing ( October 23, 1983 in Beirut, Lebanon ) occurred during the Lebanese Civil War, when two truck bombs struck separate buildings housing United States and French military forces — members of the Multinational Force in Lebanon — killing 299 American and French servicemen.

On February 13, 2003, during the commemoration of the 58th anniversary of the Bombing of Dresden, inhabitants of Dresden, Germany, including survivors of the firestorm of 1945, joined together with witnesses of the bombing of Guernica to issue an appeal to the people of the world:

The Bombing of Sofia in World War II, 1944

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

Bombing of Hamburg in World War II | Hamburg after the 1943 bombing

The attack on 28 March 1942 created a firestorm, that caused severe damage to the historic centre and the Bombing of Lübeck in World War II destroyed three of the main churches and greater parts of the built-up area.

Bombing in the Second World War destroyed much of the stadium ; the central tunnel in the South Stand was all that remained of that quarter.

* 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 ).

Bombing of Tokyo in World War II, Sumida River | Sumida park, Taitō, Tokyo.

Bombing raids in World War II and urban redevelopment projects in the 1960s and 1970s have left areas with more modern housing, mostly in the shape of low-rise concrete blocks.

The change can be linked to the nationalist fervour generated by Saunders Lewis and the burning of the Bombing School on the Lleyn Peninsula in 1936, along with a sense of crisis generated by World War II.

* Bombing of Hamburg in World War II

* Bombing of Dresden in World War II

* Bombing of London in World War II

* Bombing of Coventry in World War II

* Bombing of Tokyo in World War II

* Bombing of Frampol in World War II

* Bombing of Wieluń in World War II

* Bombing of Warsaw in World War II