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

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 ).

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.

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

Bombing raids continued, a B-29 raid on Bangkok destroying two key power plants on 14 April 1945 .; nevertheless, the Seri Thai network was effective in the rescue of downed allied airmen.

Bombing raids either needed to have fighter escort, which was difficult given the range, or had to attack at night when the enemy fighters could not see them.

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.

1941: Bombing raids on Clydebank, 500 killed

Bombing raids on London, perhaps directed at the leader of the Free French Forces, destroyed a wing of the Lycée, which was rebuilt to provide students with modern science laboratories and multipurpose classrooms as well as a spacious lobby at 35 Cromwell Road.

The Bombing of Sofia in World War II, 1944

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

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.

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.

* 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.

* 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.

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

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 ).

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.

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

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

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

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.

Bombing limitations were imposed by President Lyndon Johnson for geopolitical reasons, as he surmised that bombing Soviet and Chinese ships in port and killing Soviet advisers would bring the Soviets more directly into the war and destabilize the European Cold War.

* " United States Strategic Bombing Survey Summary Report ( European War )", Washington, 30 September 1945

* " United States Strategic Bombing Survey Summary Report ( Pacific War )", Washington, 1 July 1946

The Effects of Strategic Bombing on the German War Economy.

* 1938 League of Nations declaration for the " Protection of Civilian Populations Against Bombing From the Air in Case of War "

To Destroy a City: Strategic Bombing and its Human Consequences in World War II.

Sahat kula, an Ottoman Empire | Ottoman clock tower, one of the very few Ottoman landmarks that survived Bombing of Podgorica in World War II | WW2 bombings

Bombing of the city during World War I brought some damage to buildings, but greater devastation occurred during World War II on May 14, 1940, when almost the entire city centre was destroyed, leaving only the walls of the collegiate church standing.