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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.
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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.
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.
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.
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 ).
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 and War
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
* 1938 League of Nations declaration for the " Protection of Civilian Populations Against Bombing From the Air in Case of War "
Bombing and 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.
Bombing and refers
The Russell Street Bombing refers to the 27 March 1986 bombing of the Russell Street Police Headquarters complex in Russell Street, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
Bombing and both
In September, Nawaf and Mihdhar both moved into the house of FBI informant Abdussattar Shaikh, although he did not report the pair as suspicious .< ref > Mihdhar is believed to have left the apartment in early October, less than two weeks before the USS Cole Bombing.
Bombing by both Republican and Nationalist aircraft, including Ju 52s from the Legion, helped ensure a stalemate.
The Corr siblings were awarded honorary MBEs in 2005 by Queen Elizabeth II in recognition of both their musical talent and their charitable work raising money for Freeman Hospital in Newcastle upon Tyne, victims of the Omagh Bombing, and other charities.
Bombing and Strategic
Official estimates from the United States Strategic Bombing Survey put the figures at 220, 000 people killed.
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.
The US Strategic Bombing Survey later estimated that nearly 88, 000 people died in this one raid, 41, 000 were injured, and over a million residents lost their homes.
The Strategic Bombing Survey of the atomic attacks, released in June 1946, used the term liberally, defining it as: " For convenience, the term ' ground zero ' will be used to designate the point on the ground directly beneath the point of detonation, or ' air zero.
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.
* Messenger, Charles, " Bomber " Harris and the Strategic Bombing Offensive, 1939-1945 ( 1984 ), defends Harris
The post-war U. S. Strategic Bombing Survey studies supported the overall notion of strategic bombing, but underlined many of its shortcomings as well.
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