The Area Bombing Directive was a directive issued by the Air Ministry of the War Cabinet to the Royal Air Force (RAF) during World War II on 14 February...

this directive replaced general directive No. 5, that is often referred to as the Area Bombing Directive. Missing from the Bomber command directive are...

Carpet bombing, also known as saturation bombing, is a large area bombardment done in a progressive manner to inflict damage in every part of a selected...

defended. The bombing followed the Area Bombing Directive issued to the RAF on 14 February 1942 which authorised the targeting of civilian areas. Lübeck, a...

strategic bombing of railways, harbours, cities, workers' and civilian housing, and industrial districts in enemy territory. Strategic bombing as a military...

carrier-based long-range bombers, in April 1942. However, strategic bombing and urban area bombing of Japan only began at scale in 1944 after the long-range B-29...

Fire Department firefighters who responded to Hickam Field during the bombing in Honolulu, becoming the only fire department members on American soil...

 59. United States Strategic Bombing Survey (June 1946). "U. S. Strategic Bombing Survey: The Effects of the Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki"...

precision bombing. Japanese cities were specified as the secondary target, with area bombing being authorized for use against them. The directive also indicated...

Europe. Documentation on the strategy based on the effects of the Area bombing directive issued in February 1942, after it was accepted by the Churchill...

Milan was subjected to heavy bombing during World War II, being the most bombed city in Northern Italy and one of the most bombed cities in the country. During...

August 14, 1943 (a day after the last Allied bombing raid) by the defending Italian forces. The first bombing raid was on July 19, 1943, when 690 aircraft...

The bombing of Kobe (Kōbe dai-kūshū) on March 16 and 17, 1945, was part of the strategic bombing air raids on Japan campaign waged by the United States...

Air Force's (RAF) area bombing offensive against Nazi Germany as a result of the area bombing directive, starting with the bombing of Lübeck in March...

deadliest bombing took place on 16 July 1944, with 1,453 killed and 4,525 wounded. History of Munich Bombing of Augsburg in World War II Strategic bombing during...

homes in the surrounding area. This became known as "area bombing". This change was not driven by the inaccuracy of bombing at this stage, but by studying...

military significance was gradually abandoned in favour of "area bombing", the large-scale bombing of German cities to destroy housing and civilian infrastructure...

related to Darwin bombings. Library resources about Bombing of Darwin Resources in your library Resources in other libraries Bombing of Darwin, Northern...

followed the Area Bombing Directive of 5 February 1942, Directive No.4, issued by the British Air Ministry.[citation needed] This directive ordered RAF...

general was a "primary target" designated for area bombing by the February 1942 British Area bombing directive. As part of the campaign in 1943 known as the...

Italian bombers during the bombing of Haifa, September 1940. United Kingdom portal Italian Royal Air Force (Regia Aeronautica) Bombing of Bahrain in World War...

rather than aiming for any specific factory or industry under the Area Bombing directive. At the same time it invested in navigational aids and target marking...

The bombing of Dresden was a joint British and American aerial bombing attack on the city of Dresden, the capital of the German state of Saxony, during...

The bombing of Osaka (大阪大空襲, Ōsaka daikūshū) during the Pacific War was part of the strategic bombing air raids on Japan campaign waged by the United...

reached the staff of Luftflotte 2 in Berlin. Instead of a precision bombing, a carpet bombing by Heinkel He 111 bombers was carried out, with only a Gruppe...

months before the end of the war the historic city was bombed as part of Britain's Area Bombing Directive in order to undermine German civilian morale. As a...

1942, there were six bombings that resulted from a change in the Allies' bombing strategy. The Allies changed from strategic bombing that primarily targeted...

earthquake bombing, which had previously been rejected, came to be accepted by 'Bomber' Harris. Prior to this raid, bombing had used the tactic of area bombardment...

warehouses with an area of 50,000 cubic feet (1,400 m3) and sawmills or timber yards with more than 50,000 cubic feet of timber. Incendiary bombs were the main...

old town was a well-suited destination for the purposes of the area bombing directive of the Royal Air Force (RAF). The attacks would have considerable...