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    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...
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  • this directive replaced general directive No. 5, that is often referred to as the Area Bombing Directive. Missing from the Bomber command directive are...
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    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...
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    strategic bombing of railways, harbours, cities, workers' and civilian housing, and industrial districts in enemy territory. Strategic bombing as a military...
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    Dehousing (category World War II strategic bombing)
    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...
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    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...
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     59. United States Strategic Bombing Survey (June 1946). "U. S. Strategic Bombing Survey: The Effects of the Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki"...
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    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...
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    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...
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    Fire Department firefighters who responded to Hickam Field during the bombing in Honolulu, becoming the only fire department members on American soil...
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  • Thumbnail for Bombing of Kobe in World War II
    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...
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    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...
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    Italian bombers during the bombing of Haifa, September 1940. United Kingdom portal Italian Royal Air Force (Regia Aeronautica) Bombing of Bahrain in World War...
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    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...
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    precision bombing. Japanese cities were specified as the secondary target, with area bombing being authorized for use against them. The directive also indicated...
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    military significance was gradually abandoned in favour of "area bombing", the large-scale bombing of German cities to destroy housing and civilian infrastructure...
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    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...
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  • Baedeker Blitz (category World War II strategic bombing conducted by Germany)
    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...
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    followed the Area Bombing Directive of 5 February 1942, Directive No.4, issued by the British Air Ministry.[citation needed] This directive ordered RAF...
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    Firebombing (redirect from Fire-bombing)
    Firebombing is a bombing technique designed to damage a target, generally an urban area, through the use of fire, caused by incendiary devices, rather...
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    related to Darwin bombings. Library resources about Bombing of Darwin Resources in your library Resources in other libraries Bombing of Darwin, Northern...
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    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...
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    aircraft. An AN/APS-13 was used as a radar altimeter during the Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki by the 509th Composite Group, USAAF. Electronics...
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    The bombing of Chongqing (simplified Chinese: 重庆大轰炸; traditional Chinese: 重慶大轟炸, Japanese: 重慶爆撃), from 18 February 1938 to 19 December 1944, was a series...
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    German bombing of houses on Donore Terrace in the South Circular Road area. A number of people were injured, but no one was killed in these bombings. Later...
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    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...
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    a conventional "pumpkin bomb" in the Yagoto area of Nagoya as part of a bombing raid to train for the upcoming nuclear bombing mission to Hiroshima. Nagoya...
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    head Arthur Harris's concept of a Strategic Bombing Offensive. Bomber Command's poor performance in bombing accuracy during 1941 had led to calls for the...
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    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...
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    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...
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