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unusual facts about bombing raid



Cynthia Elbaum

On assignment for Time magazine during the start of the first war in Chechnya, Cynthia was photographing in the streets of Grozny, the capital of the breakaway republic, when she was killed in a Russian bombing raid.


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1943 Michigan Wolverines football team

After crashing in the jungle in Brazil in April, Harmon was credited in August 1943 (erroneously according to later accounts) with shooting down a Japanese Zero in an air battle after a bombing raid on a dock area and shipping in Hong Kong.

Aegyptosaurus

The fossils were stored together in Munich, but were obliterated when an Allied bombing raid destroyed the museum where they were kept in 1944, during World War II.

Allum Green

During the night of 5/6 September 1940 it was the scene of a Luftwaffe bombing raid, which resulted in the deaths of four British Army soldiers of the RAOC (Royal Army Ordnance Corps) and 14 men were injured.

Armstrong Whitworth Whitley

With Hampdens, the Whitley made the first bombing raid on German soil on the night of 19/20 March 1940, attacking the Hornum seaplane base on the Island of Sylt.

Bill Edrich

On 12 August 1941 he participated in a low-level daylight attack by Bristol Blenheim bombers against power stations in the Cologne area, described by the Daily Telegraph as "the RAF's most audacious and dangerous low-level bombing raid".

David Wright O'Brien

O’Brien died at age twenty-six, while flying a bombing raid over Berlin.

Doolittle

Doolittle Raid, a World War II bombing raid on Tokyo led by Jimmy Doolittle

Edward Sismore

Operation Jericho was a low-level bombing raid on Amiens Prison in German-occupied France.

George Salaman

He was transferred to RAF Bomber Command HQ at High Wycombe and planned the infamous Operation Millennium bombing raid on Cologne.

Goodwin Sands

A Dornier Do 17 Z2 made an emergency landing in the sea over the Sands on 26 August 1940 after a bombing raid.

Jerry Yulsman

Serving in North Africa during World War II, he was promoted to Master Sergeant, and on August 1, 1943, he flew in Operation Tidal Wave, a bombing raid on the Romanian oil refineries of Ploeşti, which were a major source of oil for the Nazi war machine.

Josef Wurmheller

On 23 September, he was wounded by bomb splinters while making an emergency landing in his Fw 190 A-6 during a bombing raid at Vannes-Meucon.

Messerschmitt Me 410

Several were built, but like many other attempts at wood construction by the German aviation industry late in World War II, the loss of the Goldschmitt Tego film factory in Wuppertal, in a Royal Air Force nighttime bombing raid, meant the acidic replacement adhesives available were too corrosive to the materials being bonded, and the wooden portions tended to fail.

Military history of South Africa during World War II

The converted Junkers Ju 86s of 12 Squadron, South African Air Force, carried out the first bombing raid of the campaign on a concentration of tanks at Moyale at 8am on 11 June 1940, mere hours after Italy's declaration of war.

Nijmegen railway station

It was extensively rebuilt after the war since the original station was severely damaged by a US bombing raid in February 1944 and during Operation Market Garden in September 1944.

Old 666

A few days later on a daylight bombing raid over Rabaul, Old 666 came in so low it was brushing the roofs of the housetops.

Operation Black Buck

The news of the bombing raid was reported on the BBC World Service before either the Vulcan or the last tanker arrived at Ascension.

Where Are You Now, My Son?

One side of the album featured recordings Baez made during a US bombing raid on Hanoi over Christmas 1972.

Willi Biesenbach

Willi Biesenbach was killed on 16 November 1944 in Jülich, Germany during an Allied bombing-raid.