Allied bombing
WWII aerial campaign
Allied bombing refers to aerial attacks conducted by the Allied powers, particularly during World War II.
The term encompasses strategic campaigns like the bombing of German industrial centers and the firebombing of Dresden, as well as Pacific theater operations including the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
The city never fully recovered from the Allied bombing raids.
- HiroshimaFirst nuclear-struck city
- mushroom cloudDistinctive nuclear blast formation
- D-Day1944 Normandy invasion
- war effortOrganized wartime resource mobilization
- P-51 MustangAmerican WWII fighter aircraft
night raid · World War II · flak · shrapnel · air raid · air raid siren · VE Day · blast · rubble · crater · Dresden · detonation · smoke · ruin · debris · wreckage · Pearl Harbor · fire
- Nazi GermanyAdolf Hitler, Hitler, Nazi, Nazis, Nazi Party
- Fascist ItalyMussolini, fascism, Blackshirts, March on Rome, fascist regime
- Italy WWIIAnzio, Sicily, Salerno, Naples, Florence
- Low Countries WWIIArnhem, Bastogne, Antwerp, Brussels, Battle of the Bulge
- Southern ItalyNaples, Vesuvius, Sicily, Etna, Amalfi
- WWII GermanyNazi Germany, Nazi Party, Nazi regime, Third Reich, Wehrmacht
Allied bombingground assault
Attack by foot soldiers
land invasion · ground offensive · trench warfare · tank warfare · naval bombardment
Allied bombingMarshall Plan
Postwar American economic assistance
humanitarian aid · relief efforts · liberation · peacekeeping · economic recovery
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