WWII bombing
Aerial attacks, 1940s
WWII bombing refers to the aerial bombardment campaigns of World War II, including strategic bombing of cities and industrial targets.
The term evokes both Allied operations like the firebombing of Dresden and Tokyo, and Axis attacks like the London Blitz.
It encompasses the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki that ended the Pacific war: My grandfather survived the WWII bombing of his hometown.
- blitzSwift, overwhelming offensive
- air raidAerial military attack
- V-1 rocketGerman cruise missile
- night raidAttack launched after dark
- Enola GayHistoric atomic bomber
firebombing · incendiary · raid · shelter · home front · siren · rubble · devastation · payload · aircraft · B-29 · flak · target · explosion · mushroom cloud · ground zero · atomic · strategic
WWII bombinghand-to-hand combat
Fighting without distance weapons
ground combat · trench warfare · close-quarters combat · naval warfare · submarine warfare
WWII bombingMarshall Plan
Postwar American economic assistance
postwar reconstruction · humanitarian aid · Berlin Airlift · relief operations · rebuilding
WWII bombingarmistice
Agreement to cease hostilities
peace treaty · Marshall Plan · postwar reconstruction · peace negotiations · ceasefire
WWII, World War II, War, II, world, war, wars, warring, warred