Almost 800 RAF aircraft staged a bombing raid over Hamburg, and the concentrated assault combined with the especially dry conditions, causing a firestorm to erupt.

It contains lots of facts about the number of dead from the Hamburg bombing, the area destroyed, and how much it cost both the Germans and the Allies. On May 27, 1943, Harris picked a target for the RAF. Conceived by Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Air Chief Marshal Arthur "Bomber" Harris, Operation Gomorrah called for a coordinated, sustained bombing campaign against the German port city of Hamburg. Mediendatei abspielen. On 2-3 Apr 1945, Lübeck was hit by RAF bombers … That aspect was fascinating. The colossal tornado of flame reached wind-speeds of 150mph and leapt over 1,000 feet into the sky. On 24-25 Jul 1943, 13 Mosquito aircraft bombed Lübeck as diversion for the main target of Hamburg (see Bombing of Hamburg later in this article). In three nights, forty-one thousand people were killed. The difference with Hamburg and Dresden is that the Germans were on the receiving end. In World War II approximately 410,000 German civilians were killed by Allied air raids. Gomorrah - with eight days of bombing by the RAF and USAAF from 24 July - would prove these theories. It also has a number of first-hand accounts from the survivors of the holocaust that was the firestorm. The colossal tornado of flame reached wind-speeds of 150mph and leapt over 1,000 feet into the sky. It contained shipyards, oil refineries, and facilities for maintaining U-boats. Bombing of Hamburg in World War II The Allied bombing of Hamburg during World War II included numerous attacks on civilians and civic infrastructure. Mission 524: Hamburg oil refineries bombed at Hamburg/Deutsche (54), Hamburg/Eband (33), Hamburg/Rhenania (61), Hamburg/Rhenania-Ossag (62), Hamburg/Schlieman (32), and Hamburg/Schulau (72 B-17s). The Fire: The Bombing of Germany, 1940-1945 [Friedrich, Jörg, Brown, Allison] on Amazon.com. In the event, a number of circumstances magnified Hamburg's suffering. The bombing of Hamburg in July 1943 generated the first large firestorm and killed more than 30,000 civilians. Hamburg, Germany. The bombing of Hamburg in World War II (1943) was among the most devastating attacks on Germany during the war. The Allied bombing of Hamburg during World War II included numerous attacks on civilians and civic infrastructure. Attack on Hamburg.jpg 754 × 800; 56 KB. Every street had to have a shelter, which you could reach in five minutes. The first bombings of Hamburg started in 1942. As a large city and industrial centre, Hamburg's shipyards, U-boat pens, and the Hamburg-Harburg area oil refineries were attacked throughout the war. Bombing of Hamburg.ogv 1 min 36 s, 400 × 288; 4,87 MB.

Memorial to the bombing of Hamburg in WW2. Hamburg was Germany’s second largest city, producing warships like Bismarck and churning out U-boats–400 during the whole war.

In the early hours of 25 July 1943, nearly 800 RAF Halifaxes and Lancasters launched a 50-minute bombing raid on the Third Reich’s second largest city, Hamburg. Français : Durant la Seconde Guerre Mondiale , et spécialement en 1943, Hambourg (Allemagne) a été sérieusement endommagé par des bombardements aériens , avec près de 50 000 civils tués. Why Was Dresden So Heavily Bombed? On the street where we lived, there was a public air-raid shelter. Round-the-clock bombing was becoming a reality.