st paul’s cathedral on fire, london, 29 december 1940
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St Paul’s Cathedral on fire, London, 29 December 1940. Firestorm after Operation Gomorrah in Hamburg, July 1943. Dresden before and after bombing of 13-15 February 1945. Conventional Bombing Damage to German cities (*= population over 500,000). - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
St Paul’s Cathedral on fire, London, 29 December 1940
Firestorm after Operation Gomorrah in Hamburg, July 1943
Dresden before and after bombing of 13-15 February 1945
City % DestroyedBochum 83Mainz 80Hamburg* 75Kassel 69Hagen 67Mannheim 64Düsseldorf* 64Dessau 61Cologne* 61Hannover 60Bremen 60Dresden* 59Dortmund* 54Stettin 53Frankfurt* 52Nuremberg 51Kiel 50Essen* 50Duisburg 48Stuttgart 46Munich* 42Magdeburg 41Chemnitz 41Berlin* 33Leipzig* 20
Conventional Bombing Damage to German cities (*= population over 500,000)
The residential area of Tokyo after the 9-10 March Bombing
B-29 firebomb assault on Tokyo, 26 May, 1945
The Atomic Bomb on Nagasaki, 9 August 1945
City Date Low estimates
High estimates
Attacking force Notes
Dresden13/02/1945 to 15/02/1945
25,000 35,000
British Royal Air Force (RAF) and United States Army Air Force (USAAF)
Fire storm
Hamburg July 1943 50,000 50,000
British Royal Air Force (RAF) and United States Army Air Force (USAAF)
Fire storm
Hiroshima 06/08/1945 90,000 140,000United States Army Air Force (USAAF)
First atomic bomb used in war
Nagasaki 09/08/1945 73,884 80,000United States Army Air Force (USAAF)
Plutonium bomb