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The city of Cologne was bombed by the Royal Air Force (RAF) in 262 separate air raids during World War II, this in response to the bombing of London at the start of the war. Cologne was an important military target, being a heavily industrialized city with many factories producing war supplies and the city also had a large railway network, used ...
8 paź 2015 · BBC News. The scale of devastation wreaked on Germany by RAF Bomber Command in World War Two has been revealed in detail in rare maps, published for the first time. The bomb damage diagrams are...
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29 paź 2015 · In May 1945, in the last major Soviet operation of World War II in Europe, forces of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and its allies attacked Germany’s Army Group Centre and Army Group Ostmark in Czechoslovakia and Austria.
On March 7, 1945, Cologne fell to the Allies; however, that city’s link to the eastern bank of the Rhine, the 1,200-foot segment of the Hohenzollern Bridge, had been destroyed the previous day, making a Rhine crossing at Cologne impossible for Hodges’s First Army.
In Munich, Warsaw, London and in numerous other cities throughout Europe, damage surveys and maps simultaneously recorded World War II destruction, ongoing demolition and future clearance, blurring the boundaries between surveying, mapping and planning.
18 gru 2020 · As the American point elements penetrated deeper into the heart of Cologne, the last German military units cleared the Rhine and sought the temporary safety of the east bank, leaving a ragged rearguard behind.
