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Dortmund bombed.
http://www.bomber-command.info
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| 14/15 April |
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208 BC |
Target:
Dortmund, town area |
http://www.historisches-centrum.de/ruhr/chronic1.htm
208 aircraft - 142 Wellingtons, 34 Hampdens, 20 Stirlings, 8 Halifaxes, 4 Manchesters - a force which was several times greater than any previously sent to this city. 5 Wellingtons and 4 Hampdens lost.
132 aircraft claimed to have bombed Dortmund but bombing photographs showed that bombs fell across a 40-mile stretch of the Ruhr. Dortmund reports 1 unspecified industrial building destroyed, 1 military establishment severely damaged, 4 dwelling-houses destroyed and 31 damaged with 4 people killed and 27 injured.
M. Middlebrook & C. Everitt, The Bomber Command War Diaries, p.257
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| 15/16 April |
| Aircraft:
152 BC |
Target:
Dortmund, town area |
http://www.historisches-centrum.de/ruhr/chronic1.htm
152 aircraft - 111 Wellingtons, 19 Hampdens, 15 Stirlings, 7 Manchesters. 3 Wellingtons and 1 Stirling lost.
Thick cloud and icing were encountered. Only 88 aircraft claimed to have bombed Dortmund which reports 1 house destroyed and 13 seriously damaged, 2 people killed and 6 injured. Bombs falling in Dortmund were equivalent to eight aircraft loads.
http://www.raf.mod.uk/bombercommand/diary/apr42.html
Jews taken by the Gestapo from the Steinwache
to a northern quarter of Dortmund and deported.
[Translated from]
Gerhard Sollbach (ed), Bombenkrieg und Nachkriegsalltag: 1939-1948, p.143
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