Table of Data Points

Tag : Britain

1945-05-011945-08-01Borneo

Australian I Corps troops under, under General Morshead, attacked Japanese troops holding the island. The campaign isolated a large number of Japanese troops, captured major oil supplies and freed many Allied prisoners.

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1945-04-291945-05-07Operation Mana

Royal and U.S. Air Force planes drop over 11,000 tons of food to un-liberated areas of the Netherlands to relieve starvation of civilians suffering from the Dutch Famine.

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1945-04-18Heligoland Bombing

617 Avro Lancasters, 332 Handley Page Halifaxes, 20 de Havilland Mosquitoes bombed the Naval base, airfield, and town.

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1945-04-091945-04-10Scheer Sunk

During a RAF air raid on the Kiel dockyards involving over 300 aircraft, the pocket Battleship Admiral Scheer was struck by bombs and capsized at her berth.

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1945-03-21British liberate Mandalay

British troops take Mandalay, Burma.

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1945-03-21Operation Carthage

During an attack on Gestapo headquarters in Copenhagen, a Mosquito bomber accidentally crashes into a school. Following bombers then attack the school believing it to be the original target. 125 civilians are killed.

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1945-03-14Grand Slam Bomb Dropped

The RAF drop the 22,000 lb Grand Slam bomb for the first time. An Avro Lancaster of Squadron Leader CC Calder dropped the bomb from 11,965 ft (3,647 m) on the Bielefeld viaduct.

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1945-02-23Pforzheim destoryed

Pforzheim is completely destroyed by a raid of 379 British bombers.

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1945-02-23Verona Bombed

The Verona Philharmonic Theatre is bombed by Allied forces.

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1945-02-131945-02-15Bombing of Dresden

Between 24,000 and 40,000 people are killed when Allied bombers drop more than 3,900 tons of high explosive and incendiary bombs on Dresden, the Baroque capital of Saxony, Germany.

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