The Allies saw the Dresden operation as the justified bombing of a strategic target during ongoing hostilities, which United States Air Force reports, declassified decades later, noted as a major rail transport and communication centre, housing 110 factories and 50,000 workers in support of the continued Nazi German war effort. It would be another three months before Nazi German military units began to sign off on a German Instrument of Surrender, and another month thereafter before the Nazi government was officially removed. Allied intelligence assessments at the time were not aware of Nazi Germany's challenges in its effort to maintain resistance in the closing months of the war, rumours of the establishment of a Nazi redoubt in Southern Germany were taken seriously, and there was uncertainty amongst the Allies over the ability of an ongoing Russian advance from the east – which was suffering heavy Red Army casualties – to maintain momentum. Post-war discussions about whether the attacks were justified – with the death toll inflated to 200,000 by propaganda in Nazi Germany and repeated for decades after – led to the event becoming one of the moral causes célèbres of the war. Three more USAAF air raids followed, two occurring on 2 March aimed at the city's railway marshalling yard and one smaller raid on 17 April aimed at industrial areas. The bombing and the resulting firestorm destroyed more than 1,600 acres (6.5 km 2) of the city centre. In four raids between 13 and 15 February 1945, 772 heavy bombers of the Royal Air Force (RAF) and 527 of the United States Army Air Forces (USAAF) dropped more than 3,900 tons of high-explosive bombs and incendiary devices on the city. The bombing of Dresden was a joint British and American aerial bombing attack on the city of Dresden, the capital of the German state of Saxony, during World War II. Part of strategic bombing during World War IIħ aircraft (1 B-17 and 6 Lancasters, with crews)ĭresden viewed from the Rathaus (city hall) in 1945, showing destruction. For more guidance, see Wikipedia:Translation.You should also add the template to the talk page.A model attribution edit summary is Content in this edit is translated from the existing German Wikipedia article at ] see its history for attribution. You must provide copyright attribution in the edit summary accompanying your translation by providing an interlanguage link to the source of your translation.If possible, verify the text with references provided in the foreign-language article.

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Of the three friends, only Dad lived to have a career, marry, and raise a family. Dad's friends were assigned to B-17s and sadly both were killed in training. Although he crash-landed once he survived the war to become a respected family doctor and surgeon. The day after Pearl Harbor was bombed my father, and his two best friends volunteered for pilot training. My father, who was a B-24 pilot said that flak was actually beautiful, but you didn't want to get hit by it. In this drawing, the explosions you see are the anti-aircraft explosions of what was called flak. But the B-24 was less survivable when damaged. The B-17 had less range and a lower payload of bombs than the B-24 Liberator. They had a range of 2,000 miles or 3.219 kilometers. The B-17's maximum speed was 318 mph or 511 kph. When loaded they weighed over 40,000 lbs or over 18,000 kg. They had a wingspan of 103 feet 9 inches or 31.6 meters. Some were so damaged that after they landed at their airbase in England the aircraft had to be junked.ī-17 Flying Fortress could fly at an altitude of 30,000 feet. B-17 bombers were known to come back from missions with heavy damage. It was the USA's first long-range heavy bomber. It was used by America and her allies during World War II.

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