Operation Gomorrah

Description:

"Operation Gomorrah was RAF Bomber Command's attempt in 1943 to obliterate Hamburg, Germany's great northern port city. The bombers returned night after night, pulverising what was already rubble, whipping up a terrible firestorm and creating a holocaust so appalling that rescuers could only watch, helpless, from outside the city. An estimated 42,000 people died and 22 square kilometres of the city were incinerated."--Jacket.

subjects: History,  World War, 1939-1945,  Operation Gomorrah, 1943,  Zerstörung

Places: Germany,  Hamburg,  Hamburg (Germany)

Times: Bombardment, 1940-1945