Aarhus Air Raid

Aarhus Air Raid
Part of World War II
Damaged barracks near Aarhus University residence halls, bombed on 31 October 1944
Date 31 October 1944 Location Aarhus, Denmark Result British victory
Belligerents
United Kingdom Royal Air Force	Germany
Strength
24 bombers 1 reconnaissance air craft	Various anti-aircraft defences 1 light cruiser
Casualties and losses
1 aircraft destroyed 1 aircrew interned	Gestapo offices destroyed German barracks heavily damaged 39 German agents and officers killed 20 German soldiers killed
~10 Danish civilians killed 1+ Danish civilian wounded 1 Danish prisoner killed

The Aarhus Air Raid took place on 31 October 1944, when 25 Mosquitoes from 140 Wing Royal Air Force (RAF) of the 2nd Tactical Air Force, bombed the Gestapo headquarters at the University of Aarhus, Denmark. After the Second World War, the RAF called the mission the most successful of its kind during the war.^[1]