Bombing of Berlin in World War II

Bombing of Berlin in World War II
	Part of Strategic bombing during World War II
	; The ruins of the Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church in Berlin, heavily damaged in an Allied bombing and preserved as a monument against destruction and war
Date	7 June 1940 – 21 April 1945
Location	Berlin, Germany
Result	Heavy damage to the city; Soviet victory in the Battle of Berlin
Belligerents
United Kingdom; United States; Soviet Union; France	Germany
Units involved
Royal Air Force RAF Bomber Command; US Army Air Force 8th Air Force; 15th Air Force; Soviet Air Forces French Air Force	Luftwaffe 1st Flak Division;

Berlin, the capital of Nazi Germany, was subject to 363 air raids during the Second World War.^[1] It was bombed by the RAF Bomber Command between 1940 and 1945, the United States Army Air Forces' Eighth Air Force between 1943 and 1945, and the French Air Force in 1940 and between 1944 and 1945 as part of the Allied campaign of strategic bombing of Germany. It was also attacked by aircraft of the Red Air Force in 1941 and particularly in 1945, as Soviet forces closed on the city. British bombers dropped 45,517 tons of bombs,^[2] while American aircraft dropped 22,090.3 tons. As the bombings continued, more and more people fled the city. By May 1945, 1.7 million people (40% of the population) had fled.^[3]

^ Taylor, Chapter "Thunderclap and Yalta" Page 216
^ "Target Analysis". Flight. 9 August 1945. p. 154. Archived from the original on 10 January 2015.
^ Richard Overy, The Bombers and the Bombed: Allied Air War Over Europe 1940–1945 (2014), pp 301, 304

[1] Taylor, Chapter "Thunderclap and Yalta" Page 216

[2] "Target Analysis". Flight. 9 August 1945. p. 154. Archived from the original on 10 January 2015.

[3] Richard Overy, The Bombers and the Bombed: Allied Air War Over Europe 1940–1945 (2014), pp 301, 304

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