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| Tango01 | 23 Feb 2018 3:18 p.m. PST |
…Hitler's Capital "WITHIN A YEAR of the start of the Second World War, Berlin found itself in the crosshairs of Allied bombers. Beginning with the first British raid on the Nazi capital, launched on Aug. 25, 1940, through to the last attacks leading up to VE Day, RAF Bomber Command dropped an estimated 45,000 tons of ordnance on the city. American planes were responsible for an additional 23,000 tons in the war's last two years. In all, the western Allies launched more than 360 raids on the city. Interestingly, these were not the only air attacks on the political epicenter of the so-called Thousand Year Reich. Many forget that the Soviet Union's burgeoning strategic bomber force carried out missions against Berlin too. Although representing a fraction of the total tonnage to fall on the city (less than 1 percent in all), the Soviet's Berlin bombing campaign remains one of the more interesting yet forgotten chapters of World War Two. Here's the…."
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