Royal Air Force No. 617 Squadron attacked German dams in Operation Chastise, otherwise known as the Dambuster Raids.
21st June 1919: The German High Seas naval fleet is scuttled at Scapa Flow
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Historians now generally accept that up to 300 civilians were killed directly in the bombing of Guernica, although it’s likely that many more – perhaps as many as 1,700 – died from their injuries.
The four people killed in the air raids were all civilians, which served as a stark message about the changing nature of warfare in the 20th Century.
On the 13th June 1944 the first German attack on Britain using the V-1 flying bomb, otherwise known as the ‘doodlebug’, took place.
While flying over France, the formations experienced high winds that blew them dramatically off course.
On the 2nd March 1965 the United States military, alongside the Republic of Vietnam Air Force, began Operation Rolling Thunder as part of the Vietnam War.
21 people were killed and 182 were injured in the Birmingham pub bombings.
38 people died and hundreds more were wounded in the Wall Street bombing in New York.
On the 6th August 1945, the USA dropped an atomic bomb nicknamed “Little Boy” on the Japanese city of Hiroshima from the B-29 aircraft Enola Gay.
On the 1st November 1911, the first aerial bombing using an aeroplane took place when Italian Lieutenant Giulio Gavotti dropped four grenades on Turkish troops in Libya.
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