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Battle of Hamburg may refer to:

  • Battle of Hamburg (air) (24 July – 30 July 1943), an Allied strategic bombing campaign (codenamed "Operation Gomorrah") in which over 40,000 German civilians were killed
  • Capture of Hamburg (18 April – 3 May 1945), one of the last European battles of the Second World War. Fought between the British VIII Corps and the German 1st Parachute Army.
  • The Battle of Hamburg (book), a book by Martin Middlebrook about the air battle

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Battle of Hamburg

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Battle of Hamburg may refer to: Battle of Hamburg (air) (24 July – 30 July 1943), an Allied strategic bombing campaign (codenamed "Operation Gomorrah")...

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Bombing of Hamburg in World War II

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bombing of Hamburg during World War II included numerous attacks on civilians and civic infrastructure. As a large city and industrial centre, Hamburg's shipyards...

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Capture of Hamburg

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The Capture of Hamburg was one of the last battles of the Second World War, where the remaining troops of the German 1st Parachute Army fought the British...

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Hamburg

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Hamburg (German: [ˈhambʊʁk] , locally also [ˈhambʊɪ̯ç] ; Low Saxon: Hamborg [ˈhambɔːç] ), officially the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg, is the second-largest...

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List of military engagements of World War II

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End of World War II in Europe

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Minister of Defence for Mussolini's Italian Social Republic. Hitler dies by suicide: On 30 April 1945, as the Battle of Nuremberg and the Battle of Hamburg ended...

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Hamburg massacre

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The Hamburg Massacre (or Red Shirt Massacre or Hamburg riot) was a riot in the United States town of Hamburg, South Carolina, in July 1876, leading up...

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Siege of Hamburg

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major engagement in Northern Germany, the Battle of the Göhrde. The defeated French troops retreated back to Hamburg. Despite steadily shrinking manpower,...

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Battle of the Ruhr

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defences and before the end of the battle, Operation Gomorrah on 24 July 1943, began the Battle of Hamburg. After the turn to Hamburg, Bomber Command continued...

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History of Hamburg

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Hamburg was founded in the 9th century as a mission settlement to convert the Saxons. Since the Middle Ages, it has been an important trading center in...

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Hamburger SV

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(pronounced [ˈhambʊʁɡɐ ʔɛsˈfaʊ] ) or Hamburg (pronounced [ˈhambʊʁk] ), is a German sports club based in Hamburg, with its largest branch being its football...

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Arthur Harris

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following the tremendous success of the Battle of Hamburg (codenamed Operation Gomorrah), when he assured the Chief of the Air Staff, Sir Charles Portal, that...

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Hamburg Uprising

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The Hamburg Uprising (German: Hamburger Aufstand) was a communist insurrection that occurred in Hamburg in Weimar Germany on 23 October 1923. A militant...

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Invasion of Germany

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RAF Bomber Command

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Battle of Hamburg in mid-1943 was one of the most successful Bomber Command operations, although Harris' extension of the offensive into the Battle of...

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Defence of the Reich

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cities. Bomber Command's success during the Battle of the Ruhr and the Battle of Hamburg, and the failures of the USAAF to make an impact in 1943 also seemed...

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Battle of Castle Itter

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Battle of Castle Itter was fought on 5 May 1945, in the Austrian village of Itter in the North Tyrol region of the country, during the last days of the...

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Bernard Montgomery

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Heath, south of Hamburg, after the surrender of Berlin to the USSR on 2 May. After the war he became Commander-in-Chief of the British Army of the Rhine (BAOR)...

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Martin Middlebrook

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much co-operation from Neville Mackinder. (1978) ISBN 071391081X The Battle of Hamburg (1980) The Peenemünde Raid (1982) The Schweinfurt-Regensburg Mission...

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Battle of Britain

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The Battle of Britain (German: Luftschlacht um England, "air battle for England") was a military campaign of the Second World War, in which the Royal Air...

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Civilian casualties of strategic bombing

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2009-03-26. Brauer, Jurgen. Castles, Battles, and Bombs: How Economics Explains Military History. p 199. University of Chicago Press; Reprint edition (2008)...

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Creepback

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Hastings, Max, with Michael Joseph Bomber Command (1979). Middlebrook, Martin The Battle of Hamburg, Allen Lane (1980). Middlebrook, p99 Middlebrook, p100...

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SMS Hamburg

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SMS Hamburg ("His Majesty's Ship Hamburg") was the second member of the seven-vessel Bremen class of light cruisers, built for the German Kaiserliche Marine...

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Devonshire Regiment

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its destination of the city of Hamburg, Germany, as part of the Western Allied invasion of Germany, taking part in the Battle of Hamburg in late April 1945...

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