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The Market Bombing of Alicante 25 May 1938
Part of the Spanish Civil War
The current central market of Alicante
Date
25 May 1938
Location
Alicante, Spain
Result
Alicante severely damaged.
Belligerents
Spanish Republic
Nationalist Spain Aviazione Legionaria
Commanders and leaders
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Strength
Anti-aircraft artillery
7–9 Italian Sa-79 and Sa-81 bombers
Casualties and losses
275–393 civilians dead 1,000 civilians injured
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Spanish Civil War
Background
List of battles
July 1936 uprising
Melilla
Seville
1st Barcelona
Cuartel de la Montaña
Gijón
Oviedo
Cuartel de Loyola
1936
German intervention
Guadarrama
Andalusia
Alcázar
Extremadura
Convoy de la Victoria
Almendralejo
Sigüenza
1st Mérida
Badajoz
Majorca
Sierra Guadalupe
Córdoba
Gipuzkoa
Irún
Monte Pelado
Talavera
Santuario de Nuestra Señora de la Cabeza
Guinea
Cerro Muriano
Cape Spartel
Seseña
Madrid
Ciudad Universitaria
1st Corunna Road
Villarreal
Ursula
Aceituna
Lopera
2nd Corunna Road
1937
3rd Corunna Road
Málaga
Jarama
Cape Machichaco
Guadalajara
Pozoblanco
War in the North
Cantabrian Sea
Biscay
Durango
Guernica
Bilbao
Santander
Asturias
El Mazuco
Jaén
2nd Barcelona
Deutschland
Almería
Segovia
Huesca
Albarracín
Brunete
Zaragoza
1st Belchite
Cape Cherchell
Sabiñánigo
1st Lérida
Teruel
1938
Valladolid
Alfambra
Cape Palos
Aragon
2nd Belchite
3rd Barcelona
Caspe
2nd Lérida
1st Gandesa
Segre
Levante
Balaguer
Los Blázquez
Alicante
Granollers
Bielsa
2nd Mérida
Ebro
2nd Gandesa
Cantabria
Cabra
Sant Vicenç de Calders
1939
Catalonia
Valsequillo
Xàtiva
La Garriga
Minorca
Cartagena
Final offensive
One of the worst bombing attacks on civilian population in Alicante during the Spanish civil war. This particular attack was one of many against the Spanish city of Alicante and it occurred on 25 May 1938, perpetrated by the Legionary Air Force, an expeditionary corps from the Italian Royal Air Force, allied with Franco. The attacking planes were based in Mallorca. It is even considered by many to be one of the deadliest aerial bombings of the entire Spanish Civil War with many bombs dropped on a strictly civilian population with no military targets within a short amount of time. It was heavily reported by witnesses that the planes dove low shooting at civilians randomly.
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