Aerial attacks by the Allies on German-occupied Prague during WWII
Bombing damage to Emmaus Monastery
Prague, the capital and largest city of the German-occupied Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, was bombed several times by the Allies during World War II. The first Allied aircraft to fly over Prague was a single bomber of the French Air Force in April 1940, but it dropped propaganda leaflets, not bombs. The first bombing mission was flown by the Royal Air Force (RAF) in October 1941. Prague was then bombed three times by the United States Army Air Forces between the fall of 1944 and spring of 1945. During the Prague uprising of 5–9 May 1945, the Luftwaffe made use of bombers against the rebels.[1]
The bombing of Prague cost 1,200 lives. Ten surviving high-quality reconnaissance photographs allow a detailed assessment of the damage caused by the raids.[2] The first two USAAF raids were accidental. The raids were used for anti-American propaganda purposes, both by the Nazis and the subsequent Communist regime in Czechoslovakia.
^Michal Plavec, "History that's still alive – Propaganda about Soviet air raids in May 1945", Behind the Iron Curtain, 4 (2016): 20–31.
^Air raids on Prague in 1944–1945, Prague Institute of Planning and Development.
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