The Taihoku Airstrike (Chinese: 松山空襲) was an air raid by the military of the Republic of China against the metropolitan perimeter of Taihoku (modern-day Taipei), the capital of Japanese Taiwan, on 8 February 1938. The raid was the first attack on Imperial Japanese territory during the course of World War II, and one of the few offensive operations conducted by China directly against Japan during the course of the war.
The TaihokuAirstrike (Chinese: 松山空襲) was an air raid by the military of the Republic of China against the metropolitan perimeter of Taihoku (modern-day...
The Taihoku Air Raid was the largest Allied air raid on the city of Taihoku (modern-day Taipei), then under Japanese colonial rule, during World War II...
the Dutch government-in-exile in London had given permission for the airstrike on Nijmegen, and that it therefore was an intentional bombardment. They...
160 km) south of Dutch Harbor to launch a second attack. At 16:00, a second airstrike of nine fighters, 11 dive bombers, and six level bombers attacked less...
Mediterranean and Middle East theatre of World War II Haifa Refinery destroyed by airstrikes Belligerents Italy United Kingdom Palestine Yishuv Casualties and losses...
Soviet forces hiding in the rubble were subjected to nonstop German airstrikes until the Soviet counteroffensive in late November 1942. Luftflotte 4...
telegram to the 2nd Luftflotte (responsible for the air raid) stating: Airstrike postponed due to ongoing negotiations. Return to stand-by status. The...
civilians were killed by airstrikes from the Allied Forces between May 1940 and May 1945. Most of the losses by Allied airstrikes in the Netherlands were...
works in Essen. During World War II, it was designed to divert Allied airstrikes from the actual production site of the arms factory. In the period 1939...
Feuerwehr fire brigades were ill-equipped to fight the fires. The RAF's airstrikes destroyed areas of Wuppertal's north-eastern Barmen, central Elberfeld...
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