Bomber Command's poor performance in bombing accuracy during 1941 had led to calls for the force to be split up and diverted to other urgent theatres e.g. The raids were useful propaganda for the Allies and particularly for RAF Bomber Command head Arthur Harris's concept of a Strategic Bombing Offensive.It was expected that the devastation from such raids might be enough to knock Germany out of the war or at least severely damage German morale.Codenamed Operation Millennium, the massive raid was launched for two primary reasons: The first ever 1,000 bomber raid by the RAF was conducted on Cologne on the night of 30/. It survived the war, despite being hit dozens of times by Allied bombs. The 30/ attack on Cologne was the first 1,000 bomber raid.įirst 1,000 bomber raid Innenstadt, Cologne in 1945 Official British war art imagining a bombing raid on Cologne. While air raid alarms had gone off in the winter/spring of 1940 as British bombers passed overhead, the first bombing took place on. 20,000 civilians died during the war in Cologne due to aerial bombardments. A total of 34,711 long tons of bombs were dropped on the city by the RAF. The German city of Cologne was bombed in 262 separate air raids by the Allies during World War II, all by the Royal Air Force (RAF). Aerial bombing of Cologne, Germany during World War II
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