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| Würzburg WWII bombings | |||||
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| 1944-06-21 |  8 bombers hit town centre (42
dead) |
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| 1945-02-4 | 2-3 Mosquito targeted the town centre (10
dead)
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| 1945-02-5 | 4-6 Mosquito targeted the town centre (6
dead)
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| 1945-02-12 | 4 Mosquito targeted the town centre
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| 1945-02-19 | 6 aircraft hit town centre (112 dead)
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| 1945-02-23 |  Mission 843: 37 B-17s destroyed
Würzburg main station (171 dead).
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| 1945-03-03 | 31-42 Mosquito targeted the town centre (86
dead) |
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| 1945-03-16 circa 21.30 hours (CET) | 225 Lancaster and 11 Mosquito Pathfinder targeted the town centre and
released 1,127 tons of bombs (including around 370,000 incendiaries) in 17 minutes. "Some ...
like Würzburg or Pforzheim were
primarily selected because they were easy for the bombers to find
and destroy. Because they had a medieval centre, they were
expected to be particularly vulnerable to fire attack" (author
Detlef Siebert). The raid destroyed the episcopal palace, the
historic fortress and the major churches; the baroque city center was irrecoverably damaged, and
the Würzburg
Residence was badly damaged (ca. 3000 dead, 2000
missed). |
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| 1945-03-18 | fighter destroy military
installations |
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| 1945-03-22 | mission 906: 8 B-24s hit Würzburg as
secondary target
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| 1945-03-31 | 9th USAAF (tactical airforce): A-20s,
A-26s and B-26s hit storage depots and
small marshalling yards at Würzburg.
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| 1945-04-06 | surrender of the city |
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