Bombing of Frankfurt am Main in World War II explained
Bombing of Frankfurt am Main by the Allies of World War II killed about 5,500 residents and destroyed the largest half-timbered historical city centre in Germany (the Eighth Air Force dropped 12,197 tons of explosives on the city).
In the 1939–45 period the Royal Air Force (RAF) dropped 15,696 long tons of bombs on Frankfurt.[1]
Post-war reconstruction generally used modern architecture, and a few landmark buildings were rebuilt in a simple historical style. The 1st building rebuilt was the 1789 Paulskirche (St. Paul's Church).
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Notes and References
- Web site: Is the Bomber Obsolescent? . Flight Global. 9 August 1945. 4 May 2019.
- Web site: https://web.archive.org/web/20050510083826/http://www.raf.mod.uk/bombercommand/oct43.html . Royal Air Force Bomber Command, Campaign Diary October 1943 . 10 May 2005 . 6 April 2005 . 18 December 2013 . Official RAF Website.
- http://www.stelzriede.com/ms/html/mshwm24.htm Mission 24: Frankfurt, Germany, January 29, 1944
- Web site: Miller . Edgar "Ed" C . ...My Combat Missions... . Sirinet.net/~lgarris . 27 July 2011 . 3 March 2016 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160303192907/http://www.sirinet.net/~lgarris/emiller/military.html . dead .
- Web site: 303rd BG Combat Missions and Reports .
- Web site: Devil's Ball: B-17G-10-BO 42-31238: 351st Bomb Group, 511th Bomb Squadron. USAAF. 4 May 2019.
- Book: Goitein, S.D. . S.D. Goitein . 2000 . Economic Foundations . I . A Mediterranean Society: The Jewish Communities of the Arab World as Portrayed in the Documents of the Cairo Geniza . University of California Press . 5.
