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Bombing of Eder

Name: Bombing of Eder – Great Britain factsheet records
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Great Britain · Warfare / World War, 2nd. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

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1943Date range

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1Places

Chronological records

1943

Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill16 May 1943

Eder · Warfare / World War, 2nd

The Dambusters breach the Eder dam by "bouncing bombs"

Names involved

Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill

Provenance

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