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Bombing of Hamburg

Name: Bombing of Hamburg – Great Britain factsheet records
Creator: World History Database

Great Britain · Warfare / World War, 2nd. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

2Records

1940–1943Date range

1Named people

1Places

Chronological records

1940

Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill16 November 1940

Hamburg · Warfare / World War, 2nd

The Royal Air Force bomb Hamburg

1943

Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill19 December 1943

Hamburg · Warfare / World War, 2nd

The British Air Ministry announces that Hamburg lies in ruins

Names involved

Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill

Provenance

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