The ground level view of the bomb destruction wasn't very pretty either.


The Germans bombed Poland.

Warsaw


The Germans bombed Russia.

Stalingrad


The Germans bombed Great Brittain.

Winston Churchill surveys the damage to the debating chambers in the Brittish House of Commons


The Allies bombed the Germans in:

Harburg

Limburg

Remagen

Hamburg


Although the targets were intended to be "strategic targets", inevitably civilians were caught in the "crossfire".

Munster

Hamburg

Soest

Dresden

Saint-Lo

The remains of the cathedral of NotreDame at Saint-Lo..
This location was at a strategic Normandy crossroads. Hit by Allied bombs and German mortar, the community was about 95% destroyed.

One soldier said: "We sure liberated the hell out of this place."

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