Preview

Bombing of Dresden

Satisfactory Essays
Open Document
Open Document
383 Words
Grammar
Grammar
Plagiarism
Plagiarism
Writing
Writing
Score
Score
Bombing of Dresden
The Bombing of Dresden

The bombing of Dresden was a major military action by the alliance of the British Royal Air Force and the United States Army Air Force. Taking place in World War II, their target was to take out a popular area that was used as a major rail communication and transportation centre. The territory was known to contain housing for one hundred and ten factories and fifty thousand workers. This accumulation of people contributed to and supported the Nazi group. Both British and American Air forces were scheming to wipe out the enemy region. Through the 13th and 15th of February, 1945 Dresden was attacked. Lieutenant colonel Charles Portal of the British Royal Air Force declared that all the towns and near by cities of the social area were to be bombed, including Dresden. In precisely four raids, more than 3,900 tons of highly explosive bombs and incendiary devices were released on the city. These explosives were dropped by 1,300 heavy bombers. There was much discussion and debate given to the amount of deaths the attack caused. In March of 1945, the Nazi regime demanded its press to publish a Death toll of over 200,000 people due to the Dresden raids. But other death estimations were exaggerated as high as 500,000. These numbers led the city council into a private investigation to find out a legit estaminet of Deaths. In 2010 there was a reported death toll at a maximum of 25,000 victims killed due to the bombing. However, Dresden was not the only city destroyed by the attack. The allies bombed the city of Pforzheim in the same year, killing a large amount of 18,000 civilians. A few years back in 1943, they bombed the large city of Hamburg, causing one of the most magnificent firestorms. This massacre killed a rough 50,000 civilians. These suggest that the raid on Dresden was not the most severe attack, but still significantly horrible. The bombing of Dresden is continued to be recognized and referenced as a multiple example of the

You May Also Find These Documents Helpful

  • Good Essays

    Dresden, Germany, 1945. “The British Royal Air Force (RAF) and the U.S. Air Force initiated a strategic bombing campaign in Dresden, Germany” (“Dresden Bombing” par.1). The attacks from Great Britain and the United States were prompted by earlier bomb raids conducted by Germany on British soil. With orders coming in from Arthur Harris, leader of bomb command for RAF, the bombing in Dresden began February thirteenth of the year 1945. The initial bomb raid from RAF was then later followed by 771 tons of bombs being dropped by United States aircrafts (“Dresden Bombing” par. 2-3). To this day there is still controversy around this major event. Whether it should considered a war crime against innocent civilians…

    • 779 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    America would bomb Germany throughout the day and Britain would bomb Germany throughout the night. Air planes dropping bombs was not the only change that made this war so much more destructive. This war lead to the war weapon advancements such as tanks, which were used to storm and take over cities which torn cities and towns apart. This war also included a lot more ships than ever before, in fact warships were in the thousands. Along with Air planes, ships and tanks, you need something to destroy them so now they had made huge cannons to shoot these war machines and blow them up. The numbers of these new war weapons could possible explain why the was so destructive with Almost a half million air planes, eight thousand war ships, two-hundred thousand tanks and half a million artillery cannons, it was almost destined to be destructive. Then when you would think the war could not get any more destructive the Manhattan project was put together an Atomic bomb that would be dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. These bombs would deal so much damage it would completely end the war with…

    • 455 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    In the beginning of the war, Adolf Hitler had the idea to use bomber jets to bully Britain into surrendering to his demands. It was hit hope that an air assault on the public would cause the civilian population to cry out to their government for help, effectively backing them into a corner. Later the Japanese used an air raid to take out US naval carriers and cut the US off at the knees at Pearl Harbor. While both strategies were used as intimidation tactics, the result was a massive upsurge in public moral that spurned aircraft technology exponentially to new heights. Instead of intimidation, people were strengthened and the idea of “bombing as a way of conducting war,” was planted in their heads. This achieved innovations in the way planes were outfitted and designed, as the Allies put their capabilities into the…

    • 471 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    12 O'Clock High - Summary

    • 703 Words
    • 3 Pages

    In the film it exemplifies “vicious modernism” throughout it, but to start in the first scene where it appears the aircrafts had flew in from war and there were injured men, one on board and one they lost in war. Because of Germany representing that they are a powerful group of people they have means to want to destroy the U.S Army Air Forces. In the film also expressed “totalitarian dictatorship” on Germany’s end, they had one political centralized ruler, meaning they were tightly held under control of one political party. The 918 Bomb Group was also under “totalitarian dictatorship”; they’re leadership was under Colonial Davenport at one point and then when he was sat down, Genera Frank Savage became they’re leader.…

    • 703 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Better Essays

    Bibliography: Dixon, Norm. "Hiroshima and Nagasaki: Worst Single Terror Attacks in History | Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal." Hiroshima and Nagasaki: Worst Single Terror Attacks in History | Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal. N.p., n.d. Web. 28 Feb. 2013.…

    • 1517 Words
    • 7 Pages
    Better Essays
  • Good Essays

    1/3 of the city was devastated and 66,000 individuals were revealed executed or harmed. A dedication now denotes the spot where the bomb exploded scientists from everywhere throughout the…

    • 634 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    In the summer and autumn of 1940, German and British air forces fought in the skies over the Great Britain. In June 1940, a German General ordered by Hitler, began bombing air force bases and other targets in southern England. At the end of the battle the British had shot down around 1700 German planes. The British had won. Hitler saw that he could not defeat England's air force so he gave up his idea of invading Britain. Instead he decided to bomb British cities and towns, testing the…

    • 926 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Better Essays

    The second target, Nagasaki also had a immense effect. The death toll in Nagasaki by the end of 1945 was at 60,000 to 80,000 people. There was mass destruction all over the city of Hiroshima. Before the bomb striked Hiroshima there were 90,000 buildings standing tall all around the city and out those 90,000 only 28,000 remained. The doctors and nurses were limited; the city had 200 doctors and only 20 were alive and out 1,780 nurses only 150 were alive and capable to work.…

    • 1480 Words
    • 6 Pages
    Better Essays
  • Good Essays

    The Luftwaffe first targeted shipping convoys and shipping centers, but later focused on destroying RAF infrastructure, including radar sites and airfields (Axelrod). In the later stages of the campaign, they targeted aircraft factories, towns and cities. British fortunes were also helped by the fact that the Luftwaffe had never subscribed to a concept of strategic bombing. “British anti-aircraft and civil-defense preparations were inadequate in the summer of 1940”, yet the Luftwaffe was unable to wreak the devastating effects feared by many (Axelrod). German tactics were changed again and the Luftwaffe resorted to indiscriminate bombing of larger cities, including London, Plymouth and Coventry. British fighters were also inexperienced compared…

    • 955 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Satisfactory Essays

    More than 40 000 civilians were killed and one million London houses were either destroyed or damaged. Initial German bombing raids focused on mainly military and industrial targets. However, Hitler believed that by targeting civilians he could force the British to surrender. It was an attempt to shatter British morale and force Churchill into negotiating. However, the bombing had the opposite effect, bringing the English people together to face a common enemy. Encouraged by Churchill, the people became determined to hold out against the Nazi…

    • 256 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Satisfactory Essays
  • Good Essays

    There were ninety thousand buildings in Hiroshima before the bomb was dropped only twenty eight thousand remained after the explosion. The devastation was immense and widespread. The bodies from the bombing of Hiroshima were laying out covering the road, charcoal black, and flesh hanging off burnt to no recognition. The witnesses of the bombing remembers the masses of people crawling and dragging their bodies trying to get to the water to stop the pain. They did not know that this bombing was only a…

    • 524 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    Atomic Bomb Dbq

    • 485 Words
    • 2 Pages

    The explosion wiped out 90 percent of the city and immediately killed 80,000 people; tens of thousands more would later die of radiation exposure. After this first explosion just 3 days after, a second bomb went off in Nagasaki which ended up killing about 40,00 people. On August 15, Japan’s Emperor Hirohito announced his country’s surrender in World War II. This marked the end of World War II.…

    • 485 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    Slaughterhouse 5

    • 494 Words
    • 2 Pages

    I killed two people with this gun. One American boy, age 14 in 8th grade living a good life in the state of Mississippi. One African American, age 13, also living in Mississippi. The American was a big sports fan, loving to wrestle and run track. The African American liked sports as well, lacrosse and basketball. At this point pretty much anyone that lives in Jackson, Mississippi knows these facts. If you don’t, I guess social media isn’t your thing. While the names and backgrounds of these two children are well known, who knows the names of at least 50 people out of the thousands that perished in the raid of Dresden? While I see it wrong to compare deaths and say which was a greater death, I can say that the Dresden bombing had a greater global impact than this murder event. So why is it that people can spit out facts about the “less significant” two murdered people but can’t even say the names of some of the people that lost their lives in the greatest bombing event in WWII?…

    • 494 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    6 august, 1945 America had attacked Hiroshima, Japan with nuclear bomb named little boy. Nuclear bomb has taken around 10000 lives in the provenience of explosion. Three days later again an attack had occurred with the same type of the bomb named fat man in Nagasaki. The intensity of the bomb was 12500 TNT and it had caused around 4000 degree Celsius. It was enough to vaporize the flesh and bones of humans. It was a nightmare for the people of Japan.…

    • 788 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Satisfactory Essays

    Within the first two to four months of the bombings, the acute effects killed 90,000 – 166,000 people in Hiroshima and 60,000 – 80,000 in Nagasaki, with roughly half of the deaths in each city occurring on the first day.…

    • 267 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Satisfactory Essays