One hundred seventy-seven B-24 Liberators took off from Libya on August 1, 1943, bound for the Romanian oil refineries at Ploesti. The low-altitude bombing raid aimed to cripple German fuel production ...
On Dec. 7, 1941, the Empire of Japan launched an air raid on the U.S. Navy base at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii, killing more than 2,300 Americans. The United States declared war against Japan the following ...
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The night Tokyo burned: How America unleashed the deadliest air raid in history
On March 9–10, 1945, nearly 300 B-29 bombers dropped incendiary bombs over Tokyo, igniting a firestorm that consumed more ...
ROCHESTER, N.Y. — A piece of history was moved Thursday in downtown Rochester. A Cold War-era air raid siren was taken off the roof of the building across the street from the Andrews Street fire ...
In an effort to see how quickly El Paso could be evacuated in the event of an enemy air raid, On June 14, 1955, El Pasoans fled the city in a mass evacuation under a "simulated enemy attack." The ...
Perhaps one of the most iconic and memorable but simultaneously terrifying memories of 1950s America was the fear of nuclear disaster. Referred to as mutually assured destruction, the looming prospect ...
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