The aerial bombings of Hanover are a series of eighty-eight air raids by Royal Air Force Bomber Command and the United States Army Air Forces on the German city of Hanover during World War II. Collect
Hanover city centre in 1945, photographed from northwest by Margaret Bourke-White travelling through Germany with the USAAF and General Patton. The Market Church at the centre of the historic old town of, at the time, half-timbered buildings is just off the centre of the photograph.
The Deurag-Nerag refineries at the end of the war
In 1952 Aegidien Church became a war memorial dedicated to victims of war and of violence.
Interior of the Old Town Hall in 1943
Old Town Hall (Hanover)
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The Old Town Hall is a former, and the first, town hall in Hanover, Germany. Originally built in the old city district in 1410, replaced by the New Town Hall in 1913, and extensively restored in 1953
Bombing of Hanover in World War II
…refineries. Although these raids damaged the factories' productivity, they were repeatedly able to resume production. 26 July 1943 Interior of the Old Town Hall in 1943 On 26 July 1943, as part of a daylight raid on Hamburg the USAAF detached bombardment groups to attack the Conti rubber plant in Hanover. German…
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Old Town Hall seen on right of Köbelingerstraße obscuring Market Church in back-right, drawn before 1827
Old Town Hall c. 1890–1905 with Grupenstraße (now Karmarschstraße) built after Pharmacist wing (Apothekerflügel) was demolished in 1844