Bombing of Nijmegen
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The bombing of Nijmegen on 22 February 1944 was a target-of-opportunity aerial bombing raid by the United States Army Air Forces on the city of Nijmegen in the Netherlands, then occupied by Nazi Germa
Police photo from 1945: in the foreground, parts of the centre mainly bombed in February '44; most buildings in the background were not destroyed until Operation Market Garden (September 1944).
A similar B-24 Liberator bombing a German railyard in March 1945
Monument 'De Schommel' at the Raadhuishof (2000) remembers the raid's civilian casualties.
Daalseweg cemetery, victim monument 22–02–44.
Big Week
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Operation Argument, after the war dubbed Big Week, was a sequence of raids by the United States Army Air Forces and RAF Bomber Command from 20 to 25 February 1944, as part of the Combined Bomber Offen
Bombing of Nijmegen
…historical research has shown that the attack was intentional, but executed poorly. A planned raid on the city of Gotha was part of the so-called 'Big Week' (official name: Operation Argument), a series of Allied bombardments on German aircraft factories to weaken the Luftwaffe in preparation for D-Day…
Damage to Nijmegen after the 22 February Bombing of Nijmegen