Carpet bombing
Videos
Carpet bombing, also known as "saturation bombing" and "obliteration bombing", is a large area bombardment done in a progressive manner to inflict damage in every part of a selected area of land. Carp
The first carpet bombing from air in history was the Bombing of Barcelona. 1,300 people were killed in 3 days, 16–18 March 1938
On 14 May 1940 at 1:22 pm, in the Rotterdam Blitz, German bombers set the entire inner city on fire with incendiary bombs, killing 814 inhabitants
Wesel was 97% destroyed before it was finally taken by Allied troops in 1945
Photo of bombing of Waegwan, 1950
Strategic bombing
Videos
Strategic bombing is a systematically organized and executed military attack from the air which can utilize strategic bombers, long- or medium-range missiles, or nuclear-armed fighter-bomber aircraft
Tokyo after the massive firebombing attack on the night of March 9–10, 1945, the single most destructive raid in military aviation history. The Tokyo firebombing cut the city's industrial productivity by half and killed around 100,000 civilians.
A 1918 Air Raid rehearsal, evacuating children from a hospital
German airship bombing Calais on the night of 21–22 February 1915
Ruins of Guernica (1937)