Operation Carthage
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Operation Carthage, on 21 March 1945, was a British air raid on Copenhagen, Denmark during the Second World War which caused significant collateral damage. The target of the raid was the Shellhus, use
The air raid on the Shellhus
Shell House before the bombing. At the time of the bombing it was painted in camouflage colours.
Institut Jeanne d'Arc, a Roman Catholic girl school in Frederiksberg Allé, Frederiksberg, Copenhagen. Established in 1924, bombed by accident by the RAF 21 March 1945 and demolished.
Shell House burning after the bombing raid
Aarhus air raid
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The Aarhus air raid took place on 31 October 1944, when 25 Mosquitoes from 140 Wing Royal Air Force of the 2nd Tactical Air Force, bombed the Gestapo headquarters at the University of Aarhus, Denmark.
Operation Carthage
…deaths (including 87 schoolchildren and 18 adults at the school). The incident was dramatised in the 2021 Danish film The Shadow in My Eye. A similar raid against the Gestapo headquarters in Aarhus, on 31 October 1944, had succeeded. The raid was requested by members of the Danish resistance movement to free imprisoned members and to destroy the…
Damaged barracks near Aarhus University residence halls, bombed on 31 October 1944
Royal Air Force- 2nd Tactical Air Force, 1943-1945.