The sirens started sounding in Dresden at 21:51 (CET). Wing Commander Maurice Smith, flying in a Mosquito, gave the order to the Lancasters: "Controller to ...
It is oft repeated that Churchill “ordered” the firebombing of Dresden as a “vicious payback” for the German bombing of Coventry (which Churchill is often ...
American author Kurt Vonnegut (1922-2007), who was a prisoner of war in Dresden during the Allied attack and tackled the controversial event in ...
Ordered by Deputy Chief of the Air Staff Norman Bottomley to bomb the city, Air Marshal Arthur Harris, head of the RAF's Bomber Command, ...
“Those who have unlearned how to cry,” lamented Nobel Prize recipient and Prussian dramatist Gerhart Hauptmann, “will learn it afresh on the ...
I had been in fights where the ground in front of me was littered with the remains of young men who had once been full of the joy of living, ...
The bombing of Dresden in February 1945 has remained one of the
The attack on Dresden began on 13 February 1945. Close to 800 RAF aircraft - led by pathfinders, who dropped flares marking out the bombing ...
Winston Churchill and the bombing of Dresden. This gallery contains three case studies and an activity, for key stage 3-5 pupils (age 11-18)
Ironically, Churchill had left London for the Yalta Conference when the Soviet request came in. He wasn't even there to give the order. The task ...