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1935 The Luftwaffe is created as Germany
's air for (March 11?)
1937 Spanish Civil War
: Guernica, Spain
is bombed by German
Luftwaffe.
1937 In his report of the Falangist attack on Guernica, British journalist George Steer reports that he had found German
bomb casing; that means that Luftwaffe planes were connected with the attack
1940 Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands
and her government flee to London
; Rotterdam subjected to savage terror bombing by the Luftwaffe - 980 killed, 20,000 buildings destroyed.
1940 World War II
: Luftwaffe Junkers 88 bomber sinks British ship ''RMS Lancastria'', that was evacuating troops from near Saint-Nazaire, France
. Death toll is over 2500. Wartime censorship prevents the story going publi
1940 AA World War II: Battle of Britain - During a nighttime air raid by the German
Luftwaffe, St. Paul's Cathedral is pierced by a bomb; Musician John Lennon
is born during an air-raid in Liverpool
, England
.
1940 World War II
: In England
, the city of Coventry
is destroyed by 500 German
Luftwaffe bombers (150,000 fire bombs, 503 tons of high explosives, 130 parachute mines leveled 60,000 of the city's 75,000 buildings; 568 people were killed).
1941 World War II: The start of the "three nights' Blitz" over Swansea, South Wales
. Over these three nights of intensive bombing, which lasted a total of 13 hours and 48 minutes, Swansea town centre was almost completely obliterated by the 896 High Explosive bombs employed by the Luftwaffe. A total of 397 casualties and 230 deaths were reported. The Three nights Blitz ended in the early hours of February 22.
1941 World War II: The United Kingdom
's House of Commons
is damaged by the Luftwaffe in an air raid.
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