Martin Antonenko
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Operation Gomorrah - Coldly Planned Mass Murder ...!
In the evening hours of July 24, 1943, a total of 791 bombers of the new "Lancaster" type of the Royal Air Force took off from their bases in the south of England ...:
One hour before midnight, the bomber fleet reaches the northern German metropolis of Hamburg ...
... and releases its deadly cargo, a total of 2,300 tons of bombs ...:
Great Britain worked for a long time until the ideal recipe was found to burn down a large German city from the air:
First normal high-explosive bombs are dropped ...:
They destroy the streets and the water pipes that run under the streets; the fire brigade cannot get to the fires - and if they manage to do it, they have no water!
Next up is a mix of heavy air mines ...
... and dropped thousands of light phosphorus bombs...:
The heavy air mines (the Germans call them "Wohnblock-Knacker") fall faster than the phosphor bombs and detonate at about 30 meters height ...:
The air pressure of the huge detonations covers the roofs of the houses - and turns every building into a chimney!
The last thing to arrive are the small and light stick incendiary bombs, which are filled with phosphorus.
In the now open attics and the junk usually stored there, they find the ideal "tinder" to set the city on fire.
And: phosphorus ...
... cannot be extinguished with water, only with sand. And who has sand in the attic ...?
The countless individual fires set in this way then combine to form a coherent large fire, the notorious "firestorm" arises, in which the flames race along the streets with the force of an Oscar - and destroy the air there with one blow!
People suffocate in a firestorm and are already dead before they burn in the fire!
In Hamburg, on July 24, 1943, the RAF bombers succeeded in kindling a firestorm for the first time!
Although the destination, the St. Nikolai Church in the city center ...
... is missed and the bombs drop over a relatively wide area of the Hanseatic city, the damage in the city center and the districts of Hoheluft, Eimsbüttel and Altona is great - extensive fires occur! Some northwestern suburbs are also hit.
When the bombers turn away, 1,500 hamburgers are left dead!
Twelve "Lancasters" are shot down by German night fighters ...:
The air defense over Hamburg itself is practically blind, because the British, together with their bombs, drop thousands of tinfoil strips, so-called "Düppel" by the Germans ...::
The British have found out that these tinfoil strips blinds the German anti-aircraft control radar of the "Würzburg" type and thus makes it ineffective ...:
This is the first attack of the - revealingly - so-called "Operation Gomorrah", which aims to destroy the city of Hamburg.
The Chief of British Bomber Command, Air Marshal Arthur Harris ...
... had previously made no secret of the fact that the city center and the densely populated residential areas are the target of his air force!
This is intended to break the morale of the German population - Harris therefore quite openly calls the attacks "moral bombing"!
The RAF will come back to Hamburg three more times until August 4th ...
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In the evening hours of July 24, 1943, a total of 791 bombers of the new "Lancaster" type of the Royal Air Force took off from their bases in the south of England ...:
One hour before midnight, the bomber fleet reaches the northern German metropolis of Hamburg ...
... and releases its deadly cargo, a total of 2,300 tons of bombs ...:
Great Britain worked for a long time until the ideal recipe was found to burn down a large German city from the air:
First normal high-explosive bombs are dropped ...:
They destroy the streets and the water pipes that run under the streets; the fire brigade cannot get to the fires - and if they manage to do it, they have no water!
Next up is a mix of heavy air mines ...
... and dropped thousands of light phosphorus bombs...:
The heavy air mines (the Germans call them "Wohnblock-Knacker") fall faster than the phosphor bombs and detonate at about 30 meters height ...:
The air pressure of the huge detonations covers the roofs of the houses - and turns every building into a chimney!
The last thing to arrive are the small and light stick incendiary bombs, which are filled with phosphorus.
In the now open attics and the junk usually stored there, they find the ideal "tinder" to set the city on fire.
And: phosphorus ...
... cannot be extinguished with water, only with sand. And who has sand in the attic ...?
The countless individual fires set in this way then combine to form a coherent large fire, the notorious "firestorm" arises, in which the flames race along the streets with the force of an Oscar - and destroy the air there with one blow!
People suffocate in a firestorm and are already dead before they burn in the fire!
In Hamburg, on July 24, 1943, the RAF bombers succeeded in kindling a firestorm for the first time!
Although the destination, the St. Nikolai Church in the city center ...
... is missed and the bombs drop over a relatively wide area of the Hanseatic city, the damage in the city center and the districts of Hoheluft, Eimsbüttel and Altona is great - extensive fires occur! Some northwestern suburbs are also hit.
When the bombers turn away, 1,500 hamburgers are left dead!
Twelve "Lancasters" are shot down by German night fighters ...:
The air defense over Hamburg itself is practically blind, because the British, together with their bombs, drop thousands of tinfoil strips, so-called "Düppel" by the Germans ...::
The British have found out that these tinfoil strips blinds the German anti-aircraft control radar of the "Würzburg" type and thus makes it ineffective ...:
This is the first attack of the - revealingly - so-called "Operation Gomorrah", which aims to destroy the city of Hamburg.
The Chief of British Bomber Command, Air Marshal Arthur Harris ...
... had previously made no secret of the fact that the city center and the densely populated residential areas are the target of his air force!
This is intended to break the morale of the German population - Harris therefore quite openly calls the attacks "moral bombing"!
The RAF will come back to Hamburg three more times until August 4th ...
**continued next post**
