Tonight in 1942, Britain’s RAF launches the first of the so-called “thousand-bomber raids” on Germany. Cologne is the target. Essen and Bremen will be hit in the days that follow. The objective of the campaign is to destroy enemy industrial capacity and break civilian morale.
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