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carpet bombing (dict)

Carpet Bombing

• The origins of bombing theory with Giulio Douhet
• First use of area bombing on a civilian target: Bombing of Guernica, April 1937
• First use of area bombing on a military target: Battle of El Mazuco, Asturias, September 1937
• The bombing of London and other British cities in World War II, also known as the Blitz
• The systematic destruction of German and Japanese population centers during World War II particularly: RAF Bomber Command's Battle of Berlin (air). Firestorms created by RAF Bomber Command in the bombing of Hamburg and the bombing of Dresden and USAAF in the bombing of Tokyo.
• Strategic bombing
• The effectiveness of carpet bombing in the Vietnam War
• The use of B52s to bomb the Iraqi National Guard in the Gulf War (1990–1991)

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