From the Feb. 7, 2015, Express (U.K.) "Total Destruction: 70 years ago the Allies launched their historic raid on Dresden" by Adrian Lee.
Seventy years ago, on the night of Feb. 13, 1945, the English Bomber Command ordered two raids, 3 hours apart on the historic German city of Dresden. Over 2,600 tons of high explosives and incendinaries were dropped.
Up to 25,000 died in the firestorm the explosives started, said to be visible from the air over 500 miles away. Dresden was still burning the next day when hundreds of U.S. B-17 Flying Fortresses struck.
--GreGen
The USS North Carolina (BB-55) My all-time favorite warship. As an elementary school student in North Carolina, I donated nickels and dimes to save this ship back in the early sixties.
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