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Bombing of Hanover in World War II
War
- Desc: The Bombing of Hannover was a series of eighty-eight air raids by RAF Bomber Command and the United States Army Air Forces on the German city of Hannover during World War II. 4,748 residents and 2,034 others were killed.
- Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombing_of_Hanover_in_World_War_II
- Type: Event, Thing
- Result Score: 856.05
War
- Desc: The Blitz was a German bombing campaign against Britain in 1940 and 1941, during the Second World War. The term was first used by the British press and is the German word for 'lightning'.
- Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Blitz
- Type: Thing, Event
- Result Score: 795.46
Armed conflict
Attack
Attack
Military strike
- Desc: The attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise military strike by the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service upon the United States against the naval base at Pearl Harbor in Honolulu, Hawaii on Sunday morning, December 7, 1941.
- Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attack_on_Pearl_Harbor
- Type: Event, Thing
- Result Score: 433.06
War
- Desc: The Allied bombing of Hamburg during World War II included numerous attacks on civilians and civic infrastructure. As a large city and industrial centre, Hamburg's shipyards, U-boat pens, and the Hamburg-Harburg area oil refineries were attacked throughout the war.
- Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombing_of_Hamburg_in_World_War_II
- Type: Event, Thing
- Result Score: 352.62
War
- Desc: The Bombing of Tokyo was a series of firebombing air raids by the United States Army Air Forces during the Pacific campaigns of World War II.
- Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombing_of_Tokyo
- Type: Event, Thing
- Result Score: 352.14
War
- Desc: Allied forces conducted many air raids on Japan during World War II, causing extensive destruction to the country's cities and killing between 241,000 and 900,000 people.
- Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_raids_on_Japan
- Type: Thing, Event
- Result Score: 265.74
War
- Desc: The Coventry Blitz was a series of bombing raids that took place on the English city of Coventry. The city was bombed many times during the Second World War by the German Air Force.
- Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coventry_Blitz
- Type: Event, Thing
- Result Score: 233.95
Invasion
- Desc: Operation Retribution, also known as Operation Punishment, was the April 1941 German bombing of Belgrade, the capital of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, in retaliation for the coup d'état that overthrew the government that had signed the Tripartite Pact.
- Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Retribution_(1941)
- Type: Thing, Event
- Result Score: 228.73
War
- Desc: The German city of Cologne was bombed in 262 separate air raids by the Allies during World War II, all by the Royal Air Force but for a single failed post-capture test of a guided missile by the United States Army Air Forces.
- Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombing_of_Cologne_in_World_War_II
- Type: Thing, Event
- Result Score: 228.26
War
- Desc: The Bulgarian capital of Sofia suffered a series of Allied bombing raids during World War II, from late 1943 to early 1944. United Kingdom and the United States declared a token war on Bulgaria on 13 December 1941.
- Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombing_of_Sofia_in_World_War_II
- Type: Event, Thing
- Result Score: 207.40
War
- Desc: The bombing of Rome in World War II took place on several occasions in 1943 and 1944, primarily by Allied and to a smaller degree by Axis aircraft, before the city was invaded by the Allies on June 4, 1944.
- Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombing_of_Rome_in_World_War_II
- Type: Thing, Event
- Result Score: 204.15
War
- Desc: The city of Vienna in Austria was bombed 52 times during World War II, and 37,000 houses of the city were lost. Only 41 civilian vehicles survived the raids, more than 3,000 bomb craters were counted. and the Schwarzenberg Palace was bombed but later rebuilt.
- Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombing_of_Vienna_in_World_War_II
- Type: Event, Thing
- Result Score: 191.63
Attack
War
War
- Desc: The Bombing of Bremen in World War II by the British Royal Air Force and US Eighth Air Force targeted strategic targets in the state Free Hanseatic City of Bremen, which had heavy anti-aircraft artillery but only 35 fighter aircraft in the area.
- Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombing_of_Bremen_in_World_War_II
- Type: Event, Thing
- Result Score: 172.53
War
War
- Desc: The bombing of Munich took place mainly in the later stages of World War II. Munich was, and is, a significant German city, as much culturally as well as industrially. Augsburg, twenty miles to the west, was a main centre of diesel engine production.
- Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombing_of_Munich_in_World_War_II
- Type: Thing, Event
- Result Score: 165.07
War
Attack
Event
- Desc: The bombing of Zadar during the Second World War by the Allies lasted from November 1943 to October 1944. Although other large cities in Italy were also bombed, the bombing of Zadar stands out because of the number of attacks and the number of fatalities.
- Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombing_of_Zadar_in_World_War_II
- Type: Thing, Event
- Result Score: 158.44
War
- Desc: The German Luftwaffe and Soviet Long Range Aviation bombed the Estonian capital Tallinn several times during World War II. The first instance was during the Summer War of 1941. A number of bombing missions followed in 1942–43.
- Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombing_of_Tallinn_in_World_War_II
- Type: Event, Thing
- Result Score: 157.82
War
- Desc: The bombing of Wieluń comprised air raids on the Polish town of Wieluń by Germany's Luftwaffe on 1 September 1939. The Luftwaffe began bombing Wieluń in the early morning on the first day of World War II.
- Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombing_of_Wielu%C5%84
- Type: Event, Thing
- Result Score: 140.77
War
- Desc: The bombing of Nagaoka took place on the night of 1 August 1945, as part of the strategic bombing campaign waged by the United States against military and civilian targets and population centers in the Japan home islands during the closing stages of World War II.
- Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombing_of_Nagaoka
- Type: Event, Thing
- Result Score: 127.34
War
- Desc: The Liverpool Blitz was the heavy and sustained bombing of the English city of Liverpool and its surrounding area, during the Second World War by the German Luftwaffe.
- Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liverpool_Blitz
- Type: Event, Thing
- Result Score: 103.88
War
- Desc: The Taihoku Air Raid that took place on 31 May 1945 was the largest Allied air raid on the city of Taihoku during World War II.
- Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raid_on_Taipei
- Type: Event, Thing
- Result Score: 103.66
King
- Desc: George I was King of Great Britain and Ireland from 1 August 1714 and ruler of the Duchy and Electorate of Brunswick-Lüneburg in the Holy Roman Empire from 23 January 1698 until his death in 1727. He was the first British monarch of the House of Hanover.
- Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_I_of_Great_Britain
- Type: Thing, Person
- Result Score: 99.22
City in Germany
- Desc: Hamburg, officially the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg, is the second-largest city in Germany and 8th largest city in the European Union with a population of over 1.8 million.
- URL: http://www.hamburg.de/
- Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamburg
- Type: Thing, City, Place, AdministrativeArea
- Result Score: 93.18
City in Germany
- Desc: Hanover or Hannover is the capital and largest city of the German state of Lower Saxony. Its 535,061 inhabitants make it the thirteenth-largest city of Germany, as well as the third-largest city of Northern Germany after Hamburg and Bremen.
- URL: http://www.hannover.de/
- Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanover
- Type: Thing, City, Place, AdministrativeArea
- Result Score: 90.54