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Area bombing directive

Avro Lancaster bomb bay showing "Usual" area bombardment mix of 4,000-pound "Cookie" blast bomb and 30-pound incendiary bombs before a raid on Bremen, September 1942
An elderly woman in front of the bodies of school children in Cologne, Germany, after a bombing raid

The Area Bombing Directive was a directive from the wartime British Government's Air Ministry to the Royal Air Force, which ordered RAF Bomber Command to destroy Germany's industrial workforce and the morale of the German population, through bombing German cities and their civilian inhabitants.


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Area Bombing Directive German Directive sur le bombardement de zone du 14 février 1942 French Директива о бомбардировках по площадям Russian Area Bombing Directive Turkish

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