Bombing of Dresden

View of wreckage in Dresden, Germany, after fire bombing in World War II Photographer, Richard Peter (1895 – 1977), Created, September(?) 1945 Published, 1949. The bombing of Dresden by the British Royal Air Force (RAF) and United States Army Air Force (USAAF) between February 13 and February 15, 1945, 12 weeks before the surrender of the German Wehrmacht, remains one of the most controversial Allied actions of the Second World War. The raids saw 1,300 heavy bombers drop over 3,900 tons o

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