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The Allied Chiefs of Staff...

history · 16 April 1945 · 79 years ago

The Allied Chiefs of Staff formally decreed the ending of the area bombing campaign against Germany. In one of British Bomber Command's last major operations of the war, 900 bombers were despatched to attack the German island fortress of Helgoland. 

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