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Bamberger Bombs |
| Posted by Mark Andersen on 2013-03-13 10:15:22 |
| Bamberg was targeted just not that much and it avoided widespread destruction. There is this little website with the following snippet: "Although Bamberg was fortunate and escaped some of the devastation, there were incidents in the closing months of the war. Bombing ruined three of Bamberg’s numerous breweries and killed a number of people taking shelter in the Polarbären-Keller beer garden in 1945. Most of the major monuments and historical landmarks escaped damage but over 300 buildings were totally destroyed. On February 22, 1945, American pilots returning from a failed mission elsewhere randomly dumped their deadly load on Bamberg. Three 50 kg bombs killed 17 people and hit the old Redeemer Church, leaving only the tower undamaged." http://www.exulanten.com/bomba2.html |