Word: bochum
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...night raids the R.A.F. delivered some 15,000 tons of bombs to western Germany. Cologne got 2.500 tons (in two raids): Düsseldorf, Bochum and Krefeld in the Ruhr got 2,000 tons each in single raids: 1,500 tons fell on each of three other Ruhr targets. The R.A.F.'s three-month bomb total: 37,500 tons, more than three times the weight of bombs dropped on Germany in the same months last year...
...British learned the same lesson in a heavy night raid on Bochum. which followed close on the heels of the American attacks. In the Ruhr Valley they found German anti-aircraft defenses greatly strengthened since the bombing of the Mohne and Eder dams (TIME, May 31). They brought back reports of ack-ack guns apparently massed miles deep along the industrial center...