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saturation bombing

noun

  1. intense area bombing intended to destroy everything in the target area.


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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of saturation bombing1

First recorded in 1940–45
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They were wiped out because most of the rest of Japan's urban centers had already been destroyed by saturation bombing campaigns directed by LeMay.

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But by the mid 1960s, B-52s were being used in conventional saturation bombing missions in Vietnam.

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He conducted classified research on saturation bombing for the Royal Air Force during the Second World War, and travelled to Japan to document the effects of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings.

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Known as Bomber, Chief Marshal Harris was, in Professor Hansen’s view, obsessed with saturation bombing of German cities.

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Virtually all of the 22 major cities in North Korea were severely damaged and hundreds of thousands of civilians killed by U.S. saturation bombing.

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