02/13 – The Bombing of Dresden

An RAF bomber during a sortie over Germany during WWII. (History.com) On this day in 1945, over 1,200 Allied bomber aircraft took to the skies for an attack on Dresden, an industrial city in Eastern Germany. That night, the first of four sorties (missions) began and, over the next 48 hours, 3,900 tonnes of incendiary…