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Gelsenkirchen was a target of strategic bombing during World War II, particularly during the 1943 Battle of the Ruhr and the Oil Campaign. Three quarters of Gelsenkirchen was destroyed and many above-ground air-raid shelters such as near the town hall in Buer are in nearly original form.
The Battle of the Ruhr (5 March – 31 July 1943) was a strategic bombing campaign against the Ruhr Area in Nazi Germany carried out by RAF Bomber Command during the Second World War. The Ruhr was the main centre of German heavy industry with coke plants, steelworks, armaments factories and ten synthetic oil plants.
DateTargetNotes5 March 5/6 MarchEssen442 aircraft (131 Wellingtons, 94 ...9 MarchRuhr8 Mosquitos, no loss10/11 MarchEssen, Mulheim2 Mosquitos, no losses12/13 MarchEssen457 aircraft (158 Wellingtons, 156 ...19 feb 2020 · Luftaufnahmen und Luftbilder von Gelsenkirchen nach dem Krieg 1945. Historische Bilder der Luftwaffe (US Air Force, Zweiter Weltkrieg) veranschaulichen die Trümmer nach Fliegerbomben und Ruinen...
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The Wurm is the major geographic feature. [1] The salient was a German position on the Siegfried Line ( Westwall) at the boundary between the British Second Army and the American 9th Army. It restricted the movement of Allied forces and was a potential threat. Background.
8 apr 2020 · Am 10. April 1945 endet für Gelsenkirchen der 2. Weltkrieg. US-Truppen rücken in die zerstörte Stadt vor. Bilder aus den letzten Kriegstagen.
303 aircraft - 286 Lancasters and 17 Mosquitos of Nos 1, 3 and 8 Groups - carried out the first raid of the new oil campaign; the target was the Nordstern synthetic-oil plant at Gelsenkirchen (the Germans called the plant Gelsenberg AG). 17 Lancasters were lost, 6,1 percent of the Lancaster force.
Gelsenkirchen (in basso tedesco Gelsenkiärken) è una città extracircondariale tedesca del Land della Renania Settentrionale-Vestfalia con 260 126 abitanti.
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