The first actual air raid took place over the skies of Venice, Italy in July of 1849. Unmanned balloons dropped bombs on the city at night causing fires and serious damage.
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Hitler wanted to control the air first by a bombing raid.
Air raids are where planes fly over cities or towns and bomb them. There is no raid as such, but the place is bombed. This is why there are places called air raid shelters, either steadily built above ground or dug in below ground where people could hide from the bombing.
He got all the people out of the houses and into a bomb shelter to keep them out from the bombs, they would do this when the air-raid siren sounded and he would run around to all the houses to Mae sure his people were safe!
There were actually two cities that were bombed by the US Air force. Those two cities that were bombed was named Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
On September 25th, 1939, Germany terror bombed the city of Warsaw, Poland. Historically, this was the first 'blitz' air raid upon a civilian population, with an estimated 1150 bombing sorties made by the Luftwaffe, dropping approx 500 tons of explosives and 72 tons of incendiaries in the Warsaw Blitz. So, in answer to your question, Germany started the Blitz
Hitler wanted to control the air first by a bombing raid.
Not for the people being bombed
It was bombed in 1941 during World War II during an air raid on Plymouth.
Air raids are where planes fly over cities or towns and bomb them. There is no raid as such, but the place is bombed. This is why there are places called air raid shelters, either steadily built above ground or dug in below ground where people could hide from the bombing.
An air raid is a flight of bombers attacking a city or other target. One purpose is to destroy military installations. In WW2 cities were bombed just to terrorize the civilian population and undermine their support of their government to continue warfare.
He got all the people out of the houses and into a bomb shelter to keep them out from the bombs, they would do this when the air-raid siren sounded and he would run around to all the houses to Mae sure his people were safe!
The Doolittle Raid was the first US air raid on mainland Japan.
There were actually two cities that were bombed by the US Air force. Those two cities that were bombed was named Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
The Doolittle Raid was the first US air raid on mainland Japan.
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Darwin was the city in Northern Australia, which was bombed by the Japanese during World War 2.
On September 25th, 1939, Germany terror bombed the city of Warsaw, Poland. Historically, this was the first 'blitz' air raid upon a civilian population, with an estimated 1150 bombing sorties made by the Luftwaffe, dropping approx 500 tons of explosives and 72 tons of incendiaries in the Warsaw Blitz. So, in answer to your question, Germany started the Blitz