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They "conventrated" Cologne. When they bombed British towns the Luftwaffe called it "conventrating." On May 30th over 1,000 British bombers dropped the biggest load of bombs in history, on Cologne. But, unlike the Luftwaffe, the R.A.F. do not dump their bombs blindly - they attack German war industry with the clear object of weakening the German Army in the East ... Above: "Stirling" bombers, on of the many types of modern British bombers which "conventrated" Cologne ... [text in Arabic]

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Title: They "conventrated" Cologne. When they bombed British towns the Luftwaffe called it "conventrating." On May 30th over 1,000 British bombers dropped the biggest load of bombs in history, on Cologne. But, unlike the Luftwaffe, the R.A.F. do not dump their bombs blindly - they attack German war industry with the clear object of weakening the German Army in the East ... Above: "Stirling" bombers, on of the many types of modern British bombers which "conventrated" Cologne ... [text in Arabic]
Date Created and/or Issued: 1939/1945?
Contributing Institution: Hoover Institution
Collection: Hoover Institution Digital Collections
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Type: image
Identifier: XX343.19792
Relation: Poster collection

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