carpet bombing
Sign in to saveAlso known as saturation bombing, Tedder's carpet, obliteration bombing, saturation bombardment, Tedder carpet
aerial bombing done on a massive scale to damage every part of a selected area
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It is catalogued under the topic Aerial bombing.
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- area bombardment
- Subclass of
- airstrike
- Image
- Rotterdam, Laurenskerk, na bombardement van mei 1940.jpg
- Significant event
- Bombing of Chongqing
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- uses
- unguided bomb
- has characteristic
- war crime
- described by source
- Protocol I
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Encyclopedic overview
The first carpet bombing from air in history was the Bombing of Barcelona. 1,300 people were killed in 3 days, 16–18 March 1938 On 14 May 1940 at 1:22 pm, in the Rotterdam Blitz, German bombers set the entire inner city on fire with incendiary bombs, killing 814 inhabitants Wesel was 97% destroyed before it was finally taken by Allied troops in 1945
Carpet bombing, also known as "saturation bombing" and "obliteration bombing", is a large area bombardment done in a progressive manner to inflict damage in every part of a selected area of land. Carpet bombing refers to a type of area bombing that aims to effect complete destruction of the target area by exploding bombs in every part of it. The phrase evokes the image of explosions completely covering an area, in the same way that a carpet covers a floor. Carpet bombing is usually achieved by dropping many unguided bombs.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “carpet bombing” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.