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Switzerland World War II Schaffhausen Bombing, 1944 (b/w photo)

Switzerland World War II Schaffhausen Bombing, 1944 (b/w photo)
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Switzerland World War II Schaffhausen Bombing, 1944 (b/w photo)

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Walter Scheiwiller & Milou Steine

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black and white photograph

Date

1944 AD (C20th AD)

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Debris is cleared away by a cable dredger in order to start with the excavation for a garage in Schaffhausen, Switzerland, on October 8, 1944, during the war. In the background, construction for the house destroyed in the raid on Schaffhausen, is already underway. Half a year earlier, on April 1, 1944, the city of Schaffhausen and its surroundings were targeted by US-American combat aircraft due to misguided navigation. After bomber squadrons consisting of “Liberator” fighter jets dropped 371 incendiary and explosive bombs on the city near the German border, many large fires had broken out. 40 people died

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