Item: Cologne (Germany)
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!["Bezirk" bombs in world's biggest air raids. Panic spread thought Germany on May 30th, when in the first thousand-bomber raid in history Cologne was "coventrated" - to use the expression the Germans themselves coined for their raids on British towns. ... [text in Arabic]](/internal/media/dispatcher/227417/postagestamp)
!["Bezirk" bombs in world's biggest air raids. Panic spread thought Germany on May 30th, when in the first thousand-bomber raid in history Cologne was "coventrated" - to use the expression the Germans themselves coined for their raids on British towns. ... [text in Arabic]](/internal/media/dispatcher/227416/postagestamp)
![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]](/internal/media/dispatcher/227396/postagestamp)
![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]](/internal/media/dispatcher/227397/postagestamp)
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Collection Title: Poster collection
Date Created: 1939/1945?
Medium: political posters
Record Number: XX343.19810
Collection Title: Poster collection
Date Created: 1939/1945?
Medium: political posters
Record Number: XX343.19814
Collection Title: Poster collection
Date Created: 1939/1945?
Medium: political posters
Record Number: XX343.19813
Collection Title: Poster collection
Date Created: 1939/1945?
Medium: political posters
Record Number: XX343.19812
Collection Title: Poster collection
Date Created: 1939/1945?
Medium: political posters
Record Number: XX343.19790
Collection Title: Poster collection
Date Created: 1914/1918?
Medium: political posters
Record Number: XX343.6031
Collection Title: Poster collection
Date Created: 1910/1920?
Medium: political posters
Record Number: XX343.8785
Collection Title: Poster collection
Date Created: 1918?
Medium: political posters
Record Number: XX343.5332
Collection Title: Poster collection
Date Created: 1939/1945?
Medium: political posters
Record Number: XX343.19811
Collection Title: Poster collection
Date Created: 1935?
Medium: political posters
Record Number: XX343.8998
Collection Title: Poster collection
Date Created: 1939/1945?
Medium: political posters
Record Number: XX343.19791
Collection Title: Poster collection
Date Created: 1939/1945?
Medium: political posters
Record Number: XX343.19789
Collection Title: Poster collection
Date Created: 1939/1945?
Medium: political posters
Record Number: XX343.19792
Collection Title: Poster collection
Date Created: 1939/1945?
Medium: political posters
Record Number: XX343.19793