This list, as said, is just the very first beginning and several definition and descriptive problems need to be solved. Topographical names tend to change over time, as border lines are pushed in wars towns are shifting from one nation to another and often change name in the process. The same process happens with countries that appear and disappear. The list below is still full of names that can be debated, or need better detailing. The same goes about the dating of aerial attacks. Many towns or areas have been attacked repeatedly during a war, and some even in several different wars. One example is London that has been bombed by zeppelins and airplanes from the German emperor in the First World War and has also been attacked by airplanes and rockets send in by Adolf Hitler during the Second World War. Does each singular attack to be listed, or is it better to summarise them as series of attacks. As I see it now, the last possibility is the best, because too much academic completeness will generate such an amount of information that the impact might be lost. Too rough figures have the opposite effect, so a balance must be found. The idea is to use in a later stage icons to generate visual statistics that give the needed insight, make quantities understandable and comparable.
Who has been bombed and , of course also, who have been bombing. Definition problems here also, and a need for a lot more detailing. The number of people who died in aerial attacks, were wounded, became homeless, areas that have been destroyed, all this needs to be quantified. And than, of course, also how many airplanes, rockets, tonnage of bombs, explosive power, was used and what was the price of human lives, all the pilots and other personnel, the ground assistance, the ammunition workers... Of course this side will not be forgotten. Last the unfortunate mistakes that are part of the game, airplanes lost in the fog, bombing their own towns, attacks on the wrong target, holding an aerial photograph up side down, a typing mistake in a computer, and other human mistakes. There are several clear examples and also not so clear ones, because nobody likes to admit a mistake. With all this in mind you are ready to read the first version of 90 years of aerial bombing of humans and their habitat.
Since I made this page in the beginning of January 1999, when I drafted this text and list, the unbombing project has painfuly proven its actuality. I am in the process to update my database and so long I have not done so, I just give two links which show the same phenomena from two sides (a Serbain Student website and the NATO site) to show with an up to date example how diffrent one can perceive the same event.
Free Serbia, Other voices form
Serbia
NATO & Kosovo
Multimedia
| 01 North America | no aerial bombing of towns | |
| 02 Middle America | almost no aerial bombing of towns | |
| 03 South America | no aerial bombing of towns | |
| 04 Europe | 221 towns | |
| 05 Africa | 9 towns/areas | |
| 06 Middle East | 11 towns | |
| 07 Asia | 102 towns | |
| 08 Australia Pacific | 4 towns/areas |
This list is still incomplete.....
02:Nicaragua: guerrilla stronholds of Sandino (1928) USA Air Force
04:Austria: Pola (Adriatic coast) (1915-1916) Italian Air Force
04:Belgium: Antwerp (1943-1945) USA Air Force/Luftwaffe (V2)
04:Belgium: Brussels (194?) Luftwaffe (V2)
04:Belgium: Liege (1944-1945) Luftwaffe (V2)
04:Belgium: Ostend (194?)
04:Belgium: Tournai (1944) Luftwaffe (V2)
04:Czechoslovakia: Pilsen (1942-) RAF
04:Finland: Helsinki (1939) Soviet Union
04:France: Angers (194?)
04:France: Arras (1944) Luftwaffe
04:France: Billancourt (194?)
04:France: Boulogne (194?)
04:France: Brest (1943) Allied Forces
04:France: Caen (1944) RAF
04:France: Calais (194?)
04:France: Cannes (194?)
04:France: Cherbourg (194?)
04:France: Clermont-Ferrand (194?)
04:France: Dunkirk (194?)
04:France: Gennevilliers (194?)
04:France: Juvisy (194?)
04:France: La Pallice (194?)
04:France: Le Creusot (194?)
04:France: Le Havre (1944) RAF
04:France: Le Mans (194?)
04:France: Lille (1942, 1944) USA Air Force/Luftwaffe
04:France: Lorient (1943) RAF
04:France: Meulan (194?)
04:France: Modane (194?)
04:France: Montbeliard (194?)
04:France: Orleans (194?)
04:France: Paris (1914, 1944) German Army airplanes/Luftwaffe
04:France: Paris (Boulogne Bilancourt) (1942) RAF
04:France: Poitiers (194?)
04:France: Rouen (1944) USA Air Force
04:France: Royan (1945) RAF
04:France: Saumur (194?)
04:France: St. Medartd en Jalles (194?)
04:France: St. Nazaire (1943) Allied Forces
04:France: Tourcoing (1944) Luftwaffe (V2)
04:France: Tours (194?)
04:France: Trappes (194?)
04:France: Vaires (194?)
04:Germany: Aachen (1939-1945) Allied Forces
04:Germany: Augsburg (1939-1945) Allied Forces
04:Germany: Bad Kreuznach (1939-1945) Allied Forces
04:Germany: Bamberg (1939-1945) Allied Forces
04:Germany: Bautzen (1939-1945) Allied Forces
04:Germany: Bayreuth (1939-1945) Allied Forces
04:Germany: Berchtegaden (1939-1945) Allied Forces
04:Germany: Berlin (1939-1945) Allied Forces
04:Germany: Bielefeld (1939-1945) Allied Forces
04:Germany: Bingen (1939-1945) Allied Forces
04:Germany: Bocholt (1939-1945) Allied Forces
04:Germany: Bochum (1939-1945) Allied Forces
04:Germany: Bohlen (1939-1945) Allied Forces
04:Germany: Bonn (1939-1945) Allied Forces
04:Germany: Bremen (1939-1945) Allied Forces
04:Germany: Bremerhaven (1939-1945) Allied Forces
04:Germany: Brunswick (1939-1945) Allied Forces
04:Germany: Castrop Rauxel (1939-1945) Allied Forces
04:Germany: Chemnitz (1939-1945) Allied Forces
04:Germany: Cottbus (1939-1945) Allied Forces
04:Germany: Cuxhaven (1943) Allied Forces
04:Germany: Darmstadt (1939-1945) Allied Forces
04:Germany: Desau (1939-1945) Allied Forces
04:Germany: Dresden (1939-1945) Allied Forces
04:Germany: Duisburg (1939-1945) Allied Forces
04:Germany: Duren (1939-1945) Allied Forces
04:Germany: Dusseldorf (1939-1945) Allied Forces
04:Germany: Eilenburg (1939-1945) Allied Forces
04:Germany: Eisenach (1939-1945) Allied Forces
04:Germany: Emden (1939-1945) Allied Forces
04:Germany: Emmerich (1939-1945) Allied Forces
04:Germany: Erfurt (1939-1945) Allied Forces
04:Germany: Essen (1939-1945) Allied Forces
04:Germany: Flensburg (1939-1945) Allied Forces
04:Germany: Flensburg (1939-1945) Allied Forces
04:Germany: Frankfurt am Oder (1939-1945) Allied Forces
04:Germany: Frankfurt an Main (1939-1945) Allied Forces
04:Germany: Freiburg (1939-1945) Luftwaffe/Allied Forces
04:Germany: Friederichshafen (1939-1945) Allied Forces
04:Germany: Fulda (1939-1945) Allied Forces
04:Germany: Gelsenkirchen (1939-1945) Allied Forces
04:Germany: Gelsenkirchen (1939-1945) Allied Forces
04:Germany: Gera (1939-1945) Allied Forces
04:Germany: Goppingen (1939-1945) Allied Forces
04:Germany: Gotha (1939-1945) Allied Forces
04:Germany: Gutersloh (1939-1945) Allied Forces
04:Germany: Hagen (1939-1945) Allied Forces
04:Germany: Halberstadt (1939-1945) Allied Forces
04:Germany: Halle (1939-1945) Allied Forces
04:Germany: Hamburg (1939-1945) Allied Forces
04:Germany: Hamm (1939-1945) Allied Forces
04:Germany: Hanau (1939-1945) Allied Forces
04:Germany: Hannover (1939-1945) Allied Forces
04:Germany: Hannover (1939-1945) Allied Forces
04:Germany: Heide (1939-1945) Allied Forces
04:Germany: Hildesheim (1939-1945) Allied Forces
04:Germany: industrial targets (?) (1917) British aircrafts
04:Germany: Ingolstadt (1939-1945) Allied Forces
04:Germany: Jena (1939-1945) Allied Forces
04:Germany: Kaiserlautern (1939-1945) Allied Forces
04:Germany: Karlsruhe (1939-1945) Allied Forces
04:Germany: KasselFulda (1939-1945) Allied Forces
04:Germany: Kiel (1939-1945) Allied Forces
04:Germany: Kleve (1939-1945) Allied Forces
04:Germany: Koblenz (1939-1945) Allied Forces
04:Germany: Koln (1939-1945) Allied Forces
04:Germany: Krefeld (1939-1945) Allied Forces
04:Germany: Leipzig (1939-1945) Allied Forces
04:Germany: Leverkusen (1939-1945) Allied Forces
04:Germany: Lubeck (1939-1945) Allied Forces
04:Germany: Ludwigshafen (1939-1945) Allied Forces
04:Germany: Magdeburg (1939-1945) Allied Forces
04:Germany: Mannheim (1939-1945) Allied Forces
04:Germany: Meiningen (1939-1945) Allied Forces
04:Germany: Merseburg (1939-1945) Allied Forces
04:Germany: Monchen Gladbach (1939-1945) Allied Forces
04:Germany: Munich (1939-1945) Allied Forces
04:Germany: Munster (1939-1945) Allied Forces
04:Germany: Neubrandenburg (1939-1945) Allied Forces
04:Germany: Neuss (1939-1945) Allied Forces
04:Germany: Neusterlitz (1939-1945) Allied Forces
04:Germany: Neuwied (1939-1945) Allied Forces
04:Germany: Nordhausen (1939-1945) Allied Forces
04:Germany: Nuremberg (1939-1945) Allied Forces
04:Germany: Oberhausen (1939-1945) Allied Forces
04:Germany: Offenbach (1939-1945) Allied Forces
04:Germany: Offenburg (1939-1945) Allied Forces
04:Germany: Oranienburg (1939-1945) Allied Forces
04:Germany: Osnabruck (1939-1945) Allied Forces
04:Germany: Paderborn (1939-1945) Allied Forces
04:Germany: Pforzheim (1939-1945) Allied Forces
04:Germany: Pirmasens (1939-1945) Allied Forces
04:Germany: Plauen (1939-1945) Allied Forces
04:Germany: Potsdam (1939-1945) Allied Forces
04:Germany: Prenzlau (1939-1945) Allied Forces
04:Germany: Rathenow (1939-1945) Allied Forces
04:Germany: Regensburg (1939-1945) Allied Forces
04:Germany: Remscheid (1939-1945) Allied Forces
04:Germany: Rennes (1943) RAF
04:Germany: Rheine (1939-1945) Allied Forces
04:Germany: Rositz (1939-1945) Allied Forces
04:Germany: Rostock (1939-1945) Allied Forces
04:Germany: Saarlouis (1942) RAF
04:Germany: Sarbrucken (1939-1945) Allied Forces
04:Germany: Schweinfurt (1939-1945) Allied Forces
04:Germany: Soest (1939-1945) Allied Forces
04:Germany: Solingen (1939-1945) Allied Forces
04:Germany: south-western Germany (1918) French Air Force/British Air
Force
04:Germany: Stralsund (1939-1945) Allied Forces
04:Germany: Straubing (1939-1945) Allied Forces
04:Germany: Stuttgart (1939-1945) Allied Forces
04:Germany: Trier (1939-1945) Allied Forces
04:Germany: Ulm (1939-1945) Allied Forces
04:Germany: Ulm (1939-1945) Allied Forces
04:Germany: Wesel (1939-1945) Allied Forces
04:Germany: Wiesbaden (1939-1945) Allied Forces
04:Germany: Wilhelmshaven (1939-1945) Allied Forces
04:Germany: Wismar (1939-1945) Allied Forces
04:Germany: Witten (1939-1945) Allied Forces
04:Germany: Worms (1939-1945) Allied Forces
04:Germany: Wuppertal (1939-1945) Allied Forces
04:Germany: Zeitz (1939-1945) Allied Forces
04:Germany: Zwickau (1939-1945) Allied Forces
04:Gibraltar: Gibraltar (1940) French Air Force
04:Great Brittian: Birmingham (1940-1941) Luftwaffe
04:Great Brittian: Bristol-Avonmouth (1940-1941) Luftwaffe
04:Great Brittian: Coventry (1940-1941) Luftwaffe
04:Great Brittian: Glasgow (1940-1941) Luftwaffe
04:Great Brittian: Gloucester (1944) Luftwaffe
04:Great Brittian: Hull (1940-1941) Luftwaffe
04:Great Brittian: Liverpool (1940-1941) Luftwaffe
04:Great Brittian: London (1915, 1916, 1940-1945) German Zeppelin
attacks/German airplanes/Luftwaffe
04:Great Brittian: Manchester (1940-1941, 1944) Luftwaffe
04:Great Brittian: Norwich (1944) Luftwaffe
04:Great Brittian: Plymouth Devonport (1940-1941) Luftwaffe
04:Great Brittian: Portsmouth (1940-1941) Luftwaffe
04:Great Brittian: Southampton (1940-1941, 1944) Luftwaffe
04:Greece: Elbasan (1941) RAF
04:Greece: Kattavia (Rhodos) (1941) RAF
04:Hungary: Budapest (1944) USA Air Force
04:Hungary: Debrecen (1944) USA Air Force
04:Hungary: Diosgyor (1944) RAF
04:Italy: Bari (1943) Luftwaffe
04:Italy: Genua (1942) RAF
04:Italy: La Spezia (1943) RAF
04:Italy: Milano (1942, 1943) RAF
04:Italy: Naples (1942) USA Air Force
04:Italy: Rome (1943) Allied Forces
04:Italy: Taranto (1940) RAF
04:Italy: Torino (1943) RAF
04:Lituania: Konigsberg (Kalingrad) (1943) Soviet Union Air Force/RAF
04:Lituania: Tilsit (Sovetsk) (1943) Soviet Union Air Force
04:Luxembourg: Luxembourg (194?) Luftwaffe
04:Malta: La Valetta (1941-1945) Luftwaffe/Italian Air Force
04:Netherlands: Den Haag (194?) RAF
04:Netherlands: Den Helder (194?) RAF
04:Netherlands: Eindhoven (1942) RAF
04:Netherlands: Enschede (194?) RAF
04:Netherlands: Hengelo (194?) RAF
04:Netherlands: IJmuiden (1945) RAF
04:Netherlands: Maastricht (1944) Luftwaffe
04:Netherlands: Rotterdam (1940, 194?) Luftwaffe/RAF
04:Netherlands: Vlissingen (194?) RAF
04:Norway: Oslo (1942) RAF
04:Norway: Trontheim (1943) USA Air Force
04:Poland: Danzig (1943) Soviet Union Air Force/USA Air Force
04:Poland: Drohobycz (1944) USA Air Force
04:Poland: Gotenhafen (Gdingen) (1943) USA Air Force
04:Poland: Insterburg (1943) Soviet Union Air Force
04:Poland: Polish front (1915) German Zeppelin attacks
04:Poland: Warsaw (1939) Luftwaffe
04:Rumania: Ploesti (1943-1944) USA Air Force
04:Russia: (German front ?) (1914-1917) Czar's Squadron of Flying Ships
04:Soviet Union: Leningrad (1941-1944) Luftwaffe
04:Soviet Union: Moscow (1941) Luftwaffe
04:Soviet Union: Sebastopol (1942) Luftwaffe
04:Spain: Bilbao (1937) Luftwaffe?
04:Spain: Guernica (1937) Luftwaffe
04:Spain: Madrid (1937) Luftwaffe
04:Yugoslavia: Belgrade (1941) Luftwaffe
04:Yugoslavia: Rijeka (Fiume) (1919) Force led by Gabriele d'Annanunzio
05:Egypt: Cairo (subburbs) (1970) Israelian Air
Force
05:Egypt: Port Said (1956) RAF/French Air Force
05:Eritrea: Asmera (1941) RAF
05:Ethiopia: (1935) Italian Air Force
05:Ethiopia: Debra Tabor (1941) RAF
05:Lybia: Tobruk (1941)
05:Lybia: Tripoli (1911) Italian Air Force
05:Lybia: Tripoli Quadaffiís headquarters (1986) USA Air Force
05:Marocco: Casablanca (1942) Luftwaffe
05:Marocco: (Spaanse Marokko) (1923) Spanish Army/French troops/German
Chemicals
06:Irak: Amara (1941) RAF
06:Irak: Bagadad (1990) USA Air Force
06:Irak: Osirak nuclear reactor (1981) Israelian Air Force
06:Iran: airfields (1980) Iraq Air Force
06:Iran: Kharg Island oil terminal (1985) Iraq Air Force
06:Libanon: Beirut (1980) Israelian Air Force
06:Libanon: guerrilla bases .... (1970) Israelian Air Force
06:Middle East: (tribal people) (1920-) RAF
06:North Yemen: border war with South Yemen (1979)
06:Palestine: (1918) British aircrafts
06:Syria: Damascus (1925) French Air Force
07:Afghanistan: Kabul (1979) Soviet Union Air Force
07:Bangladesh: Dakka (1972) Indian Air Force
07:Burma: Mandalay Fort Dufferin (1945) RAF
07:Cambodia: communist bases ... (1969) USA Air Force
07:China: Hanchow (1937) Japanese Air Force
07:China: Hankow (?) (1938) Japanese Air Force
07:China: Nanking (1937) Japanese Air Force
07:China: Shanghai (?) (1937) Japanese Air Force
07:China: Tientsin (1937) Japanese Air Force
07:Hong Kong: Hong Kong (1941) Japanese Air Force
07:India: North-West Frontiier (1920) RAF
07:Indonesia: Nonokromo (1944) Allied Forces
07:Indonesia: Surabaja (1944) Allied Forces
07:Japan: Akashi (1942-1945) USA Air Force
07:Japan: Amagasakmi (1942-1945) USA Air Force
07:Japan: Aomori (1942-1945) USA Air Force
07:Japan: Chiba (1942-1945) USA Air Force
07:Japan: Choshi (1942-1945) USA Air Force
07:Japan: Fukui (1942-1945) USA Air Force
07:Japan: Fukuoka (1942-1945) USA Air Force
07:Japan: Fukuyama (1942-1945) USA Air Force
07:Japan: Gifu (1942-1945) USA Air Force
07:Japan: Hachioji (1942-1945) USA Air Force
07:Japan: Hamamatsu (1942-1945) USA Air Force
07:Japan: Himeji (1942-1945) USA Air Force
07:Japan: Hiratsuka (1942-1945) USA Air Force
07:Japan: Hiroshima (1942-1945) USA Air Force
07:Japan: Hitachi (1942-1945) USA Air Force
07:Japan: Ichinomiya (1942-1945) USA Air Force
07:Japan: Imabari (1942-1945) USA Air Force
07:Japan: Isezaki (1942-1945) USA Air Force
07:Japan: Kagoshima (1942-1945) USA Air Force
07:Japan: Kawasaki (1942-1945) USA Air Force
07:Japan: Kobe (1942-1945) USA Air Force
07:Japan: Kochi (1942-1945) USA Air Force
07:Japan: Kofu (1942-1945) USA Air Force
07:Japan: Kumagaya (1942-1945) USA Air Force
07:Japan: Kumamoto (1942-1945) USA Air Force
07:Japan: Kure (1942-1945) USA Air Force
07:Japan: Kuwana (1942-1945) USA Air Force
07:Japan: Maebashi (1942-1945) USA Air Force
07:Japan: Matsuyama (1942-1945) USA Air Force
07:Japan: Mito (1942-1945) USA Air Force
07:Japan: Miyakonojo (1942-1945) USA Air Force
07:Japan: Miyazaki (1942-1945) USA Air Force
07:Japan: Moji (1942-1945) USA Air Force
07:Japan: Nagaoka (1942-1945) USA Air Force
07:Japan: Nagasaki (1942-1945) USA Air Force
07:Japan: Nagoya (1942-1945) USA Air Force
07:Japan: Nishinomiya (1942-1945) USA Air Force
07:Japan: Nobeoka (1942-1945) USA Air Force
07:Japan: Numazu (1942-1945) USA Air Force
07:Japan: Ogaki (1942-1945) USA Air Force
07:Japan: Oita (1942-1945) USA Air Force
07:Japan: Okayama (1942-1945) USA Air Force
07:Japan: Okazaki (1942-1945) USA Air Force
07:Japan: Omura (1942-1945) USA Air Force
07:Japan: Omuta (1942-1945) USA Air Force
07:Japan: Osaka (1942-1945) USA Air Force
07:Japan: Saga (1942-1945) USA Air Force
07:Japan: Sakai (1942-1945) USA Air Force
07:Japan: Sasebo (1942-1945) USA Air Force
07:Japan: Sendai (1942-1945) USA Air Force
07:Japan: Shimizu (1942-1945) USA Air Force
07:Japan: Shimonoseki (1942-1945) USA Air Force
07:Japan: Shizuoka (1942-1945) USA Air Force
07:Japan: T oyohashi (1942-1945) USA Air Force
07:Japan: Takamatsu (1942-1945) USA Air Force
07:Japan: Tokushima (1942-1945) USA Air Force
07:Japan: Tokyo (1942-1945) USA Air Force
07:Japan: Touyama (1942-1945) USA Air Force
07:Japan: Toyama (1942-1945) USA Air Force
07:Japan: Tsu (1942-1945) USA Air Force
07:Japan: Tsuruga (1942-1945) USA Air Force
07:Japan: Ube (1942-1945) USA Air Force
07:Japan: Ujiyamada (1942-1945) USA Air Force
07:Japan: Utsonomiya (1942-1945) USA Air Force
07:Japan: Uwajima (1942-1945) USA Air Force
07:Japan: Wakayama (1942-1945) USA Air Force
07:Japan: Yawata (1942-1945) USA Air Force
07:Japan: Yokkaichi (1942-1945) USA Air Force
07:Japan: Yokohama (1942-1945) USA Air Force
07:Laos: North Vietnamese supply depots ... (1971) USA Air Force
07:Manchuria: Mukden (Anschan) (1944) USA Air Force
07:Manchuria: needs further detailing (1951) USA Air Force
07:North Korea: May dams bombed (1953) USA Air Force
07:North Vietnam: Ben Tre (1968) USA Air Force
07:North Vietnam: Chaudoc (1968) USA Air Force
07:North Vietnam: Haiphong (1972) USA Air Force
07:North Vietnam: Hanoi (1967, 1968, 1972) USA Air Force
07:North Vietnam: Hue (1968) USA Air Force
07:North Vietnam: Mytho (1968) USA Air Force
07:North Vietnam: Ninh Binh (1967-1968) USA Air Force
07:North Vietnam: North Vietnam *needs further detailing) (1965, 1968,
1972) USA Air Force
07:North Vietnam: Phuly (1967) USA Air Force
07:North Vietnam: Thanh Hoa (1967-1968) USA Air Force
07:South Korea: Seoul (1950, 1951) North Korean Forces ?
07:South Vietnam: Da Nang area *chemical bombardments) (1965) USA Air
Force
07:South Vietnam: Duchai (1965) USA Air Force
07:Taiwan: (Formoasa) (1944) USA Air Force
07:Thailand: Bangkok (1944) USA Air Force
08:Marian Islands: Saipan (1944) Japanese Air Force
08:New Guinea: Hollandia (1944) USA Air Force
08:New Guinea: Port Moresby (1942) Japanese Air Force
08:Solomon Islands: Sizo (1942) USA Air Force