List of air raids on Hanau during World War II
This list includes the air raids on Hanau that took place during World War II . They were carried out by the Royal Air Force (RAF) and the United States Army Air Forces (USAAF).
date |
attacker |
target |
status |
Victim / damage |
comment |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
July 1, 1940 | RAF | Hanau | Air raid: 0:06 am - 2:16 pm | ||
August 25, 1940 | RAF | industrial area | Air raid: 0: 37-1: 28 a.m. | ||
28/29 September 1940 | RAF | Downtown | Air raid: 10:57 pm - 4:30 am | ||
8/9 October 1940 | RAF | Downtown | Air raid: 10:56 pm–1:03 am | ||
November 11, 1940 | RAF | Westbahnhof | Air strike: 2: 41-3: 42 am | Duds | |
May 10, 1941 | RAF | northern urban area | Air raid: 0:30 am–2:35 pm | ||
July 24, 1941 | RAF | Adolf-Hitler-Strasse | Air strike: 0: 54-2: 37 am | 1 bomb | |
August 6, 1941 | RAF | eastern urban area, Wolfgang | Air raid: clock | ||
August 23, 1941 | RAF | Downtown | Air raid: 0:06 am–4:13 pm | ||
29./30. August 1941 | RAF | Downtown | Air raid: 11.44pm - 3.15pm | ||
12./13. September 1941 | RAF | west of Hanau-Kesselstadt | Air raid: 11: 05-4: 31 pm | ||
24./25. October 1941 | RAF | Downtown | Air raid: 10: 21–00: 45 pm | ||
1./2. April 1942 | RAF | Central station , Freigerichtviertel | Air strike: 11: 20–4: 10 am | ||
8/9 September 1942 | RAF | Frankfurter Landstrasse | Air strike: 11:50 p.m. - 2:30 p.m. | ||
October 4, 1943 | USAAF | Dunlop | Air raid: 10:44 a.m. - 12:13 p.m. | ||
November 26, 1943 | RAF | Hanau | Air raid: 2: 04-3: 46 am | ||
February 4, 1944 | USAAF | Hanau and Mittelbuchen | Air raid: 11: 35–12: 56 pm | ||
March 2, 1944 | USAAF | Frankfurt and Offenbach | Alarm 11:45 a.m. - 1:45 p.m. | no | |
March 18, 1944 | RAF | Freigerichtviertel | Air raid: 9:00 p.m. - 11:15 p.m. | ||
September 25, 1944 | USAAF | Hanau | Air raid, alarm 10: 40-22: 22 | 133 deaths, property damage, especially in Hanau-Lamboy , the superstructure material warehouse there and the city center | Outside the development: 476 explosive funnels. |
5th / 6th October 1944 | RAF | Downtown | Air raid: 10:01 pm–0: 17 pm | ||
November 5, 1944 | USAAF | Hanau main station, Wolfgang | Air raid, alarm 10: 53-13: 24 | 5 dead, property damage | |
November 10, 1944 | USAAF | Hanau main station, Wolfgang, Wilhelmsbad | Air Raid, Alarm 12: 42-13: 05: 2250 multi-purpose bombs - more than 100 tons | nine locomotives, 15 freight wagons and a locomotive shed destroyed | |
2nd / 3rd December 1944 | Hanau, city center | multiple alarms during the night | no | ||
December 3, 1944 | RAF | Mainhafen Hanau | Air raid, alarm 8:38 am to 9.49 am | ||
4th December 1944 | USAAF | Railway systems in the Hanau area | Air raid, low-flying attacks | not specified | |
December 7, 1944 | RAF | Hanau | Air strike: 0:30 am - 1:00 am | ||
December 7, 1944 | RAF | Hanau | Air attack: 6:59 pm - 7:23 pm: Dropping 5 air mines | the Roman Catholic Church Mariae Namen is destroyed | |
December 11, 1944 | USAAF | Hanau Central Station | Alarm: 11: 09-13: 13, air raid: 11: 45-12: 07 | 22 dead | due to poor visibility, the 4,768 bombs also spread to other parts of Hanau |
December 12, 1944 | USAAF | Hanau main station, industrial plants, city center | Alarm: from 10:58, air raid: 11:55 am to 12:15 pm | 145 dead, including 18 forced laborers , residential areas, main train station, Dunlop, Heraeus , gas works , the Roman Catholic St. Josef Church, the Evangelical Christ Church and the Gustav Adolf Hospital (today: Martin Luther Stift ) badly damaged | |
December 17, 1944 | RAF | Hanau, city center | Air strike: 7: 04–7: 27 pm | 41 dead | |
January 1, 1945 | RAF | Hanau | "Mock attack" to distract fighter planes from the air raid on Dortmund , alarm: 6:40 pm - 8:00 pm | Property damage | |
January 2, 1945 | RAF | Hanau | Diversion attack due to an attack on Ludwigshafen and Nuremberg : 6:42 p.m. - 7:00 p.m. | no damages | |
January 5, 1945 | USAAF | Hanau, railway and industrial facilities | Alarm: 12:00 pm - 2:25 pm | 6 dead, hit: Central Station, Dunlop and other industrial facilities | |
January 6, 1945 | RAF | Hanau, city center and main train station | Alarm: 6:30 p.m., air raid: 6:50 p.m. - 7:27 p.m. | Old town of Hanau destroyed | Due to the cloud cover, a significant number of the bombs did not hit downtown Hanau. |
January 7, 1945 | RAF | Central Station | Diversion attack, alarm: 19: 45-20: 45 | no | |
February 17, 1945 | USAAF | Railway systems | Attack: 11: 50-12: 15 | 1 dead, property damage | 2 Allied bombers crashed in the city area. |
March 16, 1945 | RAF | Hanau | Distraction attack, alarm 20: 15-22: 30, attack: 21: 20-21: 45 | Property damage | |
March 19, 1945 | RAF | Hanau | Area bombing; Attack 4:24 am – 4:40 am, 279 aircraft: 1200 tons, including 248 heavy air mines and 360,000 stick bombs (642 tons) | 2000 dead, total destruction of the inner city |
literature
- Hans – Günter Stahl: The aerial warfare over the Hanau area 1939–1945 = Hanauer Geschichtsblätter 48. Hanau 2015. ISBN 978–3–935395–22–1
Remarks
- ↑ The sirens failed due to the power failure caused by the attack. The all-clear could therefore no longer be given. From then on, this was done by the police, who used hand sirens. In the future, an air alarm was given by three flak shots at an interval of about 10 seconds. (Stahl: Der Luftkrieg , p. 236)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t Stahl: Der Luftkrieg , p. 392.
- ↑ Stahl: Der Luftkrieg , p. 114.
- ↑ Stahl: Der Luftkrieg , p. 173.
- ↑ Stahl: Der Luftkrieg , pp. 201, 392.
- ↑ Stahl: Der Luftkrieg , pp. 216, 392.
- ↑ a b c Stahl: Der Luftkrieg , p. 220.
- ↑ Stahl: Der Luftkrieg , pp. 222, 392.
- ↑ Stahl: Der Luftkrieg , p. 228ff.
- ↑ Stahl: Der Luftkrieg , p. 235f.
- ↑ Stahl: Der Luftkrieg , p. 262.
- ↑ Stahl: Der Luftkrieg , p. 270.
- ↑ Stahl: Der Luftkrieg , p. 271f.
- ↑ Stahl: Der Luftkrieg , p. 272.
- ↑ Stahl: Der Luftkrieg , p. 305.
- ↑ Stahl: Der Luftkrieg , pp. 314–319.
- ↑ Stahl: Der Luftkrieg , p. 322.
- ↑ Stahl: Der Luftkrieg , p. 329.
- ↑ Stahl: Der Luftkrieg , p. 339.