What the records say
- When
- 6 Oct 1944
- Kind
- Military operation
- Deaths
- 800
- Coordinates
- 54.31° N, 13.08° E
- Description
- 1944 airstrike
Placed at the area, not an exact site.
Stralsund
City in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany
Stralsund, officially the Hanseatic City of Stralsund, is the fifth-largest city in the northeastern German state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania after Rostock, Schwerin, Neubrandenburg and Greifswald, and the second-largest city in the Pomeranian part of the state. It is located on the southern coast of the Strelasund, a sound of the Baltic Sea separating the island of Rügen from the Pomeranian mainland.
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- Wikidata: military operations, raids and air strikesWikidata contributorsCreative Commons CC0 1.0 (public domain dedication)Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (French), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “bombardement de Stralsund par l’aviation américaine”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
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