The British bomber crews had intended to bomb the Haagse Bos where the Germans had installed V-2 launching facilities that had been used to attack English cities. But the pilots were issued with the wrong coordinates so the meteorological instruments of the bombers had been set incorrectly, and fog and clouds obscured their vision. The bombs were instead dropped on the Bezuidenhout residential neighbourhood.
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| - The British bomber crews had intended to bomb the Haagse Bos where the Germans had installed V-2 launching facilities that had been used to attack English cities. But the pilots were issued with the wrong coordinates so the meteorological instruments of the bombers had been set incorrectly, and fog and clouds obscured their vision. The bombs were instead dropped on the Bezuidenhout residential neighbourhood.
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| - Motorized Nazi artillery launched 1,027 V-2 rockets at London from The Hague — 79 failed at launch and only 600 reached London .
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| - 20000(xsd:integer)
- *511 killed, 344 injured,
- Bezuidenhout civilian casualties :
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| - All bombs missed the 1.5 miles x 0.5 miles forest target by more than 500 yards and hit the Bezuidenhout neighbourhood instead.
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| - Bombing of the Bezuidenhout
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| - The British bomber crews had intended to bomb the Haagse Bos where the Germans had installed V-2 launching facilities that had been used to attack English cities. But the pilots were issued with the wrong coordinates so the meteorological instruments of the bombers had been set incorrectly, and fog and clouds obscured their vision. The bombs were instead dropped on the Bezuidenhout residential neighbourhood.
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