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In 1941 mainly in retaliation for the German bombing of Moscow, Joseph Stalin personally ordered the Soviet Air Force to bomb Königsberg. Eleven Pe-8 bombers attacked the city on 1 September 1941. The Soviets did not lose a bomber in the raid. The city was occasionally bombed again by the Soviet Air Force, like on 26 July 1942, 27 August 1942 or 15 July 1943. On 29 April 1943, the bombers dropped one 11,000 pounder on the city's area, the largest bomb in the Soviet inventory.

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  • Bombing of Königsberg in World War II
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  • In 1941 mainly in retaliation for the German bombing of Moscow, Joseph Stalin personally ordered the Soviet Air Force to bomb Königsberg. Eleven Pe-8 bombers attacked the city on 1 September 1941. The Soviets did not lose a bomber in the raid. The city was occasionally bombed again by the Soviet Air Force, like on 26 July 1942, 27 August 1942 or 15 July 1943. On 29 April 1943, the bombers dropped one 11,000 pounder on the city's area, the largest bomb in the Soviet inventory.
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  • In 1941 mainly in retaliation for the German bombing of Moscow, Joseph Stalin personally ordered the Soviet Air Force to bomb Königsberg. Eleven Pe-8 bombers attacked the city on 1 September 1941. The Soviets did not lose a bomber in the raid. The city was occasionally bombed again by the Soviet Air Force, like on 26 July 1942, 27 August 1942 or 15 July 1943. On 29 April 1943, the bombers dropped one 11,000 pounder on the city's area, the largest bomb in the Soviet inventory. The first RAF attack was carried out by No. 5 Group on the night of 26/27 August 1944 using 174 Avro Lancasters. The raid, which was at the extreme range for the planes, was a round trip of from bases in England. Planes from RAF Skellingthorpe (Lincs) could not return to base and diverted to RAF Tain in N Scotland after 10:35 hours flying time (cf 11:20 return to base three days later.) Despite losing only four aircraft, the first attack was not particularly successful because most bombs fell on the eastern side of Königsberg missing the city centre. The next RAF raid occurred three days later on the 29/30 August. This time No. 5 Group dropped 480 tons of high explosive and incendiaries on the centre of the city. RAF Bomber Command estimated that 20% of industry and 41% of all the housing in Königsberg was destroyed. Out of a force of 189 Lancasters, German night fighters shot down 15 RAF bombers. The historic city centre was badly damaged and the districts of Altstadt, Löbenicht, and Kneiphof were nearly destroyed. The city's 14th-century cathedral was reduced to a shell. Extensive damage was also done to the castle, all churches in the old city, the university, and the old shipping quarter. German-Jewish author and musician Michael Wieck, a native of Königsberg, wrote in A Childhood Under Hitler and Stalin that "the people of Königsberg shall never expunge these nights of terror from their memory."
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