Was barcelona bombed in ww2. It was received by general orgaz chief of the spanish army in catalonia and the other authorities of the city. How the japanese bombed michigan during world war ii november marks the 75th anniversary of a mostly unknown chapter of wwii an attack on the us. The first raid came at 1000 of 16th march.
Under the command of the italian dictator benito mussolini italian aircraft stationed on the island of majorca attacked 13 times dropping 44 tons of bombs aimed at the civil population. Barcelona was the residence of a relevant german colony during the 1930s. During world war ii spain was governed by an autocratic government but despite francos own pro axis leanings and debt of gratitude to benito mussolini and adolf hitler the government was divided between germanophiles and anglophileswhen the war started juan beigbeder atienza an anglophile was the minister of foreign affairs.
A new digital map has painstakingly recorded all the bombs that fell on britain during world war ii. Mussolini thought that aircraft could win a war with terror. Ww2incolor is made up of a large ww2 photograph collection of over 45 thousand images which.
The bombing of barcelona was a series of fascist italian and nazi german airstrikes supporting the franco led nationalist rebel army which took place from 16th through 18th march 1938 during the spanish civil warup to 1300 people were killed and at least 2000 wounded. The rapid german advance in europe. But he says the village was.
During his visit in spain ss leader heinrich himmler visited barcelona and the monastery of montserrat between 23 and 24 october 1940. Between 16 and 18 march 1938 barcelona was bombed by bombers of the italian air force flying from mallorca with spanish markings. The interactive map shows where every bomb landed from the first to hit the mainland in the.
Mystery bomb discovery sparks beach evacuation spanish police cleared a long stretch of the sant sebastia beach after a bomb likely dating from the spanish civil war was found at sea. It is considered the first carpet bombing from air in history. The very recognisable city of barcelona centre and towards the port under bombardment from italian aircraft acting in aid of the spanish nationalist forces 1938.
With bomb laden balloons two of which landed.