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Description: A Handley Page Halifax of No. 4 Group flies over the suburbs of Caen, France, during a major daylight raid to assist the Normandy land battle during Operation CHARNWOOD. 467 aircraft took part in the attack, which was originally intended to have bombed German strongpoints north of Caen, but the bombing area was eventually shifted nearer the city because of the proximity of Allied troops to the original targets. The resulting bombing devastated the northern suburbs.
Title: Bombing of caen
Credit: This photograph CL 347 comes from the collections of the Imperial War Museums (collection no. 4700-19) Transferred from en.wikipedia to Commons.
Author: Royal Air Force official photographer
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