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Bombing of Vienna in World War II : ウィキペディア英語版 | Bombing of Vienna in World War II
The city of Vienna in Austria was bombed 52 times during World War II, and 87,000 houses of the city were lost (20% of the entire city). Only 41 civilian vehicles survived the raids, more than 3,000 bomb craters were counted. and the Schwarzenberg Palace was bombed but later rebuilt. ==History== After a lone Soviet air raid conducted on 4 September 1942,〔(Bremen, Vienna, Budapest get fierce mass air raid ) by William Dickinson, British United Press, 5 September 1942〕 Vienna was finally reached by western Allied bombers in 1944, when the Allied invasion of Italy allowed them to establish an air base at Foggia. Following the Normandy Invasion the greater part of the German Air Force (''Luftwaffe'') was transferred to the West. Remaining ''Luftwaffe'' shot down one-tenth of 550 bombers in June 1944. The air defenses of Vienna were aided by a ring of anti-aircraft batteries set up around the city and three pairs of Flak towers. These were large anti-aircraft gun blockhouses built in the city. Due to the increasing lack of fuel, by autumn 1944, artillery on the ground was the only defence against air raids. It typically took some 5,000 small-calibre and 3,400 large-calibre shells to bring down one bomber. During the day, one out of 125 planes was shot down on average. During the night, this dropped to only one out of 145. However, roughly one-third of the bombers and escorts suffered heavy damage.
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