Operation Gomorrah: The Firebombing of Hamburg

On July 24, 1943, RAF Bomber Command launched Operation Gomorrah against Hamburg, opening raids that would kill roughly 37,000 people. That first night, British crews pushed bundles of foil strips into the sky and erased the German radar network that had been shooting them down for a year. Four nights later, heat, weather, and dense apartment blocks combined into something nobody had planned for and nobody could reproduce.Send me a text!Support the show