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Original – The Bombing of Hamburg in World War II included efforts to break morale by destroying housing. Here we see stark evidence of the result.
Reason
While necessarily imperfect - bits of the plane get in the photo - it's by far the best photo of the bombing of Hamburg I can find, showing the devastation in a hugely compelling way
Articles in which this image appears
Dehousing, Bombing of Hamburg in World War II, Air warfare of World War II, Hamburg, etc, etc.
FP category for this image
Wikipedia:Featured pictures/History/World War II
Creator
J. Dowd (Fg Off)

Promoted File:Royal Air Force Bomber Command, 1942-1945. CL3400.jpg --Armbrust The Homunculus 19:55, 3 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]