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- Bombing_of_France_during_World_War_II abstract "Between the German victory in the Battle of France and the liberation of the country, the Western Allies bombed many locations in France. In all 1,570 French cities and towns were bombed by Anglo-American forces between June 1940 and May 1945. The total number of civilians killed was 68,778 men, women and children. (including the 1,700 civilians killed in Royan).The total number of injured was more than 100,000. The total number of houses completely destroyed by the bombings was 432,000, the number of partly destroyed houses 890,000. The most destroyed cities were the following: Saint-Nazaire (Loire Atlantique): 100% Tilly-la-Campagne (Calvados): 96% Vire (Calvados): 95% Villers-Bocage (Calvados): 88% Le Havre (Seine-Maritime): 82% Saint-Lô (Manche): 77% Falaise (Calvados): 76% Lisieux (Calvados): 75%The bombings in Normandy before and after D-Day were especially terrible. The famous French historian Henri Amouroux in La Grande histoire des Français sous l’Occupation, says that 20,000 civilians were killed in Calvados department, 10,000 in Seine-Maritime, 14,800 in the Manche, 4,200 in the Orne, around 3,000 in the Eure. All together, that makes more than 50 000 killed. During the year 1943 alone, 7,458 French civilians died under allied bombs. The most terrible allied bombings during the German occupation were these: Boulogne-Billancourt near Paris (2–3 March 1942, more than 600 killed people), Saint-Nazaire (9, 14, 17 and 18 November 1942, 228 dead), Rennes (8 mars 1943, 299 dead), Boulogne-Billancourt again (4 April 1943, 403 dead), Le Portel (8 September 1943, 510 dead), Paris western suburbs (9 and 15 September 1943, 395 dead), Nantes (16 and 23 September 1943, 1,247 dead), Toulon (24 November 1943, 450 dead), Lille (9–10 April 1944, 450 dead), Rouen (18–19 April 1944, 900 dead), Noisy-le-Sec (18–19 April 1944, 464 dead), Paris-La Chapelle (20–21 April 1944, 670 dead), Sartrouville (27–28 May 1944, 400 dead), Orléans (19 and 23 May 1944, 300 dead), Saint-Etienne (26 May 1944, more than 1,000 dead), Lyon (26 May 1944, 717 dead), Marseille (27 May 1944, 1,752 dead), Avignon (27 May 1944, 525 dead), Lisieux (6–7 June 1944, 700 dead), Vire (6–7 June 1944, 400 dead), Caen (6–7 June 1944, more than 1,000 dead), Le Havre (5–11 September 1944, more than 5,000 dead), Royan (5 January 1945, 1,700 dead), etc. During the day of May 27 alone, 1944, 3,012 French civilians were killed by Anglo-American bombings on Marseille, Avignon, Nîmes, Amiens, Sartrouville, Maisons-Laffitte and Eauplet.".
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- Bombing_of_France_during_World_War_II comment "Between the German victory in the Battle of France and the liberation of the country, the Western Allies bombed many locations in France. In all 1,570 French cities and towns were bombed by Anglo-American forces between June 1940 and May 1945. The total number of civilians killed was 68,778 men, women and children. (including the 1,700 civilians killed in Royan).The total number of injured was more than 100,000.".
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