This Month in WWII
May
(Bold denotes Major Attack)
| 1940 | Early May mostly minor operations on shipping, airfields, bridges & seaplane bases. Ruhr, Gembloux, Bremen, Cologne, Hamburg, Le Cateau, Northern France & Belgium, German Railways, Merseburg, Battle Areas, Calais, Dunkirk, shipping sweeps | ||||||||
| 1941 | Kiel, Den Helder, Hamburg, Cologne, Brest, Mannheim, le Havre, Ameland, Bremen, Kiel Canal, Bremerhaven, Hannover, shipping sweeps, Mannheim/Ludwigshaven, | ||||||||
| 1942 | Calais,, St-Omer, Dunkirk, Hamburg, Stuttgart, Belgium Power Stations, Warnemunde, Boulogne Docks, St-Nazaire, Paris - Gennevillers, COLOGNE 1000 Bomber Raid | ||||||||
| 1943 | Abbeville, Dortmund, Duisburg, Cherbourg Docks, Bochum, Pilsen, Airfields, RUHR DAMS, Berlin, Dusseldorf, Jena, Essen, Wuppertal | ||||||||
| 1944 | Toulouse, St-Ghislans, Chambly, Malines, Tours, Lyon, Mailly-le-Camp, Montdidier, Mantes-la-Jolie, Sable-sur-Sarthe, Aubigne, Nantes, St-Valery, Salbris, Rennes, Haine-St-Pierre, Brest, Berneval, Cap Griz Nez, Morsalines, Annecy, Gennevillers, Bourg-Leopold, Boulogne, Hasselt, French Railways, Louvain, Colline Beaumont, Trouville, Orleans, Amiens, Le Mans, le Clipon, Merville, Mont Couple, Dusseldorf, Duisburg, Dortmund, Braunschweig, Aachen, Eindhoven, Antwerp, Angers. Minor Operations and shipping | ||||||||
| 1945 | Kiel | ||||||||
The War in Europe Officially ended at Midnight 08-09 May 1945