
Newspaper headline, after the night of 30 May, 1942

The four-engined, Handley Page Halifax heavy bomber

Vertical photographic-reconnaissance aerial taken over Cologne, Germany after the first ‘Thousand-bomber’ raid, showing the partially-destroyed exhibition hall (Osthalle) and railway sidings in Koln-Deutz

Der Kölner Dom (The Cologne Cathedral) took hundreds of shells, but did not fall

Hohenzollern Bridge, Köln, 1945

Köln Zentrum (center), 1945