His Bomber Command threw 2,355 sorties at Hamburg in three massive nighttime raids on July 24-25, July 28, and July 30. The redoubtable “Bomber” Harris was right. The name bestowed on this series of raids seemed to fit its wrath-of-God nature. Harris, the attacks on the so-called “second city of the Reich” were “incomparably more terrible” than any Germany had suffered to that point. In the view of Air Chief Marshal Arthur T. RAF Bomber Command all but annihilated the German city of Hamburg at the close of July 1943.
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