Soviet Bo Against Berlin in 1941

Berlin Bombings in 1941 — a series of air raids on the capital of Hitler's Germany, Berlin, carried out from August 7 to September 5 1941, by Soviet Aviation during World War II.

Бомбардировки Берлина в 1941 году
Part of Вторая мировая война,
Великая Отечественная война

Пожары в ночном Берлине (1941)
Date7 августа — 5 сентября 1941 года
Location
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Belligerents
 СССР Germany Третий рейх (нацистская Германия)
Commanders and leaders
25px ВВС СССР
Жаворонков С.Ф.
Жигарев П.Ф.
Преображенский Е.Н.
Водопьянов М.В.
Голованов А.Е.		 рейхсканцлер Адольф Гитлер
гауляйтер Берлина Йозеф Геббельс
министр авиации Герман Геринг
Strength
 СССР
дивизия тяжёлых бомбардировщиков		 Germany Третий рейх
Центральный округ
ВВС и ПВО
Casualties and losses
 СССР
пришло в негодность 17 (18) самолётов, погибло 8 экипажей		 32 крупных пожара в городе

Background

On July 22, 1941, exactly one month after the start of the Great Patriotic War, German aviation for the first time carried out a massive air raid on Moscow, which was comparatively reflected successfully.

On July 24, the Germans repeated the bombardment, this time they managed to drop 300 tons of High Explosives and Incendiary Bombs. Against the backdrop of heavy losses in the air forces of the Red Army Propaganda Minister of Nazi Germany, Joseph Goebbels announced that the Soviet aviation is defeated, and the commander-in-chief of the Luftwaffe Hermann Goering is credited with the phrase: "No bomb will ever fall on the capital of the Reich!"[1][2] (the original phrase "No enemy bomber can reach the Ruhr" was said in September 1939 and subsequently rewritten;[3][4] already in June 1940, a French Air Force bomber became the first plane to bomb Berlin[5]).

At this time, the Soviet Baltic Fleet aviation developed a plan to strike from the Leningrad airfield hub at the base of the German Navy in Pillau.[6] Commander Air Force of the Navy of the USSR Lieutenant General S. F. Zhavoronkov proposed to redirect the forces prepared for the strike.[7] July 26 People's Commissar Navy Fleet of the USSR Admiral N. G. Kuznetsov together with Zhavoronkov at a meeting with Stalin suggested that he carry out retaliatory bombardments of Berlin by the forces of the Baltic Fleet Naval Aviation from airfield and "Cahul " on the island of Ezel - the westernmost point of land at that time, controlled by Soviet troops, but already in the rear of the rapidly advancing troops of Wehrmachta.

References
  1. "Newspaper of the prefecture of the Central Administrative District of Moscow "Moscow. Center"". Archived from the original on 2013-01-21. Retrieved 2013-01-17.
  2. "Blood for blood! August 8, 1941 - the first bombing of Berlin. | Dmitry Pankratov". Archived from the original on 2013-01-21. Retrieved 2013-01-17.
  3. Elayne Grant Archer. Crossing Troubled Waters: The Memoir of an English War Widow, p. 141.
  4. Why did Goering say 'You can call me Meyer'?
  5. French Air-raid on Berlin
  6. Kuznetsov N. G. On the way to victory. — M.: Voice, 2000
  7. OTsVMA, f. 255, d. 34134
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