A few Yugoslav aircraft managed to shoot down some Luftwaffe planes.
Posted on 04/06/2010 9:32:42 AM PDT by Ravnagora
BELGRADE, April 6 (Tanjug) - The Day of Remembrance of the victims of the German aggression on the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, which began on April 6, 1941, with heavy bombing and mass destruction of Belgrade, is being marked in Serbia Tuesday.
The attack of Hitler's Third Reich began without the declaration of war, despite the fact that several days earlier the government of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia declared Belgrade an open (undefended) city.
The first bombs were dropped on Belgrade on Sunday morning, April 6, 2941, at 6.30 a.m., while a large majority of the inhabitants of the capital was still asleep.
The German bombers released destructive and flammable bombs on Belgrade four times on that day, and around 4 p.m. around thirty bombers came from the direction of Romania shooting refugees who were leaving the ruined city in panic.
The then capital of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia was again attacked on April 11 and 12. The attacks were also performed at night and a total of 440 tons of bombs were dropped on the city.
The exact number of victims was never precisely determined.
There were 2,274 people listed as killed in Belgrade, which then had 370,000 inhabitants, but it is believed that the real number was around 4,000 people.
The city sustained considerable material damage - 714 buildings were completely destroyed, 1,888 were severely damaged, whereas 6,829 were partly damaged. The densely populated parts of the city, hospitals, market, the railway station, the main post office and Zemun airport were bombed.
By April 17, 1941, when the army of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia capitulated, the towns of Kraljevo, Leskovac, Kragujevac and Novi Sad were bombarded, as well as several other towns in which mostly strategic objects such as infrastructure and airports were targeted.
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Ping!
They found a WWII bomb on my street this afternoon and evacuated people to a school. I sent my wife and daughter to her mother. It’s still there, I think they are planning to take it away but traffic is a mess.
It’s disarmed.
Did Hitler try to cover up for a BJ for this?
Oh wait...
Potsdam / Berlin - which were found 250 kg bomb from the second world war is been mitigated this evening at the Berlin station East cross. This was reported by the police.
Construction workers had discovered the German bomb with a Russian detonators at noon. The police had jammed the area one of the most important to transfer stations in Berlin rail within about 500 feet. Around 300 houses had to be evacuated, about 600 people were affected. In the area it joined congestion on the roads.
In the S rail traffic on the Ringbahn thousands of people from the disabilities affected for hours. DPA
I read a few years back that the Berlin Construction companies find old five hundred pounders all the time is that true?
Finding WW2 bombs is pretty common. This one was in sand on a hill so they wanted everyone out.
A police car passed by with a loudspeaker telling people to evacuate so I sent my wife and daughter to her mother. Then the police car passed another three times and then they knocked my door and I told them we already evacuated. They wanted me to leave but I told them I would consider it and closed the door.
These colors don't run! (points to my red sweatpants and red/white Hawaiian shirt).Ha-ha! but seriously I got a one year old crazy dalmatian that can't be trusted alone and is too much of a pain to take anywhere. Plus I got thick walls.
Just finishing the job that Franz Josef started a generation before them.
A few Yugoslav aircraft managed to shoot down some Luftwaffe planes.
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