What kind of would have been dropped on Molching?

By Abhishek, Tana & Josh The Bombing of Germany 1940 - 1945

In World War II approximately 410,000 german civilians were killed due to allied air raids. - That is equivalent to the population of wellington being wiped out twice.

From July 1944 to 1945 an average of 13,536 people will killed every month.

In alone 49,000 civilians were killed and in Berlin 35,000. Strategic Bombings over Germany

Instead of bombing Germany at the most populated areas of the country, the allies also bombed places like ports, railways and industrial districts. These were much less protected areas to , which meant a higher success rate, but an equal amount of damage (if not more) to the financial growth of the county. One of the most well known was the ’s Mosquito. It had a payload of 4000lps (1814kg) and did many bombing runs on on Germany. The Mosquito had been designed to deliver its payload as one bomb of 4000lbs (1814kg), or 4 bombs weighed 500lbs (227kg) each. The Blockbuster

The Blockbuster or its nickname the cookie, was one of the largest conventional bombs used by the Royal Air Force ( RAF ). weighing in at 1,400 lb or 640 kg. It was called the blockbuster because it had a high enough explosive power to destroy entire streets or buildings. The Blockbuster was normally carried by the .

- These most likely would have been used in the bombing of Molching British soldiers loading the “Blockbuster” into de Havilland Mosquito (British Aircraft) The Grand Slam

The Grand Slam is a medium capacity bomb weighs in at 22,000 lb or 9979 kg. Used by the RAF, The Grand Slam targeted German targets such as docks and shipyards. The Grand Slam when tested has the ability to leave a 9.1m deep hole with a 38m diameter and had a blast yield of 6.5 tons The Grand Slam was normally carried by Avro Lancasters

A Grand Slam bomb being handled Bombing of Berlin - June 7th 1940

Berlin the capital of Nazi Germany was a main target of the allies. Berlin was raised with 440 avro lancaster carrying The Grand Slam and 4 de Havilland Mosquitoes carrying the Blockbusters. The british dropped 45,517 tons of bombs while the Americans dropped 23,000 tons of bombs. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Slam_(bomb) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blockbuster_bomb https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20150922-these-nazi-bombs-are-more-dangerous-now-than-ever-before https://humanities.exeter.ac.uk/history/research/centres/warstateandsociety/projects/bombing/germany/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombing_of_Berlin_in_World_War_II https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategic_bombing_during_World_War_II https://www.history.com/news/world-war-ii-allied-bombings-shockwaves-space