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1945 Bombing of Prague
The Bombing of Prague
occurred towards the end of
World War II
on February 14, 1945, when the
US Army Air Forces
carried out an air raid over
Prague
. The city was the capital of
Czechoslovakia
and (since the
Nazi occupation
in 1939) the main city of the
Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia
. According to American pilots, it was the result of a navigation mistake: at the same time, a massive
bombing of Dresden
was under way, 120 km north-west from Prague.
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