| A | B |
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| carpetbombing | Planes scatter large numbers of bombs over a wide area. |
| RAF | Britain's _____ carried out long range bombing of Germany. |
| Fortresses | In a typical American raid, hundreds of B-17 Flying _____ took off from Britain. |
| ability | With these massive bombing raids, the Allies aimed to destroy Germany's _____ to fight the war. |
| underground | Due to bombing raids, Germans came to spend nights in _____ air raid shelters while enemy planes flew above. |
| Hamburg | On the night of July 28, 1943, firebombing turned _____ into one big blaze. |
| firestorm | combination of flames driven by fierce heat-generated winds |
| airraids | By 1944, British and American commanders were conducting coordinated _____, US planes bombing by day and RAF planes bombing at night. |
| aircraft | B-17s rained bombs on German _____ factories, railway lines, plants, bridges, and cities. |
| intensified | Allied bombings of Germany _____ after the US entered the war. |
