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Events on Saturday 30 May 1942 1
1942Thousand-bomber raid on CologneRAF launches its first 1,000-bomber attackRAF Bomber Command sent more than 1,000 aircraft against Cologne in Operation Millennium. The raid destroyed thousands of buildings and killed several hundred people. Arthur Harris used it to show what large-scale area bombing could do.