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| combatant1 = {{flagicon|V PRL}} [[People's Army of Luepola|Luepolan People's Air Force]] | | combatant1 = {{flagicon|V PRL}} [[People's Army of Luepola|Luepolan People's Air Force]] | ||
| combatant2 = {{flagicon|V KRV}} [[ | | combatant2 = {{flagicon|V KRV}} [[Imperial Vierz Air Force]] | ||
|commander1 = {{flagicon|V PRL}} Jozef Horovitz | |commander1 = {{flagicon|V PRL}} Jozef Horovitz | ||
|commander2 = {{flagicon|V KRV}} | |commander2 = {{flagicon|V KRV}} Walter Stromberg | ||
|strength1 = {{flagicon|V PRL}} 611 bomber aircraft<br>538 fighter escorts | |strength1 = {{flagicon|V PRL}} 611 bomber aircraft<br>538 fighter escorts | ||
|strength2 = {{flagicon|V KRV}} | |strength2 = {{flagicon|V KRV}} 413 fighter aircraft<br>10th Anti-Aircraft Brigade | ||
| casualties1 = 38 aircraft, including crews | | casualties1 = 38 aircraft, including crews | ||
| casualties2 = 40,000 civilians | | casualties2 = 101 aircraft, including crews<br>1,000 soldiers<br>40,000 civilians | ||
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Revision as of 16:17, 29 March 2020
| Bombing of Talheim | |||||||
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| Part of East Vierz Front of the Great War | |||||||
 Luepolan B-40 bombers fly through anti-aircraft flak over the previously bombed Gersellau factories. | |||||||
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 Luepolan People's Air Force |
 Imperial Vierz Air Force | ||||||
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Jozef Horovitz |
Walter Stromberg | ||||||
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611 bomber aircraft 538 fighter escorts |
413 fighter aircraft 10th Anti-Aircraft Brigade | ||||||
| Casualties and losses | |||||||
| 38 aircraft, including crews |
101 aircraft, including crews 1,000 soldiers 40,000 civilians | ||||||
The bombing of Talheim (Vierz: Luftangriffe auf Talheim; Luepolan: Bombardovaňie Talhajma), also known in Vierzland as the Talheim Catastrophe (Vierz: Talheimische Katastrophe) was a series of Luepolan bombing raids on the city of Talheim, a large city and prominent logistics hub within the Vierz Empire in the Great War. Over the course of a week, Luepolan People's Air Force dropped thousands of tonnes of explosives and incendiary devices on the city, including chemical weapons on 28 and 29 September, with the dual objectives of neutralizing Talheim as a logistical hub in advance of Luepola's planned conquest of Kasenberg and terrorizing the Vierz populace to break Vierz morale.