Sentence examples for bombing in the second from inspiring English sources

More damage was visited on Britain's cities by architects and planners in the 1950s and 1960s than by all the German bombing in the second world war.

One of the few remaining elegant wooden buildings in central Tokyo that survived allied bombing in the second world war is the Mitsubishi lodge.

This monumental work, which stood near the Brandhorst, was destroyed by allied bombing in the second world war and has since been replaced.

Almost completely destroyed by Allied bombing in the second world war, Duisburg is a heavily industrialised Ruhr city, responsible for half of Germany's steel production.

"This way, doctors can avoid using broad-spectrum antibiotics, which are a bit like doing carpet bombing in the second world war," he says.

Is it really true, as the exhibition claims, that when John Piper painted buildings destroyed by bombing in the second world war he was taking delight in these new ruins?

American bombing in the first Iraq War destroyed some chemical weapons stocks and damaged others.

One woman from Glasgow brought the last fragment of her mother's house, which was bombed in the second world war.

The fine house is sold, and we are told that it was bombed in the Second World War and subsequently demolished.

Yes, it was bombed in the second world war, but the last successful, large scale invasion was the Norman invasion of 1066.

It's half a mile (1km) to Livorno's old centre, Piazza Grande, but the city was badly bombed in the Second World War and has little sightseeing.