I'm just back from sightseeing in Wismar. Two of the town's three great churches were seriously damaged in a British air raid in April 1945, less than three weeks before the war ended. According to German-language Wikipedia this raid was carried out by ten British Mosquitoes dropping explosive bombs, not firebombs. If that is correct, then the purpose of the raid seems to have been to smash up the churches and quaint old gabled houses of the Wismar Altstadt (the old town, which was surrounded by water, separate from the factories out of town that were bombed earlier in the War). I am curious: Was there any military advantage to be gained by doing that? Bart
