The Allies dropped approximately 3,800 bombs on military units and governmental facilities in Taipei; many other buildings within the downtown area and Japanese quarter also suffered various damages.

Pilecki hoped that either the Allies would drop arms or troops into the camp or that the Home Army would organize an assault on it from outside.

Ally raised the gun and fired a blank at Potemkin, then dropped the pistol and ran off crying.

Finally, the Allies dropped atomic bombs on two Japanese cities, Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

The Allies were now dropping more incendiary bombs, which immediately set off great area fires, or if there was a wind, the dreaded fire storms.

To add to the German confusion, the Allies had dropped hundreds of lifelike rubber dummies, dressed as paratroopers, south of the Normandy invasion area.

During the Second World War the Allies dropped about 250 bombs on the station during an air raid on Weilheim on 19 April 1945.

Like Bittrich, Harzer was convinced that "the Allies had dropped no more than an airborne spearhead.

This was more than the total tonnage that the Allies dropped during all of the Second World War, including the bombs that struck Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

In autumn 1943, the Allies dropped leaflets in northern Germany that homeless people from the Reich would be welcome in the city.