Over 3,800 buildings were damaged by bombing, but only 15 people lost their lives.
The hotel was badly damaged by German bombing in 1940.
Now the bombing has damaged the very legitimacy of the Lebanese government.
There was little visible evidence today on city streets of buildings damaged by American bombing.
In 1941, the museum building and artifacts were badly damaged by bombing.
The chapel was damaged in 1941 by bombing, and later demolished.
One of the primary criteria was that the target cities must not have been damaged by conventional bombing.
The church has been damaged by fire and bombing, but is still in active use as the area's parish church.
In 1943, the building was heavily damaged by bombing, then painstakingly restored.
The bombing had damaged the cranes used to move the Bibers into and out of the water.