Yet they were expected to pinpoint military and industrial targets, often a single factory, deep inside Germany at night.
She had also flown bombing attacks on industrial targets in the Tokyo area.
Military, industrial, and civilian targets can only be attacked if the diplomatic relationship with a country is very bad.
Bombers can take out military, industrial, civilian targets and nuclear installations.
Most of the bombing was aimed at industrial targets, manufacturing machines and arms.
The Allies described the operation as the legitimate bombing of a military and industrial target.
A minimum of 31 numbered industrial targets were damaged or destroyed.
They said military and industrial targets were hit, and huge columns of smoke rose over the city.
They began to hit military and industrial targets in Iraq almost simultaneously two hours later, Pentagon officials said.
It might mean more, he said, but aimed at commercial and industrial targets.