Maquis des Vosges 5 September Heinrich Himmler made a short visit to Gerardmer to give orders to the officials of the Wehrmacht and the SS and especially to intensify the campaign against the Maquis. This most probably explains the targeted operations against the Maquis thereafter. The Vosges Maquis whose histories have been particularly well documented were the Maquis de Charmes, the Maquis Viombois, the Maquis Noiregotte, and the Maquis de la Piquante Pierre. Maquis des Vosges The Maquis des Vosges were groups of French resistance fighters in the Department of the Vosges during the Second World War. They were associated through an amalgamation
Bombing of Chiba in World War II to mechanical problems. A year after the war, the United States Army Air Forces's Strategic Bombing Survey (Pacific War) reported that 43.5 percent of the city had been totally destroyed by both raids combined. Bombing of Chiba in World War II The was part of the strategic bombing campaign waged by the United States of America against military and civilian targets and population centers during the Japan home islands campaign in the closing stages of World War II, and included two separate air raids in 1945. The second, and larger, air raid of July 6, 1945 is also referred to