Maquis des Vosges 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 of different resistance groups roughly when the "Conseil national de la Résistance" was created on 27 May 1943. Maquis shrubland is a Mediterranean biome of dense scrub, which provided the guerrillas with cover. At the beginning of 1943 the principal resistance movements operating in the Vosges were: The resistance reorganised at this time into four groupings: - Maquis de Bulgnéville: La Vacheresse, Urville, St-Ouen, Robécourt, Contrexéville. - Maquis de Liffol:
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