Sodom and Gomorrah جبل السدوم in Arabic) which consists mainly of salt. In the Plain of Sdom (מישור סדום) to the south there are a few springs and two small agricultural villages, Neot Hakikar and Ein Tamar. "Operation Gomorrah" was the name given to the Bombing of Hamburg in July 1943, in which 42,600 civilians were killed, and where use of incendiaries caused a vortex and whirling updraft of super-heated air which created a 460 meter high tornado of fire. Sodom and Gomorrah Sodom and Gomorrah () were cities mentioned in the Book of Genesis and throughout the Hebrew Bible, the New Testament,
The Battle of Hamburg (book) The Battle of Hamburg (book) The Battle of Hamburg (subtitled: "The Firestorm Raid") is a book by the British military historian Martin Middlebrook describing the combined RAF Bomber Command and USAAF 8th Air Force attacks on the German city of Hamburg in the Summer of 1943. The raids were carried out under the codename "Operation Gomorrah" and the initial attack became infamous for creating the phenomenon known as a firestorm, which caused great destruction to the city and its inhabitants. The book attempts to give a non-partisan account and goes into well researched detail about the raid, which includes interviews