saturation bombing

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Harris was criticising for having masterminded saturation bombing of areas of Germany that cost large numbers of civilian lives.

From BBC • Dec. 23, 2015

The most eye-opening sections of “The Korean War” detail America’s saturation bombing of Korea’s north.

From New York Times • Jul. 21, 2010

For Cologne, where the R.A.F. first tried saturation bombing, was at last in American hands and available for expert Allied study.

From Time Magazine Archive

As a result, the U.S. has resorted to saturation bombing of suspected supply areas that sometimes turn out to be ammunition and gasoline caches but are frequently only empty jungle.

From Time Magazine Archive

They are fleeing American air strikes as much as North Vietnamese shelling, since territory occupied by the North Vietnamese has been subject to saturation bombing.

From Time Magazine Archive