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saturation bombing
noun as in carpet bombing
Weak match
Example Sentences
They were wiped out because most of the rest of Japan's urban centers had already been destroyed by saturation bombing campaigns directed by LeMay.
But by the mid 1960s, B-52s were being used in conventional saturation bombing missions in Vietnam.
He conducted classified research on saturation bombing for the Royal Air Force during the Second World War, and travelled to Japan to document the effects of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings.
Known as Bomber, Chief Marshal Harris was, in Professor Hansen’s view, obsessed with saturation bombing of German cities.
Virtually all of the 22 major cities in North Korea were severely damaged and hundreds of thousands of civilians killed by U.S. saturation bombing.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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