saturation raid

In the night of Sept. n, 1944, an Allied saturation raid blasted the city.

It was a "saturation raid" of a type soon to become familiar to the Germans in the homeland.

Furthermore, it was found in the last war that a saturation raid which greatly hampered fire-fighting forces caused damage far beyond the areas of immediate blast effects.

R.A.F. bombers staged a second saturation raid.