Marred

Usage examples of damaged.

In the exchange of fire which followed, the Stirling was badly damaged, but the Focke-Wulf 190 was also seen to be hit.

If a further eight bombers which were so badly damaged by fighter attack over Berlin that they crashed at various places on the return flight are added in, the Wild Boar operation could claim thirty-eight successes.

Many aviation and engineering workshops were damaged around Tempelhof Airport, where two light aircraft parked in the open were destroyed and where a Stirling bomber crashed.

At least one of these, and possibly another, had been damaged over Berlin.

Bomber Command that, throughout the trials of the coming winter, only two more damaged bombers took refuge in Sweden while raiding Berlin, even though routes often passed close by and the lights of that neutral country must have tempted many a crew.

Two more bombers soon crashed, possibly having been damaged over Berlin, but there were no more losses until a damaged Stirling of 75 Squadron succumbed 160 miles further on near Bonn, breaking into two parts in the air.

Four industrial buildings and 169 houses were destroyed, and some small factories were damaged, but no important firms are listed.

The propellers and radiators on both starboard engines were also damaged but not seriously.

Among the buildings listed as damaged were two Henschel aircraft factories and a Daimler-Benz works, the last possibly being damaged by a crashing bomber, and also the Marstall, a famous old Berlin building which had once housed the Imperial horses but was now being used as a library and museum.

The number of individual buildings in the housing and commercial classifications destroyed was 2,791, with another 2,835 seriously damaged and 23,000 slightly damaged.

Among the public buildings destroyed or seriously damaged in this raid were the Kaiser Wilhelm Museum, the former British Embassy, the administrative offices of the Waffen S.

The list of damaged industrial concerns contains some important war-industry names: three of the Siemens plants, B.

The German records also show that 175,000 flats had now been destroyed in Berlin, and a further seventy to eighty thousand were seriously damaged and unlikely to be repaired as long as the raids continued.

Railways were damaged and the Lichtenberg Power-Station put out of action, which left the main railway line to Hamburg cut and several eastern districts of the city without electricity the following day.

All of this would indicate a raid of medium to good success in areas of Berlin not damaged much in earlier raids.