Eighty-three years ago today, on May 30, 1942 (April 16, 1942 in the lunar calendar), thousands of Royal Air Force bombers attacked Cologne. After being attacked by the Royal Air Force, Cologne City On the night of May 30th, all the Royal Air Force were dispatched and thousands of bombers were sent to attack Cologne. At dawn, the British side estimated that its air force had destroyed more than 200 factories in Cologne. Royal Air Force bombers dropped more than 2,000 tons of bombs on Cologne. According to the Royal Air Force's estimates, the damage they caused to Cologne this night is greater than the damage caused by the more than 1,300 previous attacks they launched combined. British Air Marshal Sir Harris admitted that this saturation bombing had no specific target, but Harris hoped to disrupt Germany's economic order through more carpet air strikes.