On February 14, 1945,the bomb raid sirens pierced the air of Prague, then the capital of the Nazi protectorate of Bohemia. Few paid any attention on that afternoon. After all, allied warplanes had flown over the city numerous times in the past on their way to drop their bombs in Germany. This time, however, things would be different. The first warning was the humming of the warplanes close over the city. Then the bombs began to drop, some 700 in total. Destruction was slashed across a good swathe of the city. Under the rumble of homes, churches and businesses, lay the corpses of 700. Oddly, 65 years after that tragic day, no one has explained why American bombers unloaded their payload on one of Europe's most beautiful cities.
