The bombing of

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in World War II was carried out by the

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from 1944 until 1945. According to a 1950 census of war victims, a total of 327 people were killed by bombing. Over the course of the bombing, the areas of Črnomerec,

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and

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were hit the hardest. Borongaj was targeted as a location of a military airfield. On February 22, 1944, a Dominican monastery was hit by the bombing, resulting in the deaths of eight theology students. In response to these deaths, archbishop of Zagreb

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sent a letter to the British ambassador to the

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. On May 30, 1944, 100 bombs were dropped on Borongaj, each weighing 250 kg. In 2007 and 2008, unexploded ordnance was found in

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during construction. In 2008 a bomb was found in the nearby town of Sveta Nedelja.

Timeline

*February 22, 1944 –

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attacked.Kit C Carter, Robert Mueller, ''The Army Air Forces in World War II: Combat Chronology, 1941–1945''. DIANE Publishing, 1975 *April 6, 1944 – Fifteenth Air Force attacked, six US aircraft downed. *May 24, 1944 – Fifteenth Air Force attacked. *May 30, 1944 – Fifteenth Air Force attacked. *June 30, 1944 – Fifteenth Air Force attacked. *July 7, 1944 – Fifteenth Air Force attacked. *January 5, 1945 – Fifteenth Air Force attacked. *January 19, 1945 – Fifteenth Air Force attacked. *February 13, 1945 – Fifteenth Air Force attacked. *March 4, 1945 – Fifteenth Air Force attacked. *March 12, 1945 – Twelfth and Fifteenth Air Force attacked. *March 14, 1945 – Fifteenth Air Force attacked.

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