The British Royal Air Force bomber crews of No. 5 Group had been given the stadium of the Dresden Sport Club (DSC), whose football team had won the 1944 German Wartime Cup a few months before, as the aiming point for the first air raid on the evening of 13 February 1945. The target sector was marked in white on the target map, which was assembled from individual aerial photographs of the city. The sector designated an area of Dresden’s city centre roughly in the shape of a quadrant with a radius of approximately 2,160 m. The Zwinger and Postplatz were approximately at its centre. Bombs were to be dropped evenly across the target sector, with the DSC Stadium as the aiming point.
At 10.05pm, British Pathfinder aircraft began to drop illuminating flares over the DSC Stadium. At 10.13pm the first bomber formations arrived over Dresden.

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