विमानांचे हल्ले / बेचिराख जिल्हे...Oh what have you done to Johan Christian Dahl's Dresden?

Oh bountiful Gods of the air! Oh Science and Progress!

You great big wonderful world! Oh what have you done?

—John Betjeman, “1940”

बा सी मर्ढेकर, 'प्रेमाचे लव्हाळें', १, कांही कविता, मर्ढेकरांची कविता, १९७७

"... विमानांचे हल्ले,

बेचिराख जिल्हे;

रक्ताचीं थारोळी;

अपंग आरोळी;

..."

Wikipedia:

The bombing of Dresden was a joint British and American aerial bombing attack on the city of Dresden, the capital of the German state of Saxony, during World War II. In four raids between 13 and 15 February 1945, 772 heavy bombers of the Royal Air Force (RAF) and 527 of the United States Army Air Forces (USAAF) dropped more than 3,900 tons[vague] of high-explosive bombs and incendiary devices on the city. The bombing and the resulting firestorm destroyed more than 1,600 acres (6.5 km2) of the city centre. Up to 25,000 people were killed

 View of Dresden by Moonlight, by Johan Christian Dahl (1788-1857