[Laurent Rizzotti]

The book "Quand les Alliés bombardaient la France" (When Allied bombed France) gives the number of 67 078 civilians killed by air raids. This is coming from official reports according to the author.

The precision of the number is making me smile. Extensive studies have been made for the departements of Normandie listing civilian casualties during the battle of Normandy, and in each of them hundred of civilian just went missing, while tens or hundred of corpses were buried as unknown.

I have also not been able to find if this number is just for victims of Allied raids, or also including the victimes of German and Italian bombs in 1940 (and in 1944-45, where they killed some hundred of people).

I also think that these numbers are not including the victims in the various French colonies that were bombed during the war (according to one source, 752 civilians were killed in Tunisia by Allied bombs, while thousand were killed by American bombs in French Indochina between 1942 and 1945).

But my opinion is that between 60 and 70 000 people were killed in France by Allied bombs, and that is roughly 20% of the civilian losses of the country.