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Originally Posted by blazejos

I just read about an action done by lone polish R.XIIIG hydro
in 7th September 1939 late evening. His mision was bombing BB Schleswig-Holstein near Westerplatte but when he arrived fighting were finished and batleship already gone in darkness as rest of the city. Westerpllate fall during that day but Lublin crew don't know about this. So they flight over dark streets of Danzig old town and by blind luck or rather by torches lights and loud military music suprised german NSDAP victory parade.
In memories of the crew is mentioned that they relase all 6 small bombs inside happy crowd with flags and torches and use MG from the rear to diperase them.

By the way, it would have been an terror bombing against civilians (like the ones performed by the Germans against Wieluń, Warsaw and then British cities, and then by the Western allies...) - but Polish historian Andrzej Olejko indicated slight doubts in 2018, that there are no signs of such attack in German sources - while it might have been used for propaganda...