Bombardment of Chefchaouen

Bombardment of Chefchaouen
Part of Rif War
DateSeptember 17, 1925
Location
Chefchaouen, Morocco
Belligerents

 France

Jebala Tribes

The Bombardment of Chefchaouen was an aerial bombardment of Chefchaouen, Morocco carried out in the middle of the Rif War by a rogue American squadron in the service of the French colonial empire, the Escadrille Cherifienne, on September 17, 1925. The bombing of Chefchaouen, in which civilians were largely the victims, was one of the first ever bombings of civilians by airplane in history.

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