The bombing of Treviso, a town in Northeastern Italy, took place on 7 April 1944, during World War II.
Treviso, a town of 60,000 inhabitants located in the Veneto region, thirty kilometres north of Venice, was in a strategically important position for railway communications in northeastern Italy, and was therefore bombed several times by the Allied air forces.
159 Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress of the United States Army Air Force (escorted by Lockheed P-38 Lightning fighters) dropped over 2,000 bombs (446 metric tons of ordnance) during an attack which lasted five minutes (from 1.24 PM to 1.29 PM); the target was the local marshalling yard, but the inaccuracy of the bombing caused most of the bombs to fall all over the city, destroying most of it.
The attackers lost one B-17, shot down by anti-aircraft guns of the nearby Treviso Airport.
[3] As the bombing occurred on Good Friday, fascist propaganda called the day "passion of Christ and of Treviso".