Operation Carthage was a low level precision bombing attack on the Shellhus (Shellhouse) in Copenhagen. The building was the local headquarters of the Nazi state's secret police the Gestapo. Sadly some pilots mistook a nearby school (the Institut Jean d'Arc) for the Shellhus and bombed it, which reulted in 125 deaths. . This is the Institut Jeanne d'Arc, a Roman Catholic girl school in Frederiksberg Allé, Frederiksberg, Copenhagen, that was mistakenly bombed during the raid

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