Sixty-eight years ago today, British and American Air Forces dropped more than 2,600 tonnes of high-explosive bombs on the German town of Dresden. The fire storm it unleashed destroyed six square miles of the city centre and killed an estimated 25,000 people. The campaign has become known as one of the most controversial operations of the allied forces. London-born Victor [...]
The RAF commander who ordered the controversial fire-bombing of Dresden which killed an estimated 25,000 civilians during World War II said he would do it again in a long lost interview filmed 30 years after the end of the conflict. Former marshal of the Royal Air Force, Sir Arthur ‘Bomber’ Harris, gave the green light for the 1945 bombing which [...]
Arthur Harris led RAF Bomber Command in World War II, earning him the nickname ‘Bomber Harris’. His policy of ‘area’ bombing German cities including Cologne and Dresden made him a hugely controversial figure. BBC Inside Out has gained exclusive access to a rare interview with the Cheltenham-born RAF commander which has never been seen by the public. After 35 years [...]
RAF Bomber Command all but annihilated the German city of Hamburg at the close of July 1943. In the view of Air Chief Marshal Arthur T. Harris, the attacks on the so-called “second city of the Reich” were “incomparably more terrible” than any Germany had suffered to that point. The name bestowed on this series of raids seemed to fit [...]
The centenary of the Royal Air Force’s oldest squadron of aeroplanes was marked this month in Lincolnshire – an area so associated with the RAF it became known as Bomber County. But what is the significance now? The small Lincolnshire village of Scopwick has no more than a few hundred residents, but for many people around the world it is [...]
A RANDOM internet search revealed an incredible story of wartime sacrifice and heroism involving a Liverpool-born airman. George Wilkinson was only 27 when he was killed after the plane in which he was a rear gunner crashed under enemy fire during an operation over Germany in September 1943. He left a wife whom he had only married two years previously [...]
As a lone RAF wartime aircraft circled a blue sky in the Peak District this morning, the landscape looked a picturesque scene of tranquility and calm. But sixty-nine years ago today, the view from the ground looked very different as the brave Dam Busters crew took to the air, practicing for a stealth mission to destroy Germany’s dams during World [...]
The families of RAF Bomber Command servicemen have said the ticketing process for the unveiling of a monument for the crew who died in World War II has been confusing and unclear. They said many people had been waiting for invitations to the dedication of the monument in central London in June. The Bomber Command Association, which is organising the [...]
Posing tentatively in their uniforms, at first glance they could be a Lancaster Bomber crew preparing for a daring war-time mission. But these photos were not taken 70 years ago, but this week at the Lincolnshire Aviation Heritage Centre – the former Lancaster bomber base at RAF East Kirkby.Admirers of the war-time planes stepped back in time to relive the [...]
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