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Razzles - Firing the Grunewald Forest
2023-06-26 09:02:00 UTC‘R.A.F. Fires German Forests’ – The New York Times, September 5, 1940 –
Photo: John Frost newspapers. In the late summer of 1940, while the Battle of Britain was raging overhead, Commander-in-Chief of RAF Bomber Command Air Marshal Charles Portal directed a new strategy to his squadrons. So,…
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Bombing raid on Berlin
2021-05-02 18:01:00 UTC‘Aircraft drawn from two R.A.F. squadrons made a special attack on an objective only four miles from the centre of Berlin early yesterday morning’. – Daily Herald, Friday, August, 30, 1940 –
Photo: © IWM CH 10246. As we have seen in previous posts, the first bombing on Berlin by…