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1. Bombensturm!

   2018-03-18 20:20:39 UTC

   When British Bomber Command went to war in 1939 it found itself equipped with a very limited and inadequate arsenal of bombs. General Purpose GP Bombs:The high explosive GP (general purpose) bombs, developed from 1935, were the initial arsenal that Bomber Command had to carry destruction to Third Reich’s…

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2. The Whitley

   2017-07-12 10:09:00 UTC

   The Armstrong Whitworth Whitley was one of the three ‘strategic’ bomber types with which Britain went to war in September 1939. The Whitley was conceived as a night ‘heavy’ bomber and was RAF’s first monoplane bomber and the first one to penetrate in German airspace.  [An in-flight view of Whitley…

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