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The Fifth Raid: 3/4 September
2023-12-13 19:52:00 UTC‘BERLIN BOMBED AGAIN Power stations and armament works attacked’ – The Times, September 5, 1940 –
Photo: © IWM (CH 15644) With the arrival of the new month of September a new phase in the air war was about to begin between Berlin and London. The invasion menace…
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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,…