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British third raid on Berlin
2022-04-03 14:56:00 UTC‘Two nights later we returned to Berlin… …to be met by numerous searchlights and well directed and intensive flak. The raids must have destroyed the myth of German invincibility, thus causing considerable anger to Hitler and Goering who had boasted that such raids would never happen.’ – Squadron Leader Andrew…
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The first one: August 25th, 1940
2019-05-01 17:50:00 UTC‘They had bombed London, whether on purpose or not, and the British people and London especially should know that we could hit back. It would be good for the morale of us all’. – Winston S Churchill –
Photo: © IWM (H-3514). The prelude: LondonDuring the early…
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The Whitley
2017-07-12 10:09:31 UTCThe Armstrong Whitworth Whitley was one of the three ‘strategic’ bombers 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 on Germany airspace. With a crew of five…