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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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Feuer!
2018-04-23 19:53:04 UTCFire, as Bomber Command well knew, was the biggest destroyer of property
On 23 September 1941, Britain’s Air Staff produced a report detailing the effectiveness of German incendiary attacks on Britain and recommending that fire be a central feature of Bomber Command attacks. The key lesson to be…