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  1. Bomb shelter in Prague

    2023-03-09 13:37:42 UTC

    ‘We were impressed by the absence of flak on the bomb run.’ – Howard Pinner, Pilot, 603rd Bomb Squadron, USAAF – Photo: praguemorning.cz During our recent trip to Prague last week we had the opportunity to visit a very interesting air-raid shelter, part of a guided tour itinerary about…

  2. The last visit by a Mosquito

    2020-04-23 19:48:00 UTC

    [Photo: © raf-pathfinders.com.] [An unidentified air- and groundcrew of RAF No 627 Squadron posing for the camera in front of a Mosquito wooden bomber in Britain. Note the mission bomb log painted on the nose of the aircraft.] This week marks the 75th anniversary of the last strategic air raid…

  3. Ruined Berlin in Valery Faminsky’s eyes (II)

    2019-02-24 18:50:05 UTC

    Second part of the pictures taken by Soviet war photographer Valery Faminsky (1914–1993) during the Fall of Nazi Berlin in May 1945. [Major S L Rogatchevsky, a Soviet medical officer, poses next to a propaganda slogan painted on a wall by SS members during the battle that reads: ‘Berlin stays…

  4. Ruined Berlin in Valery Faminsky’s eyes

    2019-02-17 15:01:00 UTC

    These pictures were taken by Soviet war photographer Valery Faminsky (1914–1993) during the Fall of Nazi Berlin in May 1945. This archive was discovered recently in Moscow. He photographed the Red Army’s combat from Ukraine to Berlin. Photographer Arthur Bondar heard that the family of Faminsky was selling the album…

  5. Bombensturm! (Part IV)

    2019-02-05 20:18:00 UTC

    HC Bombs [RAF ground crew push a 4,000-lb blast-bomb towards the bomb-bay of a Vickers Wellington of No 75 (NZ) Squadron at RAF Feltwell in May, 1942.] Photo: Imperial War Museums © IWM (TR 11). The strategic method to destroy German cities employed by Bomber Command in area bombings was…

  6. The defences – Air detection (II)

    2017-05-29 11:32:07 UTC

    RADAR was the acronym for Radio Detection And Ranging, with the first sets being tested by British and Germans at the same time during the early years of the 1900s Its combat debut was during Second World War. It was an invaluable air detection aid whenever bad weather, darkness…

  7. The defences – Air detection (I)

    2017-05-26 16:08:55 UTC

    The Nazis developed a complex net to defend the Reich and occupied Europe from air raids. This superb detection system relayed from observation of incoming attacks to the latest and more sophisticated elements of electronic radar and radio to track enemy planes and to assist the AA (anti-aircraft) guns in…

  8. Les Marins français Bombardaient Berlin

    2017-05-01 16:36:00 UTC

    7 June 1940 Actually, the first bombing raid over Berlin was a French affair. [Photo: AMMAC du Fumélois.] On Monday, June 3, 1940, the Germans launched “Operation Paula” with a Luftwaffe force of some three hundred bombers attacking Paris and causing several hundred civilian casualties. The French decided to…

  9. Berlin LuftTerror

    2017-04-06 11:38:00 UTC

    The city of Berlin was bombed more than 360 times during Second World War (1939-1945). This personal blog tells the history of the German capital and its people before, during and after the Allied bombing campaign, and on the other hand, the war effort made by all those young…
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