LOATHSOME vandals who this week desecrated the RAF Bomber Command monument in London shame ... Army from the beaches of Dunkirk in June 1940, until their return to the beaches of Normandy four ...

Harris himself, who became head of Bomber Command in February ... In December 1940, however, Britain lacked the planes and weaponry for the task. The RAF had neither a four-engined bomber, nor ...

The airfield was built between 1938 and 1940. In June of 1940 ... Overall, 226 Bomber Command aircraft were lost on operations flown from RAF Binbrook. In July 1945, after Nazi Germany had ...

RAF Bomber Command remained one of the few organisations ... For two intense weeks in early August 1940, the crews trained by practice bombing aqueducts in Lincolnshire at night until they ...

SURVIVORS of RAF Bomber Command yesterday stood shoulder to shoulder ... saved the bomber he was in – and its pilot – in 1940. A shell exploded in the Handley Page Hampden’s gaping bomb ...

Harry Irons used his brother's papers so he could sign up in 1940 aged 16 and went on to fly sixty operations. The International Bomber Command Centre ... he joined the RAF. He worked as a rear ...

Against this backdrop, there seems to be only one force who can take the fight to the heart of Hitler’s Third Reich – RAF Bomber Command. But results have been poor, and the cost has been high.

RAF Attack Synthetic oil plant in Ruhr A Halifax bomber of RAF Bomber command fly's over the synthetic plant during a daylight attack. The plant itself is obscured by smoke from many bomb blasts.

Tributes have been paid to a former Bomber Command rear ... so he could join the RAF during World War Two. Harry Irons used his brother's papers so he could sign up in 1940 aged 16 and went ...

Harry Irons used his brother's papers so he could sign up in 1940 aged 16 and went on to fly sixty operations. The International Bomber Command Centre ... he joined the RAF. He worked as a rear ...