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'I would have destroyed Dresden again': Bomber Harris was unrepentant over German city raids 30 years after the end of World War Two
Former marshal of the Royal Air Force, Sir Arthur 'Bomber' Harris, gave the green light for the 1945 bombing which reduced the city in Saxony, Germany, to rubble. The attack was widely criticised ...
Daily Mail4y
Canadian author Malcolm Gladwell doubles down on claim that Bomber Harris was a 'psychopath' after WWII hero's grandson brands writer an 'armchair air marshal'
The directive when I took over was that I wasn't to specifically aim at anything unless ordered to do so and to blast the German cities as a whole.' Born in Cheltenham in 1892, Sir Arthur Harris ...
The Daily Telegraph15y
Bomber Harris thought the Dambusters' attacks on Germany 'achieved nothing'
Sir Arthur "Bomber" Harris, the wartime head of Bomber Command, privately dismissed the Dambuster air raids on German dams were a waste of men and aircraft, it has been revealed. It has now ...
BBC12y
Bomber Harris defends WWII bomber command in rare film
Arthur Harris led RAF Bomber Command in World War II, earning him the nickname 'Bomber Harris'. The British policy of 'area' bombing German cities including Cologne and Dresden made him a hugely ...