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Mieczysław Adamek. Les Adams (rugby league) Jack Agazarian. Noel Agazarian. Napier Sturt, 3rd Baron Alington. Geoffrey Allard. Charles Allberry. John Allen (RAF officer) Michael Anderson (cricketer, born 1916)
The Royal Air Force Bomber Command Memorial is a memorial in Green Park, London, commemorating the crews of RAF Bomber Command who embarked on missions during the Second World War. [1] The memorial, on the south side of Piccadilly, facing Hyde Park Corner, was built to mark the sacrifice of 55,573 aircrew from Britain, Canada, Australia, New ...
Dedicated to the Spirit of Cooperation Between the U.K. and the U.S. in Memory of British Cadets Killed in These Mountains February 20, 1943. The AT6 Monument is a granite memorial to Royal Air Force cadets who were killed while on a training flight during World War II. It stands on Big Mountain, north of Moyers, Oklahoma, in the United States ...
1944–1945. Strategic campaigns. The Battle of Britain (‹See Tfd› German: Luftschlacht um England, "air battle for England") was a military campaign of the Second World War, in which the Royal Air Force (RAF) and the Fleet Air Arm (FAA) of the Royal Navy defended the United Kingdom (UK) against large-scale attacks by Nazi Germany 's air ...
RAF Bomber Command controlled the Royal Air Force 's bomber forces from 1936 to 1968. Along with the United States Army Air Forces, it played the central role in the strategic bombing of Germany in World War II. From 1942 onward, the British bombing campaign against Germany became less restrictive and increasingly targeted industrial sites and ...
Up to 104 aircraft shot down. Up to 40,000 people killed. The Allied bombing of Hamburg during World War II included numerous attacks on civilians and civic infrastructure. As a large city and industrial centre, Hamburg 's shipyards, U-boat pens, and the Hamburg-Harburg area oil refineries were attacked throughout the war.
Roger Bushell. Squadron Leader Roger Joyce Bushell (30 August 1910 – 29 March 1944) was a South African in the British Royal Air Force aviator. He masterminded the famous "Great Escape" from Stalag Luft III in March 1944, but was one of the 50 escapees to be recaptured and subsequently shot and murdered by the Nazi German Gestapo secret police.
Marshal of the Royal Air Force Sir Arthur Travers Harris, 1st Baronet, GCB, OBE, AFC (13 April 1892 – 5 April 1984), commonly known as "Bomber" Harris by the press and often within the RAF as "Butch" Harris, [a] was Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief (AOC-in-C) RAF Bomber Command during the height of the Anglo-American strategic bombing campaign against Nazi Germany in the Second World War.