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Women's Auxiliary Air Force officers (48 P) Pages in category "Royal Air Force personnel of World War II" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 1,418 total.
1958: Handley Page Victor. 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 ...
The bombing of Dresden was a joint British and American aerial bombing attack on the city of Dresden, the capital of the German state of Saxony, during World War II. In four raids between 13 and 15 February 1945, 772 heavy bombers of the Royal Air Force (RAF) and 527 of the United States Army Air Forces (USAAF) dropped more than 3,900 tons of ...
The aircrews of RAF Bomber Command during World War II operated a fleet of bomber aircraft carried strategic bombing operations from September 1939 to May 1945, on behalf of the Allied powers. The crews were men from the United Kingdom, other Commonwealth countries, and occupied Europe, especially Poland, France, Czechoslovakia and Norway, as ...
Operation Carthage, on 21 March 1945, was a British air raid on Copenhagen, Denmark during the Second World War which caused significant collateral damage. The target of the raid was the Shellhus, used as Gestapo headquarters in the city centre. It was used for the storage of dossiers and the torture of Danish citizens during interrogations.
Royal Air Force (RAF) Bomber Command: Firestorm. See: Bombing of Duisburg in World War II. Ulm: Germany: 17 December 1944 707 [18] Royal Air Force (RAF) Bomber Command: Firestorm. [18] See: Bombing of Ulm in World War II. Dresden: Germany: 13–15 February 1945 25,000 [19] Royal Air Force (RAF) Bomber Command and the United States Army Air ...
British military personnel killed in World War II. British military personnel killed in action in the Second World War (1939-1945). Pages in this category should be moved to subcategories where applicable. This category may require frequent maintenance to avoid becoming too large. It should directly contain very few, if any, pages and should ...