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  2. Timeline of the Royal Air Force - Wikipedia

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    1943. 5 March – In an effort to decimate the German industrial base, Bomber Command begins bombing the Ruhr region. 25 March – Transport Command is formed by redesignating Ferry Command. 16 May – Aircraft of 617 Squadron set out on Operation Chastise, commonly known as the Dambusters Raid.

  3. History of the Royal Air Force - Wikipedia

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    The history of the Royal Air Force, the air forceof the United Kingdom, spans a century of British military aviation. The RAF was founded on 1 April 1918, towards the end of the First World Warby merging the Royal Flying Corpsand the Royal Naval Air Service. After the war, the RAF was greatly reduced in size and during the inter-war years was ...

  4. Bombing of Dresden - Wikipedia

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    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 high-explosive bombs and incendiary devices on the city. [3]

  5. List of air operations during the Battle of Europe - Wikipedia

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    5/6 March: The first raid of the Battle of the Ruhr [2] flew RAF Bomber Command's 100,000th sortie of World War II, with 160 acres destroyed and 53 Krupps buildings bombed at Essen. 13 April: The Eighth Air Force's largest mission to date (115 B-17s) destroys half of the Focke-Wulf factory buildings in Bremen

  6. Timeline of World War II (1944) - Wikipedia

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    February 1944. 1st. 15th. 1: U.S. Marines mop up on Roi and Namur in the northern part of the Kwajalein atoll in the Marshall Islands. 2: The Narva front near the east border of Estonia is formed between the Soviet and German forces. : Germans defeat American troops in the Battle of Cisterna near Anzio. [ 2]

  7. List of aircraft of the United Kingdom in World War II ...

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    Bristol Blenheim (RAF) long range fighter and night fighter. Curtiss Mohawk (RAF) Curtiss Kittyhawk and Tomahawk (RAF) de Havilland Mosquito (RAF) night fighter & fighter-bomber. de Havilland Vampire (RAF) prototype jet fighter. Douglas Havoc (RAF) night fighter. Fairey Fulmar (FAA) fleet fighter. Fairey Firefly (FAA) fleet fighter.

  8. Timeline of World War II (1939) - Wikipedia

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    Bibliography. v. t. e. This is a timeline of events of World War II in 1939 from the start of the war on 1 September 1939. For events preceding September 1, 1939, see the timeline of events preceding World War II . Germany 's invasion of Poland on 1 September 1939 brought many countries into the war. This event, and the declaration of war by ...

  9. No. 159 Squadron RAF - Wikipedia

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    No. 159 Squadron was reformed at RAF Molesworth on 2 July 1942 during the Second World War and its ground crew personnel were posted, without aircraft, to the Middle East on 12 February 1942 and then to India on 18 May 1942. Flying Consolidated Liberators, the squadron was posted to Palestine in July 1942 and carried out bombing raids in North ...