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Britain’s first day of war: The RAF bombers that flew straight into death
On 4 September 1939, barely hours after Britain declared war on Germany, RAF bomber crews were sent on their first combat missions under strict political and strategic limits. Flying low over German ...
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Battle of Britain: RAF’s courage and Germany’s first defeat in 1940
From July to October 1940, the skies over Britain became the arena for a titanic struggle between the RAF and the Luftwaffe. German bombers and fighters attacked relentlessly, while Hurricanes and ...
The Blitz began on September 7, 1940. Virtually every night for the next eight months and five days, through May 11, 1941, Nazi Germany razed British cities from above, waging an aerial bombing ...
Alwyn Turner’s ‘witty and wide-ranging’ account of the interwar years ...
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