As we approach the 80th Anniversary of VE Day and VJ Day, days that were celebration for the public at the end of the European and Asian phases of the war. It will be hard not to be swept up in the parades and the pageantry of the events in London and around the globe,ContinueContinue reading “Victory at a Cost”
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Home Defence of the North East – Part 1 – Air Defence
London is the often focus of air defence of the United Kingdom, but this was only one part of the air defence of the United Kingdom in the Second World War. Raids by naval ships and zeppelins and eventually aircraft highlighted the danger that raids could pose to the United Kingdom. The pre-war thinking ofContinueContinue reading “Home Defence of the North East – Part 1 – Air Defence”
The Butt Report – The Technological Response
In the early part of the Second World War, Royal Air Force Bomber Command were attacking targets in Germany by day. These raids were not as successful as the pre-war theorists had expected and the losses were unsustainable, which resulted in a change from majority daylight raids to majority nighttime raids.[1] These nighttime raids wereContinueContinue reading “The Butt Report – The Technological Response “
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