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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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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