Let us remember this date in 1944 – with 17 months of WW2 still to go – when RAF Bomber Command suffered its worst attrition rate in its campaign to batter Nazi Berlin. 77 British aircraft were lost that evening. Too many books, films and documentaries fail to provide the bigger picture of what was happening each year of the war. I have tried to remedy this with ‘Of sons and skies’.
By: papajuliet - 24th March 2018 at 12:25
The “night of the big winds” An uncle, piloting a 44 sqd. Lanc, was lost on this raid. Shot down by flak near Dusseldorf on the return trip, having strayed over the Ruhr defences because of the unexpected wind strength. He had done about 14 ops, so far as I’ve been able to find out, so it was what you might call an experienced crew for that particular period.
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March 24, 2018 at 11:01 am