4 июн. 2020 г. · The Doolittle Raid, also known as the Tokyo Raid, was an air raid on 18 April 1942 by the United States on the Japanese capital Tokyo and other ...

12 авг. 2020 г. · In the Pacific theater, the largest bombing raid was on August 14, 1945, where a 1014 B-29 raid hit multiple targets on the Japanese mainland.

7 апр. 2024 г. · 16th/17th of May 1943. Operation Chastise carried out by 617 Squadron, R.A.F. Bomber Command with 19 Avro Lancaster bombers raiding the Ruhr ...

7 февр. 2021 г. · The largest single mission raid of the war on any front was on February 3, 1945, when nearly the entire USAAF 8th AF carried out a daylight raid on Berlin.

11 февр. 2024 г. · The famous raid conducted on August 1, 1943, by the USAAF was the low-level bombing of the Ploesti oil facilities by B-24 bombers of the US 8th and 9th Air ...

27 окт. 2021 г. · 75 years ago this month the 8th Air Force in England undertook mission number 115, over Schweinfurt, Germany. Mission 115 was supposed to ...

27 дек. 2020 г. · Britain's De Havilland Mosquito B Mk IX (LR503, 'F for Freddie') survived 213 missions —the most combat operations flown by a bomber in war ever ...

1 июл. 2016 г. · The B-29's logged more than 17 hours of flight to destroy the Japan's largest remaining oil reserves at the oil refinery of Akita. Cheers rang ...

12 нояб. 2019 г. · The Junkers Ju86 dropped its bombs from heights ranging between 42,000ft and 47,000ft over southern England. The bomb load was modest (typically ...

19 янв. 2024 г. · General Castle on Dec. 26, 1944 led over 2000 heavy bombers over Germany. Unfortunately Gen. Castle's plane was hit and in saving a crew member ...