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Vor 4 Tagen · A ruined Cologne in 1945. The German city of Cologne was bombed in 262 separate air raids [1] by the Allies during World War II, all by the Royal Air Force (RAF). A total of 34,711 long tons of bombs were dropped on the city by the RAF. [2] 20,000 civilians died during the war in Cologne due to aerial bombardments. [3]
Vor 5 Tagen · Mai 1972 im Ulucanlar-Gefängnis in Ankara hingerichtet wurden, bekannten sie sich in ihren letzten Worten nochmals zu den Idealen des Marxismus-Leninismus. 52 Jahre später werden die drei in der Türkei immer noch als Helden verehrt, viele linke Parteien und Gruppen berufen sich auf Deniz Gezmiş und seinen Kampf. Die meisten türkischen sozialistischen und marxistischen Organisationen seit ...
Vor 5 Tagen · The airfield very much lives on in another aviation-related way thanks to the famous Lindholme Gear still carried aboard RAF aircraft and developed here during World War Two. This air-sea rescue device consists of five containers joined together by rope, the main one containing an inflatable dinghy and the others vital survival equipment. The ...
- South Yorkshire
- 1 June 1940-1985
- Asylum centre / Prison
Vor 5 Tagen · From the summer of 1944 the RAF’s No 5 (Pilots) Advanced Flying Unit from Tern Hill had been using Atcham as a Relief Landing Ground. A detachment from No 577 Squadron, an anti-aircraft co-operation unit, also used Atcham for a period of time but the airfield closed to flying in April 1946 and completely six months later. The site was returned to agriculture by the 1950s, after a period of ...
- Shropshire
- Disused
- Industry / Open land / Public road
- 20 August 1941-22 October 1946
Vor 3 Tagen · 1,972 The Hawker Hunter is a transonic British jet-powered fighter aircraft that was developed by Hawker Aircraft for the Royal Air Force (RAF) during the late 1940s and early 1950s. It was designed to take advantage of the newly developed Rolls-Royce Avon turbojet engine and the swept wing , and was the first jet-powered aircraft produced by Hawker to be procured by the RAF.
Vor 5 Tagen · Flyers and their traumas: the RAF in the Second World War. London, Penguin, 2008, ISBN: 9780140123081; 256pp.; Price: £8.99. London, Reaktion Books, 1999, ISBN: 9781861890351; 336pp.; Price: £14.95. One would naturally expect the two books under review, one a history published by an academic press and the other a novel, to be very different ...
Vor 4 Tagen · Sealand (North & South) (Shotwick) One of Wales’ oldest and longest serving airfields also had surely one of the most convoluted histories of any airfields in Britain, all due to its layout and an enforced change of name. Sealand was originally known as Shotwick and owed its venerable RAF career to a civil training airfield, which opened in 1916.
