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The Bomber Command and USAAF Bombing of Dresden, 13-15th February 1945

6th May 2021 Blown Periphery 3496 Comments

Pre-Op Test Flights and Briefings On the morning of 13th February it was cold with rain in the Lincolnshire Wolds, after an extremely cold January with a mean temperature of -2 degrees Celsius. By the [more…]

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The Bomber Command and USAAF Bombing of Dresden, 13-15th February 1945, Part Two

15th October 2020 Blown Periphery 2488 Comments

The City of Dresden in 1945 A rather strange myth had grown over the city of Dresden since the mid-1940s. That is was a benevolent municipality, untouched by the horrors of the war raging around, [more…]

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The Bomber Command and USAAF Bombing of Dresden, 13-15th February 1945, Part One

29th September 2020 Blown Periphery 4544 Comments

When he became Air Officer Commanding (AOC) of Bomber Command and at the start of the bombing campaign, Harris said, quoting the Old Testament: The Nazis entered this war under the rather childish delusion that [more…]

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