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A photograph taken in April 1945 of the German city of Cologne, devastated by repeated Allied bombing raids during the Second World War (1939-45). Starting with the thousand-bomber raid on Cologne in 1942, the city became a repeated target...

A wartime photograph of an Avro Lancaster bomber dropping its bombload during the Second World War (1939-45).

A Boeing B-29 Superfortress in flight. The B-29 long-distance bomber was in active service with the United States Air Force from April 1944.

A photograph showing the destruction after the bomber raid on Dresden in 1945 by the RAF and USAAF during the Second World War (1939-45). (Deutsche Fotothek)

A Royal Air Force Lancaster bomber about to take off to bomb Duisburg during the battle of the Ruhr (March-July 1943) in the Second World War (1939-45). (Imperial War Museums, London)

A c. 1942 photograph of a Vickers Wellington Mk II heavy bomber, used by the Royal Air Force in the Second World War (1939-45).

A photograph of an Avro Lancaster bomber loaded with a 'bouncing bomb' used on the 'Dam Buster' raid. Also known as Operation Chastise, the raid of May 1943 aimed to destroy several Ruhr Valley dams. (National Archives, London)

The Deutsches Afrika Korps (DAK) was an elite German armoured unit that fought in North Africa during the Second World War (1939-45). The Korps was initially led by Erwin Rommel (1891-1944) before he was promoted to lead a larger force of...

The London Blitz was the sustained bombing of Britain's capital by the German and Italian air forces from September 1940 to May 1941 during the Second World War (1939-45). The objective was to bomb Britain into submission, but despite almost...

Britain's integrated air defence system in the Second World War (1939-45), known as the Dowding System after the air chief marshal of that name, included code-breakers, radar stations, observers, searchlights, barrage balloons, anti-aircraft...