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Operation Chastise - WWII's Dambuster Raid
Operation Chastise, the 'Dambusters' raid, was an attack by a squadron of RAF Lancaster bombers on the dams of the Ruhr basin in Germany in May 1943. Led by Squadron Leader Guy Gibson, the bombers breached...
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Manhattan Project - How the Atomic Bomb Was Built
The Manhattan Project was the code name for the secret US-led programme to develop an atomic bomb during the Second World War (1939-45). Hugely expensive and employing the best scientific minds from Europe...
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Bomb-Damaged House, WWI
An October 1915 photograph showing a civilian home in Croydon, London destroyed during a Zeppelin air raid during the First World War (1914-18).
Imperial War Museums
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Bomb-Damaged Train Factory, Essen
A photograph of the damage inflicted on the Essen Krupps AG locomotive factory by the Royal Air Force during the battle of the Ruhr (March-July 1943) during the Second World War (1939-45). (Imperial War Museums...
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Bomb-devastated Cologne
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...
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Why Were Hiroshima & Nagasaki Bombed in WWII?
The decision to drop the atomic bomb in August 1945 was taken to avoid further Allied casualties in the Pacific War by forcing Japan into an immediate surrender. Another reason was, as the victors jostled...
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Lancaster Bomber
The Avro 683 Lancaster bomber was a four-engine heavy bomber flown by the Royal Air Force and allies during the Second World War (1939-45). Lancasters were particularly used in nighttime bombing raids and could carry the heaviest...
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Boeing B-29 Superfortress
The Boeing B-29 Superfortress was a four-engined, long-range bomber of the United States Air Force. The largest of all Second World War (1939-45) bombers, B-29s were used to strike Japanese targets from the summer of 1944...
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Hiroshima after the Atomic Bomb Attack
The Japanese city of Hiroshima after being hit by an atomic bomb dropped from a US Air Force Boeing B-29 Superfortress on 6 August 1945. The bomb was dropped in order to end the Second World War (1939-45) as...
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Japanese Baka Bomb
A Japanese Baka bomb, a self-propelled rocket guided by a kamikaze pilot during the Second World War (1939-45). The Baka bomb was taken close to its target by a mother plane and then released.
Imperial War Museums, London.
