were daylight operations and the vast majority of these sorties were flown at night. After suffering heavy losses attempting daylight bombing raids over...
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Doolittle Raid in April 1942 and small-scale raids on military positions in the Kuril Islands from mid-1943. Strategic bombing raids began in June 1944 and...
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Polish Air Force French Air Force United Kingdom Royal Air Force Italian Regia Aeronautica Soviet Union Red Army Air Force Finnish Air Force Royal Canadian...
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Bombing of Berlin in World War II (redirect from 1943 Mosquito Raid Of Berlin)
States Army Air Forces' Eighth Air Force between 1943 and 1945, and the French Air Force in 1940 and between 1944 and 1945 as part of the Allied campaign...
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German daylight raid came on September 30; the Luftwaffe realized it was taking unacceptable losses and broke off the attack; occasional blitz raids hit...
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Strategic bombing during World War II (redirect from Allied air raid)
tactics by the Eighth Air Force, meant to secure daylight air supremacy for the Americans over Germany from the start of 1944 onwards — the Combined...
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Strategic bombing (redirect from Air raid defense)
were three raids in February 1944, which have been called The Great Raids Against Helsinki. The Finnish Air Force responded to the air raids with a series...
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daylight bombing part of the Combined Bomber Offensive against Germany. VIII Bomber Command was redesignated as Eighth Air Force on 22 February 1944....
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Siege of Malta (World War II) (redirect from Siege of Malta (1940))
Nazi Germany against the Royal Air Force (RAF) and the Royal Navy. The opening of a new front in North Africa in June 1940 increased Malta's already...
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Pathfinder (RAF) (redirect from Pathfinder Force)
large raids. The United States Army Air Forces operated a similar force within the Eighth Air Force for ‘blind-bombing’ through overcast on daylight missions...
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Battle of Britain (category 1940 in the United Kingdom)
"air battle for England") was a military campaign of the Second World War, in which the Royal Air Force (RAF) and the Fleet Air Arm (FAA) of the Royal...
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of Cologne was bombed in 262 separate air raids by the Allies during World War II, all by the Royal Air Force (RAF). A total of 34,711 long tons of bombs...
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RAF Bomber Command (redirect from Royal Air Force's Bomber Command)
Bomber Command controlled the Royal Air Force's bomber forces from 1936 to 1968. Along with the United States Army Air Forces, it played the central role...
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Lockheed Ventura (section Royal Air Force)
for the Lockheed Hudson bombers then in service with the Royal Air Force. Used in daylight attacks against occupied Europe, they proved to have weaknesses...
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bomber units conducted 11 air raids on Japanese-occupied Singapore between November 1944 and March 1945. Most of these raids targeted the island's naval...
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independent Air Force similar to the Royal Air Force which had already been established in the United Kingdom. Although other nations already had separate air forces...
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Bombing of Hamburg in World War II (redirect from Battle of Hamburg (air))
Polish Squadrons) and the USAAF Eighth Air Force. The British conducted night raids and the USAAF daylight raids. The initial attack on Hamburg included...
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by Allied aircraft in 42 bombing raids. On the night of 14/15 October 1944, the attack by No. 5 Group Royal Air Force (RAF) marked the high point of the...
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Avro Lancaster (section Royal Air Force)
operations, daylight raids were occasionally performed by the type as well. Occasionally, lone Lancasters would be dispatched to perform decoy raids on key...
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Defence of the Reich (section Daylight operations)
the air battles fought through May 1941 by the Luftwaffe on the Western Front were against the RAF's "Circus" raids and the occasional daylight raid into...
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Guy Gibson (category Royal Air Force personnel killed in World War II)
Bar, DFC & Bar (12 August 1918 – 19 September 1944) was a distinguished bomber pilot in the Royal Air Force during the Second World War. He was the first...
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air forces, principally the United States Army Air Forces (USAAF), the Soviet Air Forces (VVS), Soviet Naval Aviation (AVMF), and the Royal Air Force...
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of bombing operations flown by the German air fleets. In October 1940, 2,300 sorties were flown in daylight and 5,900 at night, reducing losses from 79...
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The Handley Page Halifax is a British Royal Air Force (RAF) four-engined heavy bomber of the Second World War. It was developed by Handley Page to the...
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North American P-51 Mustang (category Aircraft first flown in 1940)
from mid-1944) were used by the USAAF's Eighth Air Force to escort bombers in raids over Germany, while the RAF's Second Tactical Air Force and the USAAF's...
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it subjected the country to heavy air attacks in the Battle of Britain of 1940, which was won by the Royal Air Force. Nightly attacks of the Blitz continued...
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to be an effective night fighter, which came into service with the Royal Air Force (RAF) during the Battle of Britain, its large size allowing it to carry...
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Bombing of Dresden (redirect from Dresden air raids)
II. In four raids between 13 and 15 February 1945, 772 heavy bombers of the Royal Air Force (RAF) and 527 of the United States Army Air Forces (USAAF)...
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No. 2 Group RAF (category Royal Air Force groups)
No. 2 Group is a group of the Royal Air Force which was first activated in 1918, served from 1918–20, from 1936 through the Second World War to 1947,...
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Big Week (category February 1944 events)
Big Week, was a sequence of raids by the United States Army Air Forces and RAF Bomber Command from 20 to 25 February 1944, as part of the Combined Bomber...
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