Death by Moonlight: Bomber Command is an episode of the 1992 Canadian The Valour and the Horror television documentary miniseries, and was a co-production...
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directed by Brian McKenna. The series consisted of three two-hour films: Savage Christmas: Hong Kong 1941, Death by Moonlight: Bomber Command and In Desperate...
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withdrawn from all Bomber Command aircraft. An AN/APS-13 was used as a radar altimeter during the Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki by the 509th Composite...
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night of 16/17 May 1943 by 617 Squadron RAF Bomber Command, later called the Dam Busters, using special "bouncing bombs" developed by Barnes Wallis. The Möhne...
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latter role, she was nominated for a 1996 Gemini Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Dramatic Series. Mortil lived in Montreal...
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semi-autobiographical comedy about growing up gay in Oshawa, Ontario, was also optioned by Sandra Faire's SFA Productions for production as a film, which won an award...
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Fascism Kingdom of Italy (and Fascist Italy) and Italian Social Republic Death camps, Nazi concentration camps, earlier concentration camps Partition and...
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Target - Berlin (category Films scored by Louis Applebaum)
made by working people in different stations of work." Scenes from Target - Berlin later appeared in Brian McKenna's Death by Moonlight: Bomber Command (1991)...
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Wakenitz and the Bay of Lübeck were reflecting the moonlight. 234 Wellington and Stirling bombers dropped about 400 tons of bombs including 25,000 incendiary...
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Coventry Blitz (redirect from Operation Moonlight Sonata)
reorganise and evacuate civilians.: 120 As Arthur Harris, commander of RAF Bomber Command, wrote after the war "Coventry was adequately concentrated in point...
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available to film libraries operated by university and provincial authorities. Death by Moonlight: Bomber Command (1992) List of Allied propaganda films...
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The Glenn Miller Story (category Films directed by Anthony Mann)
successful big band and the establishment of the "Miller Sound" as typified by "Moonlight Serenade". Also depicted is Miller's international success touring his...
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Bombing of Dresden (category World War II strategic bombing by populated place)
priority". Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur Harris, AOC-in-C Bomber Command, nicknamed "Bomber Harris", was known as an ardent supporter of area bombing;...
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Short Stirling (redirect from Stirling bomber)
Campbell, Ralph (1995). We Flew by Moonlight. Orillia, Ontario: Kerry Hill Publications. p. 71. ISBN 0-9680257-0-6. "'WW2 bomber's remains' found in North Sea"...
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Edward Addison (category 1987 deaths)
Addison (by now promoted to air commodore and later to air vice-marshal) to operate radio-countermeasures as part of RAF Bomber Command. By the end of...
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Percy Pickard (category British World War II bomber pilots)
the squadron of Whitley bombers that carried paratroopers to their drop for the Bruneval raid. Through most of 1943 he commanded 161 Squadron, the secretive...
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interceptions of RAF night bombers over the North Sea. The nighttime skies over Germany usually had some light from either moonlight or even from city lights...
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1943 in aviation (category Aviation by year)
Hellcats; he has seven victories at the time of his death. Bomber Command dispatches 450 bombers to attack Berlin; they scatter their bombs, but add to...
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1944 in aviation (category Aviation by year)
then-Lt. Gen Jimmy Doolittle, takes command of the US Eighth Air Force. January 7 – 502 Eighth Air Force bombers escorted by 571 fighters bomb the IG Farben...
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Killing of Osama bin Laden (redirect from Death of Osama Bin Laden)
mission was part of an effort led by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), with the Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC) coordinating the Special Mission...
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1942 in aviation (category Aviation by year)
latter. January 31 – During the winter of 1941–1942, Royal Air Force Bomber Command experiences a 2.5 percent loss rate among its aircraft attacking Germany...
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Les Munro (category New Zealand World War II bomber pilots)
to squadron leader on 14 February 1944 and was posted to command 1690 BDTF Squadron (Bomber Defence Training Flight) on 13 July 1944. His logbook shows...
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Henry H. Arnold (category United States Army Command and General Staff College alumni)
since no other land-based bomber was capable of reaching the Japanese homeland, but by February 1944, the XX Bomber Command, slated to begin Operation...
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Daniel V. Gallery (category 1977 deaths)
night, aircraft from the task group caught U-68 on the surface, in broad moonlight, and sank her with one survivor, a lookout caught on-deck when the U-boat...
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Bud Mahurin (category Korean War prisoners of war held by PRC)
P-47 was heavily damaged by a German Dornier Do 217 bomber he helped shoot down, forcing him to bail out. He was picked up by French Resistance forces...
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Dirk Bogarde (category 1999 deaths)
France, Holland and Germany for the Second Tactical Air Force and RAF Bomber Command. Villages on key routes were heavily bombed to prevent the Wehrmacht's...
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1941 in aviation (category Aviation by year)
(overnight) – RAF Bomber Command mounts four major raids on Hamburg, Germany, over the course of six nights, averaging 128 bombers per raid. The second...
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Bombardment of Mailly-le-Camp (category Aerial operations and battles of World War II by populated place)
"softening up" campaign Bomber Command conducted prior to the D-Day invasion. The operation was assigned to No. 5 Group, which was joined by No. 1 Group. Estimated...
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Bert Glennon (category 1967 deaths)
Awards in Best Cinematography for the films Stagecoach (1939) and Dive Bomber (1941). He worked as a cinematographer on over 100 films for directors that...
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then struck off by the General Medical Council for "hastening" the deaths of 18 people. He later confessed to "bringing forward" the deaths of two of these...
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