The RAF raid on La Caine (1944) was an attack on 10 June 1944 by aircraft of the Royal Air Force against the headquarters of Panzergruppe West during...

September, RAF Bomber Command night raids disrupted the German preparation of converted barges, and the Luftwaffe's failure to overwhelm the RAF forced Hitler...

Schweppenburg), was killed during the raid by the Royal Air Force (RAF) attack on La Caine, the Panzergruppe HQ, on 10 June 1944. Citations Patzwall 2001, p. 79...

ISBN 978-1-4582-0197-3. "December 31, 1944: Hungary Declared War on Germany". History. A&E Networks. Retrieved March 1, 2016. "Oslo Tragedy as RAF Mosquitos Attack Gestapo...

Squadron RAF and No. 247 (China-British) Squadron RAF. On 10 June 1944 the wing took part in the Attack on Panzer Group West's headquarters at La Caine. Prior...

attack on the ball bearing factory at Schweinfurt, Germany. February 24–25 (overnight) – 734 British bombers make the first RAF Bomber Command raid on Schweinfurt...

not fully operational or only partially mobile in early June 1944. Alarmed by the raids on St Nazaire and Dieppe in 1942, Hitler ordered the construction...

D-Day Bombers, The Veteran's Story: RAF Bomber Command and the US Eighth Air Force Support to the Normandy Invasion, 1944. Grub Street, London. 2004. ISBN 1-904010-79-2...

landings were the landing operations and associated airborne operations on 6 June 1944 of the Allied invasion of Normandy in Operation Overlord during the...

weather in the winter of 1944 also failed (Battle of the Bulge, Operation Bodenplatte). On January 11, 1944, the Allied air raids began in direct connection...

this time, No. 140 Wing was operating out of RAF Thorney Island in West Sussex, where, on 14 July 1944, Embry personally briefed the 14 crews selected...

destroying the Merville artillery battery, was all but wiped out when an air-raid by RAF Avro Lancaster heavy bombers missed the artillery battery itself and...

Operation Lüttich (7–13 August 1944) was the codename of the Nazi German counter-attack during the Battle of Normandy, which occurred near U.S. positions...

known as 4th Special Air Service. On 7 June 1944, the 9 aircraft of 38 Group (including two from No. 297 Squadron RAF), dropped the parachutists. These...

night by Major General Matthew Ridgway's U.S. 82nd Airborne Division on June 6, 1944, part of the American airborne landings in Normandy during World War...

with effect from 1 February 1944 at RAF Acklington, Northumberland, and the latter with effect from 1 March 1944 at RAF Castle Camps, Cambridgeshire...

battery, Hauptmann Wolter, was killed during a Royal Air Force bombing raid on 19 May 1944. He was replaced by Oberleutnant Raimund Steiner, who commanded 50...

on 6 June 1944, during the Second World War. Gold, the central of the five areas, was located between Port-en-Bessin on the west and the Lieu-dit La Rivière...

part of the 82nd Airborne Division’s glider train in Normandy on the evening of 6 June 1944 as part of Operation Neptune, the assault phase of Operation...

parachute combat assault at night by the U.S. 101st Airborne Division on June 6, 1944, part of the American airborne landings in Normandy during World War...

the ruins of which were captured on 4 August, after two raids by strategic bombers of RAF Bomber Command. The British conduct of the Battle of Villers-Bocage...

or battle of the Falaise pocket (German: Kessel von Falaise; 12–21 August 1944) was the decisive engagement of the Battle of Normandy in the Second World...

footnote 14, in 'Sons of the Reich' states that the RAF attack on Schweppenburg's headquarters on 10 June only slightly wounded him, although his chief...

May 2014. Zetterling: data on German losses in Normandy RAF photograph of Sannerville and Banneville la Campagne after the morning raid of 18 July 1944...

by additional raids by medium bombers and fighter-bombers of the RAF and USAAF, which dropped an additional 2,796 tons of ordnance on the five landing...

of 1944–45. Armed resistance by islanders to the German occupation was nearly non-existent, though there were a number of British forces raids on the...

Normandy, made by elements of the 101st Airborne Division on the early morning of June 6, 1944 during the Normandy landings of World War II. It was part...

Normandy, made by elements of the U.S. 82nd Airborne Division on the early morning of June 6, 1944, during World War II. It was part of Operation Neptune, the...

Operation Overlord, from 8 to 9 August 1944. The intention was to break through the German defences south of Caen on the eastern flank of the Allied positions...

the cover plan for the Normandy landings. Titanic was carried out on 5–6 June 1944 (the night of the invasion) by the Royal Air Force and the Special...