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The term "thousand-bomber raid" was used to describe three night bombing raids by the Royal Air Force against German cities in summer 1942 during World War II. [1]The term was a propaganda device, whereby Arthur Harris reached the number of bombers by including not only bombers that were currently operational as part of RAF Bomber Command, but also aircrews from Operational Training Units to ...
The first ever thousand-bomber raid by the RAF was conducted on Cologne during the night of 30–31 May 1942. Codenamed Operation Millennium, the massive raid was launched for two primary reasons: It was expected that the devastation from such raids might be enough to knock Germany out of the war or at least severely damage German morale. [5]
Although claimed to be derived from Ralph Barker's The Thousand Plane Raid (also published as The Thousand Plan: the Story of the First Thousand Bomber Raids on Cologne), the storyline of the film inaccurately portrays the first raid as an 8th Air Force mission while the actual attack was undertaken by 1,047 Royal Air Force bombers against the ...
On 30 May 1942, the RAF Bomber Command launched the first "1,000 bomber raid" when 1,046 aircraft bombed Cologne in Operation Millennium, dropping over 2,000 tons of high explosive and incendiaries on the medieval town and burning it from end to end. [54] [55] 411 civilians and 85 combatants were killed, more than 130,000 had to leave the city ...
Extracts taken from the book The Thousand Plan: The Story of the First Thousand Bomber Raid on Cologne by Ralph Barker [3] Almost every pilot at Croft had converted on to Halifaxes under a Squadron Leader named Peter James, the man who was working overtime to get everyone fit for the raid. James was 6 feet 21/2 inches tall, with very long legs ...
The first use of the bomber stream was the first 1,000 bomber raid against Cologne on the night of 30/31 May 1942. [3] This tactic was extremely effective, leading to fighting between Kammhuber and Erhard Milch, his boss. A Lancaster within the bomber stream dropping window – the crescent-shaped white cloud on the left of the picture
At 6:51 a.m. on Friday, November 9, the U.S. Air Force's advanced new flying-wing B-21 Raider stealth bomber lifted off the ground for the first time. B-21 RAIDER FIRST FLIGHT 11-10-23 #RAIDER33 # ...
In Operation Millennium Harris launched the first RAF "thousand bomber raid" against Cologne (Köln) on the night of 30/31 May 1942. This operation included the first use of a bomber stream, which was a tactical innovation designed to overwhelm the German night-fighters of the Kammhuber Line. [44]