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World War II British bombers. This is a category for British bomber aircraft that were active during World War II.
The Avro Lancaster, commonly known as the Lancaster Bomber, is a British Second World War heavy bomber.It was designed and manufactured by Avro as a contemporary of the Handley Page Halifax, both bombers having been developed to the same specification, as well as the Short Stirling, all three aircraft being four-engined heavy bombers adopted by the Royal Air Force (RAF) during the same era.
Bristol Blenheim (RAF) long range fighter and night fighter. Curtiss Mohawk (RAF) Curtiss Kittyhawk and Tomahawk (RAF) de Havilland Mosquito (RAF) night fighter & fighter-bomber. de Havilland Vampire (RAF) prototype jet fighter. Douglas Havoc (RAF) night fighter. Fairey Fulmar (FAA) fleet fighter. Fairey Firefly (FAA) fleet fighter.
The Short Stirlingwas a British four-engined heavy bomberof the Second World War. It has the distinction of being the first four-engined bomber to be introduced into service with the Royal Air Force(RAF) during the war (the earlier Handley Page V/1500being a WWI design that served during the 1920s). The Stirling was designed during the late ...
The aircrews of RAF Bomber Command during World War II operated a fleet of bomber aircraft carried strategic bombing operations from September 1939 to May 1945, on behalf of the Allied powers. The crews were men from the United Kingdom, other Commonwealth countries, and occupied Europe, especially Poland, France, Czechoslovakia and Norway, as ...
The Armstrong Whitworth A.W.38 Whitley was a British medium bomber aircraft of the 1930s. It was one of three twin-engined, front line medium bomber types that were in service with the Royal Air Force (RAF) at the outbreak of the Second World War. Alongside the Vickers Wellington and the Handley Page Hampden, the Whitley was developed during ...
First flight. 25 July 1939. Retired. 1942. Developed into. Avro Lancaster. The Avro 679 Manchester was a British twin-engine heavy bomber developed and manufactured by the Avro aircraft company in the United Kingdom. While not being built in great numbers, it was the forerunner of the more famed and more successful four-engined Avro Lancaster ...
Developed into. Avro Atlantic (proposed) Vulcans in anti-flash white in 1957. The Avro Vulcan (later Hawker Siddeley Vulcan[ 1 ] from July 1963) [ 2 ] is a jet-powered, tailless, delta-wing, high-altitude, strategic bomber, which was operated by the Royal Air Force (RAF) from 1956 until 1984.