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27 January: The first World War II US mission flown against the German homeland bombs Kriegsmarine submarine pens in Wilhelmshaven. [27]: 107 5/6 March: The first raid of the Battle of the Ruhr [2] flew RAF Bomber Command's 100,000th sortie of World War II, with 160 acres destroyed and 53 Krupps buildings bombed at Essen.
No. 222 Group was a group of the Royal Air Force during the Second World War.Formed on 1 September 1941, based at Ceylon.Squadrons were stationed around the Indian Ocean.The group undertook long-range bombing and mine-laying operations that took them as far afield as Sumatra and Singapore.
3 September – Following the UK's declaration of war on Germany, the RAF conducts photographic reconnaissance of the German naval base at Wilhelmshaven. 29 November – RAuxAF spitfires shoot down an He 111 bomber over Lothian, the first German aircraft to be shot down over the UK in World War II. Women's Auxiliary Air Force (WAAF) instituted ...
25 August: British and Soviet troops invade Iran to save the Abadan oilfields and the important railways and routes to the Soviet Union for the supply of war material. 27 August: German U-boat U-570 , being forced to surface off Iceland is captured by the British Royal Navy and is later put into combat service as HMS Graph .
After victory in World War II, the RAF was to be further re-organized, as technological advances in air warfare saw the arrival of jet fighters and bombers. The first significant Cold War action of the RAF was its support to the Berlin Airlift in 1948 and 1949 which was originally designated Operation Knicker and Operation Carter-Paterson and ...
Royal Air Force stations of World War II (7 C, 2 P) Pages in category "History of the Royal Air Force during World War II" The following 45 pages are in this category, out of 45 total.
Upon the entry of the United States into WW2, a number of Royal Air Force Class A bases were transferred to the U.S. Eighth Air Force for use as heavy bomber bases, with the RAF units formerly occupying them being redeployed to other RAF bomber airfields, and U.S. Army Engineer Units constructed more airfields to this standard, or brought ...
This is a list of known World War II era codenames for military operations and missions commonly associated with World War II. As of 2022 this is not a comprehensive list, but most major operations that Axis and Allied combatants engaged in are included, and also operations that involved neutral nation states.