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Bomber Command aircraft had not been designed for that kind of attack, and airframe fatigue increased. All Valiants were grounded in October 1964 and permanently withdrawn from service in January 1965. [60] Bomber Command's other main function was to provide tanker aircraft to the RAF. The Valiant was the first bomber used as a tanker ...
Bomber Command is an organisational military unit, generally subordinate to the air force of a country.The best known were in Britain and the United States.A Bomber Command is generally used for strategic bombing (although at times, e.g. during the Normandy Landings, may be used for tactical bombing), and is composed of bombers (i.e. planes used to bomb targets).
In a discussion of a report into high abort rates in bomber missions during World War II, which Robert McNamara suspected was because of pilot cowardice, McNamara described LeMay's character: One of the commanders was Curtis LeMay—Colonel in command of a B-24 group. He was the finest combat commander of any service I came across in war.
VIII Bomber Command Mission Number 75: -- On July 24, 1943, the 8th Bomber Command sent heavy bombers against multiple targets in Norway, the 100th Bomb Group being directed to bomb sub pens in Trondheim. Harry Crosby joined the Blakely crew as Navigator on this mission. This was a 1,900-mile mission and the longest to date, requiring over 12 ...
General (Honorary) Ira Clarence Eaker (April 13, 1896 [1] – August 6, 1987) was a general of the United States Army Air Forces during World War II.Eaker, as second-in-command of the prospective Eighth Air Force, was sent to England to form and organize its bomber command.
Saunders was succeeded by Major General Curtis LeMay on 29 August 1944. [19] He stayed on for several more weeks to assist LeMay before returning to the United States to assume command of another B-29 wing. On 18 September a B-25 Mitchell bomber he was flying in during an administrative flight disappeared. LeMay ordered a search, and the ...
No. 100 (Bomber Support) Group was a special duties group within RAF Bomber Command. The group was formed on 11 November 1943 to consolidate the increasingly complex business of electronic warfare and countermeasures in one organisation. The group was responsible for the development, operational trial and use of electronic warfare and ...
In August 1944, Major General Haywood S. Hansell, Jr was directed to take over command of the organization. [2] Serious planning for the movement of the XXI Bomber Command's B-29s from their Second Air Force training bases in Kansas to newly constructed combat airfields on Saipan, Tinian and Guam began in April 1944.