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A 30-page pamphlet with photos and text from the 1941 propaganda film "Target for To-Night". A 30-page brochure entitled The Book of the famous film Target for To-Night and sub-titled The Record in Text and Pictures of a Bombing Raid on Germany was released in 1941. It covered various scenes from the film along with photographic stills and was ...
Delivery After Raid (1940). Delivery After Raid, also popularly known as The London Milkman, is a black and white photograph taken by Fred Morley on 9 October 1940. [1] The image shows a milkman making his delivery along a street with buildings destroyed by German bombers during The Blitz in Holborn, Central London.
Shortly after takeoff from Vnukovo, a Tu-104 suffered an explosion that damaged the left side of the fuselage. The aircraft lost control, broke-up and crashed, killing all on board. A bomb had been placed on the floor inside the cabin between the cabin wall and a seat near fuselage frame 45. [16] 25 20 November 1971 China Airlines Flight 825
In February 2023 it was stated that the order for three aircraft could gradually increase to five. [18] [2] Reconnaissance / Maritime Patrol; Beechcraft Shadow R.1: United States: Propeller: ISTAR: 2009: 6: 8 [19] [2] Expected OSD 2030. [20] A further two aircraft are to be added by 2025 along with an upgrade to the current aircraft. [21 ...
On 21 February 1970 HB-ICD [3] a Convair CV-990 Coronado jet named "Baselland" was flying on the route with 38 passengers and nine crew members. A bomb detonated in the aft cargo compartment of the aircraft about nine minutes after take-off during the ascent on a southerly course at approximately 12:15 UTC in the area of Lucerne north of the St. Gotthard Pass.
Gradually British air defenses improved and the Germans also introduced large bomber aircraft for bombing Britain. In 1917 and 1918 there were only eleven Zeppelin raids against England, and the final raid occurred on 5 August 1918, which resulted in the death of KK Peter Strasser , commander of the German Naval Airship Department.
The Short S.25 Sunderland is a British flying boat patrol bomber, developed and constructed by Short Brothers for the Royal Air Force (RAF). The aircraft took its service name from the town (latterly, city) and port of Sunderland in North East England.
Operation Oyster was a bombing raid made by the Royal Air Force (RAF) on 6 December 1942 upon the Philips works at Eindhoven, Netherlands.The Philips company was a major producer of electronics equipment, including vacuum tubes for radio communication.