After leaving Winchester he joined the operational research section at RAF Bomber Command, where he remained for the rest of World War II.

At the British Bomber Command, Dyson and colleagues proposed ripping out two gun turrets from the RAF Lancaster bombers, to cut the catastrophic losses to German fighters in the Battle of Berlin.

* 1943 – World War II: The VIII Bomber Command dispatched ninety-one B-17s and B-24s to attack the U-Boat construction yards at Wilhemshafen, Germany.

Meanwhile, the Luftwaffe continued to defend German – occupied Europe against the growing offensive power of RAF Bomber Command and the United States Army Air Forces.

Inevitably, both the Bomber B and Amerika Bomber programs were victims of the continued emphasis of the Wehrmacht's insistence for the Luftwaffe to support the Army as its primary mission, as well as the increasingly devastating results of the RAF Bomber Command at night, and by 1943 the USAAF's Eighth and Fifteenth Air Forces ' heavy bomber raids by daylight on the German aviation industry, which catastrophically diminished the Third Reich's overall aviation production capacity later in World War II.

* Bomber Command War Diary Online

In total, 95 bombers are lost, making it the largest Bomber Command loss of World War II.

* 1942 – The Bombing of Lübeck in World War II is the first major success for the RAF Bomber Command against Germany and a German city.

** Strategic Air Command Bomber Response Time

The term V bomber was used for the Royal Air Force ( RAF ) aircraft during the 1950s and 1960s that comprised the United Kingdom's strategic nuclear strike force known officially as the V-force or Bomber Command Main Force.

RAF Bomber Command ended the Second World War with a policy of using heavy four-piston-engined bombers for massed raids and remained committed to this policy in the immediate post-war period.

Although often referred-to as part of the V-force, the Valiants were actually assigned to SACEUR as part of the TBF ( Tactical Bomber Force ), although remaining nominally part of Bomber Command.

RAF Bomber Command attrition attacks against air defense targets in Warsaw Pact and European Russia alone by the V-Force ( in prosecuting their initial attacks upon the Soviet Union ) would be decisive in ensuring that NATO and SAC follow-on forces attacks would be successful in achieving the destruction of Soviet and Warsaw Pact targets.

This “ one-two-punch ” by the UK ’ s RAF Bomber Command first ; and then, NATO / SAC second ; was the heart of the nuclear retaliatory attack strategy for the west in the early to mid-Cold War period.

A white paper produced by the Royal Air Force for the British government in 1961 claimed that the RAF's nuclear force was capable of destroying key Soviet cities such as Moscow and Kiev before bomber aircraft from the United States ' Strategic Air Command had entered Soviet airspace, " taking into account Bomber Command ’ s ability to be on target in the first wave several hours in advance of the main SAC force operating from bases in the United States .".

* April 25 – 26 – WWII: Last major strategic bombing raid by RAF Bomber Command, the destruction of the oil refinery at Tønsberg in southern Norway by 107 Avro Lancasters.

** Establishment of United States VIII Bomber Command, later to become the Eighth Air Force, in Savannah, Georgia.

A report from the British Bomber Command stated the military target was the railway marshalling yard Dresden-Friedrichstadt.

Less frequently, individual strategic attacks are made against ' point ' targets, such as Britain's RAF Bomber Command attacks against the Ruhr dams by means of the bouncing bomb designed by Barnes Wallis in May 1943.

The military press censor at SHAEF made a mistake and allowed the Cowan cable to go out starting with " Allied air bosses have made the long awaited decision to adopt deliberate terror bombing of great German population centres | date = September / October 1996 | url = http :// www. legionmagazine. com / en / index. php / 1996 / 09 / the-bomber-command-offensive / | title = The Bomber Command Offensive | publisher = originally published in the Legion Magazine

His 1970 World War II historical novel Bomber about an RAF Bomber Command raid over Germany often is considered his masterpiece.

* 1940 – New York City's " Mad Bomber " George Metesky places his first bomb at a Manhattan office building used by Consolidated Edison.

The Martin Bomber Plant was the site of manufacture for the historically significant Enola Gay and Bockscar, the planes used by the US to drop atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan, respectively, ending the Pacific war.

Gee used a series of transmitters sending out precisely timed signals, and the aircraft using Gee, RAF Bomber Command's heavy bombers, examined the time of arrival on an oscilloscope at the navigator's station.

In the 20th century it was owned by Richard de Yarburgh-Bateson, 6th Baron Deramore, and was used as the headquarters for the Royal Air Force's No. 4 ( Bomber ) Group from 1940 – 45.

But owing to the Air Ministry's concentration on RAF Fighter Command and RAF Bomber Command, Coastal Command was often referred to as the " Cinderella Service ", a phrase first used by the First Lord of the Admiralty at the time A V Alexander.

A double was used in other scenes, such as one where Bomber manhandles Wayne away from Ally's girlfriend in a nightclub.

Marina Raskova, one of very few women in the VVS prior to the war, used her influence with Stalin to form three all-female air regiments: the 586th Fighter Aviation Regiment, the 587th Bomber Aviation Regiment and the 588th Night Bomber Aviation Regiment ( a. k. a. the Night Witches.

Such changes to shape and surface composition form stealth technology as currently used on the Northrop Grumman B-2 Spirit " Stealth Bomber ".

The incendiary bomb was the standard light incendiary bomb used by Bomber Command in very large numbers, declining slightly in 1944 to 35. 8 million bombs produced ( the decline being due to more bombs arriving from the USA ).

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 ).

During the Second World War, Thornaby came under the control of 18 group, Coastal Command, prior to this however it had come under Flying Training, Fighter and Bomber Commands, and post-war under Reserve and Fighter Commands, at this time ( post-war ) it was also used by the Royal Air Force Regiment.

The lessons learned from the destruction of the Nant-y-Gro dam culminated in the 1943 Dambusters raid when Bomber Command used the same principles to breach the dams in the Ruhr Valley.

Both the 3rd SS Panzer Division of the Waffen-SS, and the World War II era Luftwaffes 54th Bomber Wing Kampfgeschwader 54 were given the unit name " Totenkopf ", and used virtually the same graphic skull-crossbones insignia as the SS units of the same name.

" Red Blob ," Bomber Commands first target indicator, is used to mark the target for the first time, glowing a distinctive red.

* May 29 – Aerial refueling is used on a combat mission for the first time, with twelve F-84 Thunderjets of the 159th Fighter Bomber Squadron being refueled by a KB-29 Superfortress on their way back from an attack on Sariwon, Korea.

Picking up 40 of these gives the player one Large Bomber token, but the player can use his remaining Small Bombers without a Large Bomber in stock ; the duration or strength of the bomb will merely be reduced according to the percentage of a full bomb that was used.

Accordingly the RLM sent out the specifications for Bomber B in July 1939, the Ju 88 retroactively becoming Bomber A, which was also an RLM designation initially used on June 3, 1936 for a heavy bomber concept, starting the Heinkel aircraft project that would eventually become the Heinkel He 177.

One of the few highlights for Essendon supporters during this time was when Graham Moss won the 1976 Brownlow Medal ; he was the only Bomber to do so in a 40-year span from 1953 – 1993.

However Wever's vision of a " Ural " bomber was never realised, and his emphasis on strategic aerial operations was lost, with the only design submittal for Wever's ' Bomber A ' that would reach production being Heinkel's Projekt 1041, which became officially known on November 5, 1937 as the Heinkel He 177.

Appropriately, the Cathedral has the only memorial in the United Kingdom dedicated to Bomber Command in the Second World War.

In January 1990, Irving gave a speech in Moers where he asserted that only 30, 000 people died at Auschwitz between 1940 – 45, all of natural causes, which was equal — so he claimed — to the typical death toll from one Bomber Command raid on German cities.

Later on, a raid by more than 300 bombers of the RAF Bomber Command on 27 November 1944 destroyed a large portion of the city center, with the notable exception of the Münster, which was only lightly damaged.

According to the Bomber Command Campaign Diary, " This raid was a complete success achieved on a completely cloud-covered target of small size, with only a moderate bomber effort and at trifling cost.

By contrast with its neighbours, Green Park has no lakes, no buildings and few monuments, having only the Canada Memorial by Pierre Granche, the Constance Fund Fountain and the RAF Bomber Command Memorial, opened in 2012.

Nazi Germany had put only one large, long-range strategic bomber ( the Heinkel He 177 Greif, with many delays and problems ) into production, while the America Bomber concept resulted only in prototypes.

It was in Oakland that Lamonica's passing acumen earned him the nickname " the Mad Bomber ", though his accuracy was sometimes suspect, as indicated by the fact that as a Raider starter from 1967 to 1972, his best completion average was only 53. 0 % ( in 1972 ), though it may be argued that was because his passes were so very long.

It was one of a number of designs considered for the Amerika Bomber mission, which started out in the spring of 1942 being focused solely on trans-Atlantic range piston-engined strategic bombers, like the Messerschmitt Me 264 and Junkers Ju 390, the only two airframe types actually built and flown for the competition.

It appears that immediately after 7 December 1941, only the 7th, 17th, 39th and 42d Bombardment Groups under II Bomber Command were available for this duty.

* Junkers Ju 288, presumptive Bomber B competition winner, prototypes only

During the same period, Bomber Command flies only five major night attacks against Germany.

Bomber Command previously had employed only ground markers, and the new capability allows British bombers to bomb through ten-tenths cloud cover.

RAF Bomber Command's response was tardy ; only 39 of the 242 bombers which took part found and attacked the ships and no hits were scored.

The only remaining RAF unit of significance was Headquarters No 3 Group, Bomber Command, which remained on station until 1967.

Bomber crews reported good results, turning for home if they lost their way or could not find the target due to weather, and pressing on only if they felt confident they could identify the target with certainty.

The same problem of supply faced Bomber Command, who expected to have only 300 Gee sets available by January 1942, all of them hand-built examples.

Later in the war the station was provided with a " Control Tower for Very Heavy Bomber Stations " to pattern 294 / 45, one of only four such towers to be built.

RAF Bomber Command represented only two percent of the RAAF personnel in WW2, but accounted for 23 % of the RAAF personnel killed in action.

The Group was re-established as No 8 ( Bomber ) Group on 1 September 1941 only to be disbanded around five months later on 28 January 1942.

( The school is the only to ever produce three 300-game players, with Simon and Justin Madden joining former Bomber Garry Foulds in this achievement.