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.

He put a new fire and drive into the operations of Bomber Command.

The center also directed operations of the US Air Force Bomber and Tanker, Employment School since 1992 and the Air Rescue Center since 1993.

He shut down operations from China, consolidated all the B-29s in the Marianas, and replaced Hansell with LeMay in January 1945 as commander of XXI Bomber Command.

During the Second World War Bronowski worked in operations research for the UK's Department of Home Security, where he developed mathematical approaches to bombing strategy for RAF Bomber Command.

He served as a flight leader with the 136th Fighter Bomber Wing, and then as operations officer with the 154th Fighter-Bomber Squadron.

VIII Bomber Command, known as " Pinetree ", began strategic operations in Europe on 17 August 1942, with daylight missions on the precept that daylight attacks were more accurate than night attacks.

RAF fighters also supported the strategic bombing of Operation Crossbow, such as with long-range intruder operations that attacked German airfields and aircraft ( e. g., at take-off / landing ) at the time the Luftwaffe fighters would be scrambled against RAF Bomber Command ( see Operation Hydra ).

XX Bomber Command and the first B-29 groups were deployed in December 1943 to airfields in India for Operation Matterhorn operations against Japan.

Established on 22 February 1944 as a redesignation of VIII Bomber Command at High Wycombe Airdrome, England, 8 AF was a United States Army Air Forces combat air force in the European Theater of World War II, engaging in operations primarily in the Northern Europe AOR, carrying out strategic bombing of enemy targets in France, the Low countries and Germany and engaging in air to air fighter combat against enemy aircraft until the German Capitulation in May 1945.

Regular combat operations by the VIII Bomber Command began on 17 Aug 1942, when the 97th Bombardment Group flew 12 B-17Es on the first VIII Bomber Command heavy bomber mission of the war from RAF Polebrook, attacking the Rouen-Sotteville marshalling yards in France.

The British Government did not want to violate its agreement by attacking civilian targets outside combat zones, and the French were even more concerned lest Bomber Command operations provoke a German bombing attack on France.

** For the first time, Pathfinder aircraft support Bomber Command aircraft engaged in minelaying operations as four Pathfinder aircraft assist 63 Short Stirlings dropping naval mines at Kiel, Germany.

Seventy-eight bombers ( 9. 5 percent of the force ) fail to return – Bomber Commands highest losses on a single raid thus far in World War II – and the high loss rate among Halifaxes ( 34 aircraft, or 13. 3 percent of the Halifaxes dispatched and 14. 9 of those which do not turn back early ) prompts Bomber Command to withdraw Halifax IIs and Halifax Vs permanently from further operations over Germany.

* October 22 – 23 ( overnight ) – In support of Allied operations in North Africa, Royal Air Force Bomber Command mounts the first of 14 night attacks against targets in Italy, the last of which is flown on the night of December 11 – 12.

* Damned Good Show ( 2002 ) covers RAF Bomber Command's early bomber operations and has fictional No. 409 Squadron RAF flying the Handley Page Hampden.

The squadron began almost immediately to upgrade yet again to the Vulcan B2, taking delivery of the first on 1 September 1961, although its high-level strategic bombing role remained unchanged until the advent of effective Soviet Surface-to-Air Missiles forced Bomber Command to re-assign V-bombers from high-altitude operations to low-level penetration operations in March 1963, when the squadron's Vulcans adopted a mission profile that included a ' pop-up ' manoeuvre from 500 – 1, 000 ft to above 12, 000 ft for safe release of Blue Steel.

As the oldest command, initially beginning the earliest American operations in Europe as VIII Bomber Command, the Eighth had provided British liaison and strategic tasking guidance over each of those younger organizations throughout the war, whereas each had different command and control areas and responsibilities including those of the Mediterranean region air force operations.

On 1 September 1950, the 307th Bomb Group with its three squadrons of B-29s was deployed to Far East Air Force ( FEAF ) Bomber Command, Provisional at Kadena Air Base, Okinawa, engaging in combat operations during the Korean War.

After the advent of effective Soviet SAMs forced Bomber Command to re-assign V bombers from high-altitude operations to low-level penetration operations in March 1963, the squadron's Vulcans adopted a mission profile that included a ' pop-up ' manouvre from 500-1 ' 000 ft to above 12 ' 000 ft for safe release of Yellow Sun Mk2.

TA-4K in the colours of 2 Squadron RNZAF ; photographed 5 years after the type was retired, this is the only ex RNZAF Skyhawk stored outsideOn 11 October 1946 No. 2 Squadron ceased to exist when its name changed to No. 75 Squadron RNZAF, in commemoration of the New Zealand Bomber Squadron which served throughout the war in the RAF.

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.

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.

The spring 1942 Amerika Bomber program also sought to produce useful strategic bomber designs for the Luftwaffe, with their prime design priority being an advanced trans-oceanic range capability as the main aim of the project to directly attack the United States from Europe or the Azores.

The most famous story, first published in a collection called Break of Dark, is titled Blackham's Wimpy, the name of a Vickers Wellington Bomber featured in the story, whose nickname comes from the character J. Wellington Wimpy from the Popeye comics and cartoons ( the Wellington was named for Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, victor over Napoleon ).

*" Talking Head ", a 1979 song by Motörhead from Bomber

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 .".

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

Lucas John Helder ( born May 5, 1981 ) is a former University of Wisconsin – Stout college student from Pine Island, Minnesota, who earned notoriety as the Midwest Pipe Bomber in May 2002.

The platoon leader was 1st Lieutenant William T. Ryder, who made the first paratroop jump for the US Military on August 13, 1940 at Lawson Field, Fort Benning, GA from a B-18 Bomber.

Those include Kōdō Nippon ( The Imperial Way of Japan ) ( 1938 ), Kaigun Bakugeki-tai ( Naval Bomber Squadron ) ( 1940 ), The Burning Sky ( Moyuru ōzora ) ( 1940 ), Hawai Mare oki kaisen ( The War at Sea from Hawaii to Malaya ) ( 1942 ), Decisive Battle in the Skies ( Kessen-no Ōzara-e ) ( 1943 ) and Kato hayabusa sento-tai ( 1944 ).

Operations from the Northern Mariana Islands commenced in November 1944 after the XXI Bomber Command was activated there.

Her attacks include the Peach Bomber ( where she leaps forward, twirls and rams her hip into her opponent which causes an explosion ); her forward grab ( a massive slap that kills players at higher percentages ); her parasol ; using Toad as a human shield ; using golf clubs, tennis rackets, and frying pans as melee weapons ; and pulling turnips from the ground.

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.

Working for his breakfast by doing chores in the backyard of kindly Mrs. Potts ( Verna Felton ), Hal stops paperboy Bomber ( Nick Adams ) from pestering neighbor Madge Owens ( Kim Novak ), who happens to be dating Alan.

Detached from the wing, the 22d Bombardment Group deployed its B-29s in early July 1950 to Kadena AB, Okinawa, where it came under control of FEAF Bomber Command ( Provisional ).

* Charlie Spikes, the " Bogalusa Bomber " was a Major League Baseball player from 1972 to 1980 for the New York Yankees, Cleveland Indians, Detroit Tigers, and Atlanta Braves.

On 8 November 1954, the 474th Fighter Bomber Group was transferred to Clovis AFB from Taegu AB, South Korea after fighting in the Korean War.

Nicknamed the Brown Bomber, Louis helped elevate boxing from a nadir in popularity in the post-Jack Dempsey era by establishing a reputation as an honest, hardworking fighter at a time when the sport was dominated by gambling interests.

Add to this, during World War II, from May 1942 to July 1945, the U. S. Army Air Force's 8th Air Force Bomber Command, code-named " Pinetree ", was based at a former girls ' school at High Wycombe.

Laurie starred in the Thames Television film Letters from a Bomber Pilot ( 1985 ) directed by David Hodgson.

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.

On the night of 1 October 1943, 243 Lancasters and 8 Mosquitos from the Royal Air Force's Bomber Command attacked the city.