Bomber Command
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| Originally published | October 1979 |
| Authors | Max Hastings |
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| ID | 2345583 |
About Bomber Command
An account which traces the development of area bombing, using documents, letters, diaries and interviews with key surviving witnesses. Bomber Command's offensive against the cities of Germany was one of the epic campaigns of World War II.
Their plane went down - how this WW2 Canada crew survived
... Using their own recollections and those of their families, as well as records from the Bomber Command Museum of Canada, the BBC is retelling the story of how their plane went down, the drama of their capture and how some of them survived...
Obituary: Sqn Ldr George 'Johnny' Johnson
... Johnson described his new Wing Commander as " arrogant, bombastic, a strict disciplinarian, but one of the best pilots in Bomber Command"...
Dunkirk 'shed door' veteran Les Rutherford dies aged 101
... He later joined Bomber Command and served as a bomb aimer in the RAF...
Facebook plea for Southampton 'no family' RAF airman
... George Osborne (fourth from left) was a signaller in Bomber Command Air Crew Funeral director Paul Capper said it was an Antiques Roadshow moment when he first saw the photos which had not been seen by anybody for 70 years ...
Costa Book of the Year: Jewish rescue story The Cut Out Girl wins
... The Scottish poet s sixth book was inspired by his father s work as part of Bomber Command during the Cold War...
The Papers: 'Groundhog May' and resignation threats
... The desecration of the three war memorials in central London on Sunday night - including a tribute to Bomber Command is widely covered...
The Papers: 'Groundhog May' and resignation threats
There's an air of disappointment about Theresa May 's Commons statement setting out what had been billed as a Plan B for Brexit.
"Is that it?" The Mirror asks. The i reports there was incredulity as MPs heard Plan B become Plan A again. In The Words of the Financial Times,
The Independent website says it was clear As If absolutely nothing had happened.
For The Spectator website, it sounded a lot like her Plan A, with some bonus meetings with MPs from other parties thrown in.
In all its key components, The Daily Telegraph says, The Package that was emphatically rejected last week remains intact.
For the Daily Express , it didn't add up to a coherent Plan B . Polly Toynbee in The Guardian writes that.
On The Front pages, and that dozens of ministers are threatening to resign unless the Prime Minister allows Conservative MPs a free vote on a Commons amendment to stop a no-deal Brexit.
The Telegraph says after bowing to pressure from Labour Party members and MPs.
and that a further referendum could damage social cohesion.
The Daily Mail leads on for The Killer of 24-year-old Charlotte Brown, who died in a speedboat accident on the Thames in 2015. Jack Shepherd was convicted of her manslaughter and jailed in his absence, But is on the run.
The Mail says Miss Brown's family are to meet Sajid Javid to call for "full resources and unflinching efforts" to catch him. Her father, Graham, tells The Paper The Police and other agencies must leave no stone unturned.
The desecration of three war memorials in Central London on Sunday Night - including one honouring Bomber Command - is widely covered. A statue of Sir Winston Churchill and President Roosevelt was also daubed with white paint.
The Mirror says The Attack on the Bomber Command memorial was.
The Head of the RAF Benevolent Fund, which maintains The Memorial , tells the Telegraph this was the worst of the incidents, But .
and both offer a £5,000 reward for information leading to arrests.
Finally, there's news of. The Mail reports that Pasty purists from Land's End to Launceston insist that if it's vegan, it can't be called a Cornish Pasty .
According to The Paper , rules drawn up by the Cornish Pasty Association state that the official recipe must contain at least 12. 5% beef and 25% vegetables.
The vegan offering is filled with potato, onion and swede, But the steak has been replaced with a meat alternative. The Paper points out that even the EU says only a Pasty made the traditional way in Cornwall can be called a Cornish Pasty .
Source of news: bbc.com