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Authors: Max Hastings

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Night images of Germany: the sort of views the crews of Bomber Command saw beneath them over their targets; flak trails, the pinpoints of burning incendiaries on the ground, and, in one photo, aircraft below are clearly visible.

Albert Speer (
on the right
) with Field-Marshal Erhard Milch, the man responsible for aircraft production until his fall from grace in 1944.

The Prime Minister with Lord Cherwell (
on the left
), Sir Charles Portal and the First Sea Lord, Sir Dudley Pound.

Magrath (82 Squadron).

Staton (10).

 

Donaldson (10).

Lindaas (76).

 

Maze (76).

Hornsey (76).

 

Newton (76).

Cheshire (76).

 

Eclipse: the C-in-C of Bomber Command with his wife and daughter on their way to South Africa soon after the end of the war. Harris did not share the honours that fell to other service leaders in the wake of victory, and never concealed his bitterness that his men were denied their own Campaign Medal.

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