The Peenemünde raid, Operation Hydra, was flown on the night of 17/18 August 1943. That night the northern tip of Usedom lay under a waning gibbous moon, the Baltic silver beyond the pine belt, the sand flats and the reed edges of the Peenemünder Haken picked out as clearly as they would be at dusk.… Read article
At 08:20 on the morning of 18 April 1942, Lieutenant Colonel James H. Doolittle sat in the cockpit of a B-25 Mitchell medium bomber at the forward end of the USS Hornet’s flight deck, engines run up against the brakes, the carrier’s bow rising and plunging through a grey North Pacific gale. Behind him, packed… Read article
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