Tag: Bombing Germany

The Pilot Who Survived The RAF’s Deadliest Mission Of WW2

A Forces TV presentation 2018.

Flight Lieutenant ‘Rusty’ Waughman was 21 when he was flying Lancasters with 101 Squadron in 1944. He was one of the lucky ones who returned from the infamous Nuremberg raid on 30 March 1944. That night, the RAF losses surpassed those of the entire Battle of Britain.

Film footage – USAAF Fighters escorting B17 Bombers over Germany 1943

Film made by USAAF showing airfields in England preparing for bombing raid on Germany. Part 2 American fighter escorts (P-47’s and P-38’s) and B17 Flying Fortresses’s battling German fighters and flying through heavy air defences.