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Marshal of the Royal Air Force Sir Arthur Travers Harris, 1st Baronet, GCB, OBE, AFC (13 April 1892 – 5 April 1984), commonly known as "Bomber" Harris by the press and often within the RAF as "Butch" Harris, was Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief (AOC-in-C) RAF Bomber Command during the height of the Anglo-American strategic bombing campaign ...
Bomber Harris is a 1989 BBC television drama biography based on the life of Arthur Harris, who was Commander-in-chief of RAF Bomber Command during the Second World War.
Under his capable direction, Bomber Command became a fearsome weapon, with great armadas rumbling through the night skies into the heart of the Reich. The first 1,000-bomber raid of the war pulverized 600 acres of Cologne on May 30-31, 1942, and left 45,000 people homeless.
Sep 1, 2011 · Arthur Travers Harris, known as “Bomber” Harris, became commander of RAF Bomber Command in early 1942. Until then, Bomber Command hadn’t done much, but the energetic and controversial Harris soon changed all that.
May 31, 2024 · Sir Arthur Harris, chief of Britain’s Bomber Command, was convinced, and managed to persuade his superiors, including Winston Churchill, that the war against Germany could be won by the bomber and that the critical target was German morale.
Jan 2, 2020 · Marshal of the Royal Air Force Sir Arthur Travers Harris was Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief of the Royal Air Force's Bomber Command for much of World War II. A fighter pilot in World War I, Harris was charged with implementing the British policy of area bombing German cities in the later conflict. During the war, he built Bomber Command into a ...
Sir Arthur Travers Harris, 1st Baronet (born April 13, 1892, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England—died April 5, 1984, Goring-on-Thames, Oxfordshire) was a British air officer who initiated and directed the “saturation bombing” that the Royal Air Force inflicted on Germany during World War II.
Arthur Harris, c.1940 © Harris led RAF Bomber Command in World War Two, earning him the nickname 'Bomber Harris'. His implementation of the policy of 'saturation' or 'area' bombing of German ...
In 1944, Arthur Harris was responsible for preparing the Allied invasion in Normandy by concentrating the efforts of its bombers on targets in France such as the rail network or the facilities of the Atlantic Wall.
Feb 10, 2013 · Sir Arthur 'Bomber' Harris, who directed the RAF's bombing missions which flattened German cities, remains one of the most controversial figures of WWII. Almost 30 years after his death, a rare...
