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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 ...
Apr 9, 2024 · 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 Played Crucial Role in Defeating Hitler’s Third Reich. The burly, mustached, reddish-haired chief of RAF Bomber Command from February 1942 to the war’s end had, indeed, played a crucial role in the defeat of Adolf Hitler’s Third Reich.
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 ...
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 ...
Apr 7, 1984 · Sir Arthur Travers Harris, Marshal of the Royal Air Force and the last of the leaders who planned and directed Allied operations against Germany in World War II, died Thursday night at...
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 ag...
