At dawn they set about communicating with the RAF aircraft on patrol above the city.

This would have required extensive modification as the RAF aircraft were not fitted with wing hard points.

Due to a failure by ground crewmen, most of the RAF aircraft were not armed.

He has logged over 4,500 hours in 15 American and 10 RAF aircraft.

Two of the 15th's planes did not return from the mission, along with one RAF aircraft.

Altogether, the attacks destroyed 20 RAF aircraft and damaged several others.

The total casualties on this critical day were 60 German and 26 RAF aircraft shot down.

On the night of the raid, no RAF aircraft took to the air.

Four were built to take the largest RAF aircraft.

This became impossible as the numbers of the RAF aircraft rose.