During the summer of 1942, the first 1,000 bomber raids were launched on German cities.
The raid of 14 November combined several innovations which influenced all future strategic bomber raids during the war.
The use of pathfinder aircraft with electronic aids to navigate, to mark the targets before the main bomber raid.
The airfields were badly cratered by American bomber raids.
The Italian air force briefly used the airport as one of their bases to launch bomber raids onto the mainland.
Anarchy doesn't mean bombs in the street or supersonic bomber raids, it means 'without rulers'.
On the night of 30/31 May 1942, Cologne was the target for the first 1,000 bomber raid of the war.
They operated together with German pilots against an Allied bomber raid.
Despite the flood of American bomber raids, it was just too limited as a point-defence interceptor and quite ineffective.
The Battle over Britain continued, but the days of the heavy bomber raids were coming to a close.