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Author Malcolm Gladwell has doubled down on the claim made in his new book that Bomber Harris was a psychopath, despite criticism from the war heros grandson.  Gladwell criticised the World War Two chief of the Royal Air Forces Bomber Command, whose full name was Sir Arthur Harris, in his book The Bomber Mafia: A Story Set in War.  Sir Arthur received his popular nickname after orchestrating the RAFs hugely controversial strategic bombing of German cities, in which civilian areas were deliber...

The novel tells the adventures of Bobby Hollis, who has joined the Air Transport Auxiliary in a team known as the glamour girls - amazing women who pilot aircraft all around the country. The family and love life of Bobby are every bit as demanding as the wartime escapades in the ATA. Bobbys Life is Shirleys second novel featuring fictional heroines of the Second World War, the first being Lilys War. Shirley, a former newspaper and BBC journalist, said researching these women was inspiri...

Art Seelhorst SOUTH SHORE Art Seelhorst Jr. likes a challenge. In fact, the centenarian attributes his lone and healthy life, at least in part, to meeting challenges, like staying active, physically and mentally. “Exercise is the key to longevity,” he said. “You use it or you lose it.” The South Shore resident marked his birthday Tuesday with a big seafood dinner, but friends will have the opportunity to wish him a happy, 100th birthday on Saturday, when there will be a driv...

The Bombing of Dresden: Was the Attack Fully Justified? Was Operation Thunderclap—the 1945 air raid on the German city—a military necessity or an Allied war crime? The question is still debated. Here’s What You Need to Remember: It was February 1945, and the Bombing of Dresden had yet to commence. At this point in the war, the citizens of the capital of the German state of Saxony were beginning to think that they were living a charmed life. After all, they knew that every other major Germ...

WARWICK SMITH/Stuff Lorraine Gray has her father Trevor’s war-time diary and letters he wrote home before his death in 1941. “I was about 4. My mother was crying. I remember a tartan tea cosy he must have bought in England. “I kept thinking, ‘Where is he? Where is he?’ That’s when the death part hit me.” Trevor’s Wellington bomber crash-landed in northern Holland on November 7, 1941. The 27-year-old and his crew-mates died, but his family back home had no confirmation from in...

Book World: Wrestling with the strategy - and morality - of the firebombing of Japan Diana Preston, The Washington Post April 23, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail - - - On the night of March 9, 1945, more than 300 U.S. Army Air ForcesB-29 Superfortress bombers took off from rudimentary airfields in the Mariana Islands in the western Pacific, retaken from the Japanese the previous summer. Their mission was to attack a 12-square-mile sector of central Tokyo containing the highly flammable, densely pack...

Article content July 3, 1942. Pilot George Williams and a crew of six men took off from a runway at Swindon, England. Their destination: the channel between Nazi-occupied Denmark and neutral Sweden. At a month shy of his 26th birthday, this was George’s 21st mission. We apologize, but this video has failed to load. Try refreshing your browser, or QC: Bonded through flight, Gary Williams and father shared love of flying Back to video He piloted a Lancaster, a heavy bomber used by the British...

Advertisement It was the fighter plane that flew in the more famous Spitfires shadow during the Second World War, even though it downed more Nazi planes.  Armed with cannons and bombs, the Hawker Hurricane was responsible for 55 per cent of the RAFs air victories over Luftwaffe pilots and around 70 per cent of kills during the Battle of Britain.  Now, a new documentary shows the moment the daughter of a World War Two Hurricane pilot takes to the skies in her fathers plane.   Eugenie Brooks,...

Bomber Harris wasnt a villainous psychopath. He won us the war Those who served deserve to have their sacrifice honoured - not recontextualised by people seeking to sully Britain’s past 19 April 2021 • 7:00pm Picture the scene in August 1941. Soviet forces are reeling. America is still refusing to enter the war. More than a year after Dunkirk, British land forces have not had an opportunity to regain a foothold on the Continent. A British Strategic Review published that month was clear abou...

MPs back plan to commemorate Duke of Edinburgh with London statue Downing Street makes it clear that it backs idea of permanent monument, which is supported by Sir Keir Starmer 10 April 2021 • 9:00pm The Duke of Edinburgh is set to be commemorated with a statue on The Mall after the idea received cross-party backing on Saturday night. Downing Street made it clear that it backed the idea of a permanent monument to Prince Philip, who died on Friday at the age of 99. One source said it was an id...