Flying as SPICY21 and SPICY22, two B-1B Lancer bombers, belonging to the 7th Bomb Wing, from Dyess Air Force Base, Texas, landed at RAF Fairford, in Gloucestershire, England, UK, to kick off the ...

from the 509th Bomb Wing and the 131st Bomb Wing, Whiteman Air Force Base, Missouri, arrived to RAF Fairford, UK, as part of a Bomber Task Force Europe deployment. One arrived from the U.S ...

The Blitz began on September ... who were killed in the bombing campaign, more than half of them were from London. In addition to London's streets, several other UK cities - targeted as hubs ...

The B-2 pilots and support staff are from the 509th Bomb ... RAF Fairford has long been an important strategic base for American forces. The arrival caused a stir across the UK.

As the 75th anniversary of the start of the Blitz ... bombing came about - and the devastation and death that was caused in the nightly raids. In the quiet early months of the war people in the UK ...

THE Blitz was Nazi leader Adolf ... planned invasion of the Soviet Union — and the bombing ended. London had not suffered alone. Most UK urban and industrial centres were targeted by the ...

Concentration etched on his face, a young man helps drag a woman from a bombed air raid shelter at the height of the Blitz. He had no ... But the identity of bomb rescue hero Albert Rob­­bins ...

The German air assault from September 1940 until May 1941 targeted industrial and civilian areas of the UK during the Second World War THE Blitz was a devastating bombing campaign by the German ...

John F Jungclaussen tells the story of Lubeck's Blitz. John F Jungclaussen, UK correspondent ... response to a RAF raid on Berlin, they changed their tactics to the sustained bombing of civilian ...

York was one of four cathedral cities bombed after the Luftwaffe, angered by RAF attacks on the German ... Mr Newsome, who is from Wakefield, took refuge in a bomb shelter with his colleagues.

but it heralded the first of 57 consecutive nights of bombing. The daylight raid alone caused some 300 civilian deaths and a further 1,300 serious injuries; by the end of the Blitz, around 30,000 ...