British Mosquito aircraft of RAF Coastal Command attack German merchant ships and their escorts in the Nordgulen fjord in #Norway on December 5, 1944 (📽: British Pathé). | World War II History

🌺 Three Men of the Battle of Britain 🌺 Three lives. Three paths. One defining moment in history. ✈️ Flight Lieutenant Dennis Arthur Adams, RAF Dennis Arthur Adams was born on 6th May 1913 in Banbury and educated at Liskeard High School, Wallasey. He passed the entrance exam for Cambridge University, but chose an apprenticeship in the light leather industry and later worked at a tannery in Northampton. On 14th April 1936 he joined the F2 Reserve of Pilots at 7 E&RFTS Desford, becoming a Sergean

Fact Slap 👋 Today in 1940, RAF Bomber Command launches a heavy raid on Berlin. It also attacks the ports of Hamburg, Cuxhaven, Flushing, Antwerp, and Bremen. Other targets include oil installations at Stettin, Leuna, and Cologne and various rail lines and airfields in northwest Europe. Coastal Command attacks a power plant at Brest. RAF Beauforts attack shipping in Sognefjord (Norway's largest fjord). They bomb and sinks 763-ton Norwegian freighter H.J. Kyvig. Five crew perish. Some sources pla

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2.9K views · 111 reactions | El 5 de diciembre de 1944, el 248 Escuadrón de la RAF (Coastal Command), de aviones Mosquito, atacó 11 buques alemanes en el fiordo noruego de Nordgulen. Dejando una de las grabaciones más impresionantes de la Segunda Guerra Mundial. | The Political Room TPR | Facebook