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USAAF bombs Japan again
14th August 1945: The last bombing mission of the war is also the largest in the Pacific and the longest distance raid
'Sneak raiders' hit RAF airfields
14th August 1940: Retribution is swift as a lone bombers attacks 609 Squadron's base at Middle Wallop
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Bomber Command- Heroism and Disaster
13th August 1940: Bomber pilots press home their attacks - but a daylight raid on a heavily defended Luftwaffe airfield in Denmark ends in disaster
A narrow escape at Manston
12th August 1940: The Battle of Britain enters a new stage as massed bombers supported by fighters target RAF bases
The Camel Corps defend Observation Hill
11th August 1940: 'Posthumous' VC for British officer who leads the defence of British Somaliland
'The Hohenzollerns and the Nazis'
How the German Royal Family collaborated with the Nazis throughout the 1930s and into the war years
Huge rise in Aircraft Production
10th August 1940: Churchill is reassured by gains in productivity, during wide-ranging weekend talks about the war
Destroyers on A/S Patrol
9th August 1940: Royal Navy ships on patrol around Britain are the first line of defence against invasion
The battle for Convoy Peewit
8th August 1940: Ships passing down the English Channel are repeatedly attacked by dive-bombers - as RAF scamble to intercept all through the day
Exhaustion takes its toll
7th August 1940: Relentless days of being on alert - and flying several sorties every day - has fatal consequences for RAF fighter pilots
Hiroshima - a new age begins
6th August 1945: Paul Tibbets describes his historic mission to drop the first atomic bomb - killing around 80,000 people
'Stay Put' if invasion comes
5th August 1940: Every British household gets an 'official order' on what to do if the invasion comes
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