Berlin bombed in largest raid yet

1st March 1943: A dramatic account of a RAF Bomber Command raid on to the 'Big City'

A WAAF electrician repairing the switches on the engines panel in a Handley Page Halifax at a Bomber Command station

Handley Page Halifax B Mark II Series 1A, HR952 'MH-X', of No. 51 Squadron RAF receiving a mixed load of 500-lb MC bombs and incendiaries in its dispersal at Snaith, Yorkshire, for a night raid on Germany.

Handley-Page Halifax 'G for George', an aircraft bought for the Royal Air Force by the people of Ceylon, with its typically mixed Bomber Command crew of British, Canadians, New Zealanders and Australians, at RAF Driffield, Yorkshire.

Pilots and navigators plot courses to and from their target, following a briefing at Oakington, Cambridgeshire.