Target Peenemunde by Robert Taylor. SIG893 9A helicopters sitting on the

9A helicopters sitting on the flight line at Camp Bastion

a high cost indeed

nearly two thousand miles from frozen wastelands of the Arctic in the north

Shaken to their very centre

Target Peenemunde by Robert Taylor. SIG893 9A helicopters sitting on theDHM2088. Target Peenemunde by Robert Taylor. On the evening of 17th August 1943, a total of 596 aircraft of RAF Bomber Command, spearheaded by the Pathfinder Force, set out on what called for, and what became, the most precise bombing raid of the war. Success was vital. The target was a secluded research establishment near the remote Baltic town of Peenemunde. There, a group of top German scientists were developing the V 2 rocket projectile, with