The Greatest Day by Robert Taylor. AIT397DHM6496. The Greatest Day by Robert Taylor. Sunday 15 September 1940 and Luftwaffe supremo Hermann Goering believed victory over the RAF was at hand. Today, he decreed, would be the day that his 'glorious' Luftwaffe would finally break the back of Fighter Command's stubborn resistance. Or so he believed. In response to a massed formation of enemy aircraft detected heading for London, Air Vice Marshal Keith Park commanding 11 Group scrambled his
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En route to the Ruhr Dams on the night of 16/17 May 1943
this made Richthofen's 78th victory out of a final total of 80
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The Panzer Count by David Pentland
was to be achieved by mass surprise attacks on British and American bases in France
Erich Hartmann's tally of 352 victories is more than any other pilot in history
while the 1st Foot Guards lost 125 killed and 352 wounded
including three aircraft carriers
It was at this point that Peters was grateful for his 'secret weapons'
marching from Falkirk to relieve Stirling Castle