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The RAF initiated shuttle...

history · 20 June 1943 · 81 years ago

The RAF initiated shuttle bombing, where planes departed home fields to bomb Germany, re-armed in Africa, then bomb Italian targets en route back to Britain. The first of these raids targeted Friedrichshafen, Germany. 

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