Low-Level Attack

During the summer of 1940, the Luftwaffe attempted to knock-out the RAF’s airfields, but on one sortie the raiders encountered a fearsome new defensive weapon: the Parachute and Cable device.

Attacking The Airfields


On 18 August 1940, the Luftwaffe launched its heaviest attacks to date against RAF airfields and infrastructure and one raid that day saw a formation of nine bombers from 9 Staffel KG76 headed at wavetop height towards the south coast. Ordinarily,...

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