Royal Airforce - WW2 Special Operations DVD

Disc 1 - Thunderclap: In the closing stages of the Second World War Air Marshal ""Bomber"" Harris took the controversial decision to target civilians by laying waste to German cities. With waves of bombers crossing the German border many towns and cities were razed to the ground. One such city was Dresden. Tens of thousands of people were killed in the attacks that ultimately realised their intentions that of crushing the German people's morale and bringing the war to an early end. However the debate still continues; was Air Marshal Harris the murderer of innocent... civilians or simply a man with strong enough ideals to adopt a tactic which would ultimately lead to victory over the German war machine? Disc 2 - Operation Gomorrha: The aerial bombing in the summer of 1943 devastated the people port and buildings of Hamburg reducing a once prosperous city to nothing more than a pile of ashes. Whilst Allied bombers pounded the city the terrified citizens took cover in cellars and purpose-built bomb shelters in hopes of enduring the raids. Survivors emerged to find their city engulfed in flames in what was to become known as the Hamburg Firestorm. With the level of destruction; culture and architecture being completely destroyed the city was never to recover to its former glory. Such was the nature of the onslaught that scars of the aftermath of the bombings still remain to this day. Disc 3 - Operation Millennium: As American troops entered the city of Cologne in March 1945 they were awestruck at the scene of utter devastation which lay before them. The once great city had been targeted as part of the Allied ""Terror Bombing"" campaign a tactic that's morality is still debated today. Archive footage and eye witness accounts go only part of the way to describing the nightmare that had immersed what was Germany's fourth largest city. [show more]

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