Battle of the Ruhr
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The Battle of the Ruhr was a strategic bombing campaign against the Ruhr Area in Nazi Germany carried out by RAF Bomber Command during the Second World War. The Ruhr was the main centre of German heav
The Krupp factory at Essen, 1945
Vickers Wellington bomber, superseded in Bomber Command by newer four-engined heavy bombers during 1943
GEE airborne equipment, with the R1355 receiver on the left and the Indicator Unit Type 62A on the right
Diagram of the operation of the Oboe system
Josef Kammhuber
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Josef Kammhuber was a career officer who served in the Imperial German Army, the Luftwaffe of Nazi Germany and the post-World War II German Air Force. During World War II, he was the first general of
Battle of the Ruhr
…accurate enough to guide Flak and night fighters, a Würzburg-guided Flak battery shooting down a bomber in September 1940. In October Oberst (Colonel) Josef Kammhuber established three night-fighter zones on the approaches to the Ruhr. The zones were 56 mi (90 km) long and 12 mi (19 km) wide, with a battalion of…
Josef Kammhuber as Inspector of the West German Air Force
Slot Zeist, Kammhubers headquarters.
Kammhuber (left) and Helmut Lent in a Nazi propaganda photograph, France, 1942
Meeting between Kammhuber and Air Marshal Sir Thomas Pike in 1956. Pike had previously served as an RAF night fighter pilot.