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“Bomber Command”

Stories3

The BOAC 'Flying Jellyfish': Captain James Howard and the Stratocruiser Centaurus

June 29, 1954 · Near the Quebec-Labrador border, about 150 nautical miles southwest of Goose Bay, Labrador

Canada

UAP · Formation · 16 sources

30Partially documented

Foo Fighters of World War II

November 1944 · Rhine valley north of Strasbourg, Alsace, with reports across the European and Pacific theatres

France

UAP · Orb / light · 76 sources

50Partially documented

Turin Four Red Lights: The RAF Lancaster Sighting

November 28, 1942 · South-west of Turin and an Alpine valley beyond, Piedmont

Italy

UAP · Cigar · 13 sources

29Thinly documented

Names1

Strategic Air Command Organisation · 7 stories
Strategic Air Command ran America's nuclear bombers and missiles, and several of the archive's most unsettling base incidents took place under its watch.

Documents78 · see all

SHAEF passes Air Ministry assessment to First Tactical Air Force Report

Project 1947 (AFHRA/NARA)· 1945-03-18· 1 pages· 1 page mentions it
- p. 1 …been received from the Air Ministry who say that Bomber Command crews have for some time been reporting similar phenomena…
Seventh Bomber Command mission report 11-327, Truk Report

Project 1947 (AFHRA/NARA)· 1945-05-02· 3 pages

1. DATE - TIME GROUP 2May $k h5 3. :;ouf;ce Military 4. NUMBER OF OBJECTS 3W3- 5. LENGTH…
Air Ministry reply 111/45/DDI2 Document

Project 1947 (AFHRA/NARA)· 1945-03-13· 1 pages· 1 page mentions it
- p. 1 …Bomber Command crews have for some time been reporting similar phenomenon. A few of the alleged aircraft may have been…
Warsaw Pact Air Forces: Support of Strategic Operations in Central Europe, CIA/DI/SOVA Intelligence Assessment, January 1985. FOIA release

Central Intelligence Agency· 95 pages· 35 pages mention it
- p. 54 Table 6 Aircraft With Nuclear Roles Typically Available to the Western High Command, Mid-1983 a Formation Number of Nationality…
- p. 57 Too Secret Figure 13 Execution of a Typical Initial Massed Nuclear Strike by the Western High Command- Subordinate Air Forces…
The Central Intelligence Agency and Overhead Reconnaissance; the U-2 and Oxcart Programs, 1954-1974 FOIA release

Central Intelligence Agency· 1900-01-01· 406 pages· 4 pages mention it
- p. 18 …This search soon led him to a British twin-engine medium bomber—the Canberra—built by the English Electric Company…
- p. 25 …photographs, he would put cameras in his B-36 bombers and added that he was not interested in a plane…
341st Missile Wing Heritage Pamphlet 2018 Document

Malmstrom AFB· 30 pages· 3 pages mention it
- p. 1 …The unit was one of the first bomber units in the CBI; being equipped with B-25 Mitchell medium bombers…
- p. 3 …The Group conducted routine training activity there with AT-6 (Fighter) AT-11 (Bomber) advanced training aircraft until it was…

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