The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Heligoland, Germany. 1945-04-18. Devastation on the naval base and fortress island of Heligoland from the RAF Bomber Command attack, when nearly a thousand aircraft pounded the target. Australian Lancaster and Halifax squadrons took part. Bomb craters cover the whole area while smoke is still rising from big fires. Of the naval and military buildings there is practically nothing to be seen.
Heligoland, Germany. 1945-04-18. The airfield on the island of Dune before the attack by nearly a thousand aircraft of RAF Bomber Command, including a number from Australian Lancaster and Halifax squa
RAF Bomber Command Operational films of daylight bombing raiders by Lancaster heavy bombers on Heligoland 19 April 1945 and Berchtesgaden 25 April 1945. (Ops 281) Opening scene taken from bombing came
Calais, France. 1944-09. Under this pall of smoke lie heavily defended positions four miles West of Calais during RAF Bomber Command's attack on 1944-09-20 when large forces of Lancaster aircraft and
RAF Bomber Command operational film of daylight attack by 5 Group on the airfield and signals depot at St Cyr, France. Shows air to air shots of Lancasters heading for target. The target area covered
France. 1944-06-29. Heavy bombs fall onto a smoke shrouded target from a Bomber Command Lancaster aircraft during a daylight attack on Flying Bomb Installations in Pas de Calais. Three squadrons of RA
Tromso Fjord, Norway. 1944-11. Aerial view taken from a Lancaster aircraft of No. 463 Squadron RAAF during the attack on the Tirpitz by Lancasters of No. 9 and No. 617 Squadrons RAF on 1944-11-12 and
