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Company of heroes 2 carpet bomb british1/28/2024 All the while, the shells – 'flak' – from German anti-aircraft gunners on the ground burst around them, and beneath them the 4000 lb (1814 kg) 'Cookie' bombs and thousands of smaller incendiaries from other aircraft exploded, shattering buildings and setting fires. This was one of the most feared moments for the big bomber's seven-man crew, captained by their pilot, RAAF Squadron Leader Bill Forbes, as they had to fly their aircraft straight and level for the time it took to open the bomb doors, release the load at the aiming point, then take a photograph to show how close they were to the correct position, before climbing away as fast as the Lancaster's four Rolls Royce Merlin engines would take them. 467 Squadron, Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF), as the aircraft began its bomb run over Germany's capital city, Berlin. Sixteen months later, on 2 December 1943, King witnessed this destruction for himself from the flight deck of Avro Lancaster JB 140 of No. I saw six bombers fresh from the production lines capable of carrying about 50 tons of death and destruction in one journey over Germany. On 12 August 1942, Alf King, London correspondent for The Sydney Morning Herald, stood on the tarmac of an AV Roe and Company (Avro) test aerodrome and marvelled at what stood before him: Chapter 1: Berlin, 2 December 1943: a spectacle of devastation
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