 17-18 Aug 1943 - Bomber Command dispatches 597 aircraft to attack the German rocket research centre at Peenemunde on the Baltic coast. Forty aircraft failed to return, but the V-2 rocket programme is delayed by approximately two months.
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On weald of Kent I watched once more
Again I heard that grumbling roar
Of fighter planes; yet none were near
And all around the sky was clear
Borne on the wind a whisper came
'Though men grow old, they stay the same'
And then I knew, unseen to eye
The ageless Few were sweeping by
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