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Mountbatten had been obliged to assert his authority at the outset of his command and did so, the integration of the Allied air forces proceeding as outlined below: Air Command South East Asia Allied Air Commander-in-Chief, Air Chief Marshal Sir Richard Peirse RAF. Eastern Air Command (EAC) AOC and second in command to Peirse, Major […]

With the withdrawal of many JAAF units in 1943 to bases beyond the reach of the medium bombers available, in May AOC-in-C Sir Richard Peirse switched attention to ‘Lines of Communication’ targets such as roads, railways, the military transit camps at Prome and Taungup, and Rangoon. For these targets the twin-engine Beaufighter and the single […]

Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur Harris called it Operation Gomorrah. On four nights between July 24 and August 2, 1943, he dispatched huge formations of heavy bombers to blitz Hamburg, Germany’s largest seaport and a leading ship-building and industrial center, from end to end. Bomber Command had never mounted such a destructive and continuous attack […]