History of War

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1942 RAF Bomber Command’s first 1,000 bomber-raid against Cologne devastated the city, causing horrific destruction. Hitler demanded revenge, but the Luftwaffe was outmatched and overstretched. Albert Speer, Hitler’s architect-cum-armaments minister, proposed a solution – the world’s first ever long-range ballistic missile offensive. At the Peenemunde research facility on the Baltic coast, Walter Dornberger and Wernher

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