Eighty years ago, on the afternoon of Sunday 13 August 1944, 27 crews from the RAF and South African Air Force and one Polish crew entered the operations room at the Allied Campo Casale airfield overlooking the harbour at Brindisi, in the heel of Italy.
As they sat down, they were faced with a large map of Europe with black tape running virtually its full length. The briefing officer got straight to the point. “Gentlemen, your target tonight is Warsaw.”
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