No. 5 Group was a Royal Air Force bomber group of the Second World War, led during the latter part (February 1943 - 1945) by Sir Ralph Cochrane. Cochrane was an advocate of precision low-level marking, and lobbied heavily to be allowed to prove himself, and that 5 Group could attempt targets and techniques that 8 Group would not. The Royal Air Force (often abbreviated to RAF) is the air force branch of the UK Armed Forces. ... Mushroom cloud from the nuclear explosion over Nagasaki rising 18 km into the air. ...

Cochranes No. 617 Squadron proved his point when they broke the Ruhr dams from a height of 60 feet, and later, using the new Stabilised Automatic Bomb Sight, achived an incredible accuracy of only 94 yards at the V Weapon launch site at Abbeville. 5 Group invented various techniques, such as the '5 Group corkscrew' to evade enemy fighters, and the '5 Group quick landing system'. No. ... The Ruhr in Essen-Kettwig The Ruhr is a large river in western Germany (North Rhine-Westphalia) starting near the town of Winterberg in Sauerland and ending in the Rhine in the city of Duisburg. ... This article refers to the city in France. ...

The Group was formed on September 1st 1937, with headquarters at RAF Mildenhall. In October 1937, the Group HQ was moved to St Vincents in Grantham. Air Commodore Arthur Harris was in charge here from September 11th 1939 until November 22nd 1940. In February 1942, he became Commander-in-Chief of RAF Bomber Command. The Group had some of the finest squadrons of Bomber Command, resulting in the Dambusters squadron being formed from airmen of the Group in March 1943. Group HQ was moved to Morton Hall at Swinderby in Lincolnshire in November 1943. Most of the Group's main airfields were around Lincoln, including RAF Scampton. RAF Mildenhall is a Royal Air Force station in Suffolk, England. ... Location within the British Isles. ... An Air Commodoress sleeve/shoulder insignia Air Commodore is the fourth most senior rank active in the Royal Air Force today, after the deactivation of Marshal of the Royal Air Force as a substantive rank in peacetime during defence cuts of the 1990s. ... Sir Arthur Travers Harris, 1st Baronet (April 13, 1892 - April 5, 1984), commonly known as Bomber Harris, and often within the RAF as Butcher Harris, was commander of RAF Bomber Command and later a Marshal of the Royal Air Force during the latter half of World War II. In 1942... Commander-in-Chief (in NATO-lingo often C-in-C or CINC pronounced sink) is the commander of all the military forces within a particular region or of all the military forces of a state. ... RAF Bomber Command was the organisation that controlled the RAFs bomber forces. ... RAF Bomber Command was the organisation that controlled the RAFs bomber forces. ... Operation Chastise was the official name for the attacks on German dams on May 17, 1943 in World War II using a specially developed bouncing bomb. The attack was carried out by Royal Air Force No. ... Lincolnshire (abbreviated Lincs) is a county in the East Midlands of England, traditionally the second largest after Yorkshire. ... // Now a widespread name, Lincoln is originally a city in eastern England. ... RAF Scampton is a Royal Air Force station situated north of Lincoln in England. ...

The Group was noted for its high accuracy bombing, such as the sinking of the Tirpitz in November 1944 and the shattering of the strategic Bielefeld railway viaduct in March 1945. The Group had substantial cooperation with Barnes Wallis and his bouncing and earthquake bombs. German battleship Tirpitz underway for her trials, 1941 Tirpitz was a battleship of the German Kriegsmarine, a sister ship to the German battleship Bismarck, and named for Admiral Alfred von Tirpitz. ... Map of Germany showing Bielefeld Bielefeld is a city in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. ... Sir Barnes Neville Wallis, FRS, commonly known as Barnes Wallis, (September 26, 1887 – October 30, 1979) was a British scientist, engineer and inventor. ... The bouncing bomb was a kind of bomb designed by Barnes Wallis of Vickers-Armstrong at Brooklands, Surrey. ... A British 22,000 lb Grand Slam bomb The Grand Slam (Earthquake) bomb was developed by Barnes Wallis in late 1944. ...

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