New Zealand Bomber Command Association
Operations
Operations
The Battle of Hamburg 1943
After the five-month long concentrated attack on the Ruhr, Germany’s industrial centre, Bomber Command’s attention turned to Hamburg. While much shorter in duration, Operation Gomorrah was a campaign of extraordinary intensity and an important event in the moral argument of bombing operations after the war.
The Battle of the Ruhr 1943
March 1943 marked the beginning of one of the most dramatic battles of the air war - a four-month assault on the Ruhr Valley, the industrial fortress of Germany. More than 18,000 sorties were flown. Almost nine hundred aircraft were lost, with six thousand aircrew killed, among them many New Zealanders.