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Air Chief Marshal Sir Ralph Alexander Cochrane, GBE, KCB, AFC (24 February 1895 – 17 December 1977) was a British aviator and Royal Air Force officer, perhaps best known for his role in Operation Chastise, the famous "Dambusters" raid.
No. 5 Group RAF (5 Gp) was a Royal Air Force bomber group of the Second World War, led during the latter part (February 1943 – 1945) by AVM Sir Ralph Cochrane.
8 de nov. de 2022 · Military History. November 8, 2022. In the annals of popular history, the exploits of one Royal Air Force squadron stand head and shoulders above the others. The story of a squadron of bombers that flung itself against heavily defended targets at low level captivated audiences in a 1950s film.
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13 de mai. de 2013 · British Inventor and engineer Barnes Wallis describes the origins of the Dambusters raid on the German dams in 1943. Air Vice Marshal Sir Ralph Cochrane explains how the bouncing bombed worked...
Ralph Cochrane was born in 1895 into a distinguished naval family. After joining the Royal Navy, he volunteered in 1915 to serve with the RNAS in airships and was an early winner of the Air Force Cross.
As AOC in C, Transport Command, he became very conscious of the high accident rate in the Command and set about remedying the situation by stepping up the training and by giving accident prevention a much higher profile.
26 de mar. de 2020 · AVM Sir R.A. Cochrane – provided by Geoff Raebel, Australian Bomber Command Association Editor. It was a particularly bitter night in the winter of 1944 as the Warrant Officer made a last check of the dispersals of his Flight at 463 Squadron, Waddington.
