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    • “A CHANCE ENCOUNTER” by Dr Olav Heinemann, Duisburg-Essen University
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    • GEOFF BAKER, RAAF Pilot with 97 Squadron, by Stan Hurd
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  • Category: Publicity and PR

    The wartime RAF was an extremely adroit self-publicist and nearly always won the PR battle. Things would change when the war was over.

  • Post-War View of Bomber Command

    Posted by RAF Pathfinders Archive on February 19, 2022November 13, 2022

    Although the bombing campaign had received very positive publicity during the war, post-war the tide of public opinion began to turn against the campaign. By extension, this would come to mean that the aircrew themselves. …

    Publicity and PR, War's Over - what came next
  • Wartime Opposition to Bombing

    Posted by RAF Pathfinders Archive on January 2, 2021July 10, 2022

    During the war, public opinion in Britain and the Dominions was firmly on the side of Bomber Command. However, there was also some determined criticism of Bomber Command’s campaigns, not least by George Bell, Bishop …

    Germany, Publicity and PR, RAF BOMBER COMMAND
  • Bonzo Joined the RAF …

    Posted by RAF Pathfinders Archive on April 30, 2019

    Here is a delightful photograph and story in another of the RAF’s brilliant PR campaigns. BONZO JOINED THE RAF IN ITALY

    Publicity and PR, WAR BACKGROUND
  • Harris, Bomber Command & PR

    Posted by RAF Pathfinders Archive on April 29, 2019July 10, 2022

    Our post of 27 April 2019 contained a Press photograph of Harris using a stereopticon. It was only when we came to do a further post on the subject that we realised the link between the Press …

    Intelligence & Counter-Measures, Publicity and PR
  • Daylight Raids, October 1942

    Posted by RAF Pathfinders Archive on October 17, 2018March 24, 2019

    Like the Le Creusot raid of 17 October, the Milan raid of 24 October was flown in daylight. It is not entirely certain on which of the two operations this photograph and three other related …

    Publicity and PR
  • Le Creusot Raid, 17 October 1942

    Posted by RAF Pathfinders Archive on October 16, 2018October 15, 2020

    The Le Creusot operation in daylight on 17 October 1942 was one of the most daring of several Bomber Command raids flown that year which were perhaps as much concerned with PR and morale as …

    Publicity and PR
  • PR & Bomber Command

    Posted by RAF Pathfinders Archive on October 14, 2018July 10, 2022

    During the war, the exploits of Bomber Command were celebrated in all the mass media, including newspapers, newsreel, and radio. Two of the most notable operations were the Augsburg raid of April 1942 (in which …

    Publicity and PR, RAF BOMBER COMMAND
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