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2 unusual facts about Arthur Harris


Arthur Harris

Arthur Harris, a character from The Odd Job, a 1978 comedy film starring Graham Chapman of Monty Python fame

Sir Arthur Harris, 1st Baronet (1892–1984), known as "Bomber Harris" or "Butcher Harris", head of RAF Bomber Command during World War II


Human rights in pre-Saddam Iraq

In the 1920s, when Britain held a mandate from the League of Nations (predecessor of the United Nations), British occupational forces, under the command of Arthur Harris, used mustard gas and delayed action bombing to suppress Iraqi resistance to British rule, leading to numerous civilian casualties.

No. 58 Squadron RAF

It was reformed in 1924 as a heavy bomber unit on training duties, commanded from 1925 by Squadron Leader Arthur Harris, later Air Marshal "Bomber" Harris.

Operation Tigerfish

Saundby was the deputy of Air Chief Marshal Arthur Harris, Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief of RAF Bomber Command.

Second Raid on Schweinfurt

Arthur Harris, Air Officer Commanding RAF Bomber Command refused to cooperate with the Americans, believing ball bearing targets to be a false "panacea".

Thomas Dewar Weldon

He then served as Rhodes travelling fellow in 1930, a civil servant in London from 1939 to 1942, and PA to Arthur Harris in RAF Bomber Command at High Wycombe from 1942 to 1945.


see also

The Odd Job

The concept was originally made as an episode of the London Weekend Television/ITV series 6 Dates With Barker in 1971, with Ronnie Barker as Arthur Harris and David Jason as the Odd Job Man (who plays the same role in the feature film).