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3 unusual facts about Noble Frankland


Combined Bomber Offensive

According to Charles Webster and Noble Frankland, Big Week and the subsequent attack on the aircraft industry reduced "the fighting capacity of the Luftwaffe" through threatening the bombing of strategic targets and "leaving the German fighters with no alternative other than to defend them" but "the combat was primarily fought and certainly won" by the US long range fighters.

Noble Frankland

From 1948 until 1951 he worked at the Air Historical Branch of the Air Ministry, and received his DPhil from Oxford in April 1951.

During 1971–74 he was historical advisor to the Thames Television series, The World at War, and completed several books on historical subjects.



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