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2 unusual facts about Robert Saundby


Operation Tigerfish

The name Tigerfish goes back to Air Vice-Marshall Robert Saundby, an avid fisherman who codenamed all German cities "fitted" for carpet bombing with a Fish code.

Robert Saundby

On behalf of Harris he elected 94 German towns which were "fitted" for carpet bombing and gave codenames to each of them known as 'Fish code'; for example Nuremberg was codenamed Grayling and Berlin was Whitebait.



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