Wellington Bomber WWII BBC4 Tuesday14Sept;

[Bernard67Arnold]

Having just been watching the story of Wellingtons being built during the war, Sir Max Hastings was in it, very good indeed, did anyone catch it?? I still it was wrong that Bomber Harris was not given a Peerage after the war like the others. Bernard

 

[Lloyd]

I still it was wrong that Bomber Harris was not given a Peerage after the war like the others.

Harris refused a peerage in 1946, in protest at Bomber Command's crews being denied a separate campaign medal, and critisism of his 'Area bombing' tactics, particularly in respect of the devastating raids on Dresden and Pforzheim in February 1945. In 1953 Churchill demanded that he accept a Baronecy, and he became 1st Baronet Chipping Wycombe. The title became extinct on the death without an heir of the second Baronet, Harris' son Sir Anthony Kyrle Travers Harris, in 1996.

 

[BilboC]

I was at the RAF Museum, Cosford at the week-end. They had a Wellington on view under restoration, presumably the other one talked about on the TV programme, which is normally behind locked doors.