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Only operational Allied jet of The Second World War (Gloster Meteor)
Britains Gloster Meteor, which first took to the air in 1943, was the only operational Allied jet of the war.
Operation Tidal Wave
One of the most famous American bombing raids of the Second World War was Operation Tidal Wave, the raid on the oil fields at Ploesti, Romania.
Operation Tungsten

On 30 March 1944, HMS Belfast sailed from Scapa Flow in company with a powerful force of battleships and aircraft carriers. Their objective was the battleship Tirpitz, Germany's last surviving heavy surface unit, moored in the supposedly impregnable anchorage of Altenfjord in northern Norway.

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Tin of dried eggs, Second World War
Rationing in Britain during the Second World War