HARRIS, SIR ARTHUR TRAVERS, 1ST BARONET


Meaning of HARRIS, SIR ARTHUR TRAVERS, 1ST BARONET in English

born April 13, 1892, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, Eng.

died April 5, 1984, Goring-on-Thames, Oxfordshire

British air officer.

He served in World War I and after the war in various posts in the Royal Air Force ( RAF ). Nicknamed Bomber Harris, as air marshal and commander of the RAF bomber command (1942), he developed the saturation technique of mass bombing (concentrating clouds of bombers in a giant raid on a single city) that was applied with destructive effect on Germany in World War II.

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