Bomber Command Quarterly Issue 3

The Bomber Command Quarterly (BCQ) title is based on the Bomber Command Quarterly Review produced from 1942 to the end of war. The Bomber Command Quarterly Review, issued by HQ Bomber Command, was one of the ideas brought in by Air Marshal Harris when he took command of what, to some, was an increasingly costly and failing campaign. The magazine was in part designed to boost morale amongst the Bomber leadership and to stress to other commanders and politicians the valuable, indeed essential, work of the Command.
This new quarterly ‘journal’ will appear in January, April, July, October and will cover a wide range of subjects, primarily dealing with World War Two but also featuring the post-war years of Bomber Command up to its merging into the new Strike Command in 1968.
Issue 3 of BCQ is nearly 200 pages and includes features on:
Odds and Ends; interesting short features
‘The bomber will always get through’
Ops: Nickels
Dear … ‘Letter in the event of my death’
Crews of Bomber Command: 115 Squadron
Aircraft: Vickers-Armstrongs Wellington
They also served: The engine fitters
Pathfinder Force monthly summaries
Crash-landing in Sweden
Escape Aids
The air offensive on the Axis transport system
Bomber Command’s anti-railway campaign
A German tribute to Bomber Command
RAF Ingham: Polish bomber squadrons centre
Bomber Command and the Maritime War
Bomber Command Navigator: The ‘Channel Dash.’
Book Review: The invisible campaign
Heraldry: No 1 Group 1945
Heraldry: 99 Squadron
Bomber Command Battle Honours
Log Book: Flight Engineer, 426 Squadron
Operational Groups: No.100 Group Part 2 (Spoofers and Jammers)
ORBs – and Appendices
Cold War: Bomber Command enters the jet age.