The Royal Air Force

Handley Page heavy bombers at an airfield near Dunkirk, Belgium, 1918.
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Western Front
Handley Page heavy bombers sit on an airfield near Dunkirk, France, in 1918. The aircraft came into service too late to achieve the objective of bombing Berlin.

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