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- Sir_Arthur_Harris,_1st_Baronet abstract "Marshal of the Royal Air Force Sir Arthur Travers Harris, 1st Baronet GCB, OBE, AFC (13 April 1892 – 5 April 1984), commonly known as \"Bomber\" Harris by the press, and often within the RAF as \"Butcher\" Harris, was Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief (AOC-in-C) RAF Bomber Command during the latter half of the Second World War. In 1942, the British Cabinet agreed to the \"area bombing\" of German cities. Harris was tasked with implementing Churchill's policy and supported the development of tactics and technology to perform the task more effectively. Harris assisted British Chief of the Air Staff Marshal of the Royal Air Force Charles Portal in carrying out the United Kingdom's most devastating attacks against the German infrastructure and population, including the Bombing of Dresden.In 1910, at the age of 17, Harris emigrated to Southern Rhodesia, but he returned to England in 1915 to fight in the European theatre of the First World War. He joined the Royal Flying Corps, with which he remained until the formation of the Royal Air Force in 1918, and he remained in the Air Force through the 1920s and 1930s, serving in India, Mesopotamia, Persia, Egypt, Palestine, and elsewhere. At the outbreak of the Second World War in 1939, Harris took command of No. 5 Group RAF in England, and in February 1942 was appointed head of Bomber Command. He retained that position for the rest of the war. After the war Harris moved to South Africa where he managed the South African Marine Corporation.Harris's continued preference for area bombing over precision targeting in the last year of the war remains controversial, partly because by this time many senior Allied air commanders thought it less effective and partly for the large number of civilian casualties and destruction this strategy caused in Continental Europe.".
- Sir_Arthur_Harris,_1st_Baronet alias "Harris, Bomber".
- Sir_Arthur_Harris,_1st_Baronet award Air_Force_Cross_(United_Kingdom).
- Sir_Arthur_Harris,_1st_Baronet award Croix_de_guerre_1939–1945_(France).
- Sir_Arthur_Harris,_1st_Baronet award Distinguished_Service_Medal_(U.S._Army).
- Sir_Arthur_Harris,_1st_Baronet award Legion_of_Honour.
- Sir_Arthur_Harris,_1st_Baronet award Legion_of_Merit.
- Sir_Arthur_Harris,_1st_Baronet award Mentioned_in_dispatches.
- Sir_Arthur_Harris,_1st_Baronet award Order_of_Polonia_Restituta.
- Sir_Arthur_Harris,_1st_Baronet award Order_of_Suvorov.
- Sir_Arthur_Harris,_1st_Baronet award Order_of_the_Bath.
- Sir_Arthur_Harris,_1st_Baronet award Order_of_the_British_Empire.
- Sir_Arthur_Harris,_1st_Baronet award Order_of_the_Southern_Cross.
- Sir_Arthur_Harris,_1st_Baronet battle 1936–39_Arab_revolt_in_Palestine.
- Sir_Arthur_Harris,_1st_Baronet battle World_War_I.
- Sir_Arthur_Harris,_1st_Baronet battle World_War_II.
- Sir_Arthur_Harris,_1st_Baronet birthDate "1892-04-13".
- Sir_Arthur_Harris,_1st_Baronet birthPlace Cheltenham.
- Sir_Arthur_Harris,_1st_Baronet birthPlace England.
- Sir_Arthur_Harris,_1st_Baronet birthPlace Gloucestershire.
- Sir_Arthur_Harris,_1st_Baronet birthYear "1892".
- Sir_Arthur_Harris,_1st_Baronet deathDate "1984-04-05".
- Sir_Arthur_Harris,_1st_Baronet deathPlace England.
- Sir_Arthur_Harris,_1st_Baronet deathPlace Henley-on-Thames.
- Sir_Arthur_Harris,_1st_Baronet deathPlace Oxfordshire.
- Sir_Arthur_Harris,_1st_Baronet deathYear "1984".
- Sir_Arthur_Harris,_1st_Baronet militaryCommand "No. 191 Squadron RAF".
- Sir_Arthur_Harris,_1st_Baronet militaryCommand "No. 210 Squadron RAF".
- Sir_Arthur_Harris,_1st_Baronet militaryCommand "No. 31 Squadron RAF".
- Sir_Arthur_Harris,_1st_Baronet militaryCommand "No. 4 Group RAF".
- Sir_Arthur_Harris,_1st_Baronet militaryCommand "No. 44 Squadron RAF".
- Sir_Arthur_Harris,_1st_Baronet militaryCommand "No. 45 Squadron RAF".
- Sir_Arthur_Harris,_1st_Baronet militaryCommand "No. 5 Group RAF".
- Sir_Arthur_Harris,_1st_Baronet militaryCommand "No. 50 Squadron RAF".
- Sir_Arthur_Harris,_1st_Baronet militaryCommand "No. 58 Squadron RAF".
- Sir_Arthur_Harris,_1st_Baronet militaryCommand "RAF Bomber Command".
- Sir_Arthur_Harris,_1st_Baronet militaryCommand "RAF Pembroke Dock".
- Sir_Arthur_Harris,_1st_Baronet serviceEndYear "1946".
- Sir_Arthur_Harris,_1st_Baronet serviceStartYear "1914".
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