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We use cookies and other tracking technologies to improve your browsing experience on our website, to show you personalized content and targeted ads, to analyze our website traffic, and to understand where our visitors are coming from. 'Nickel' was the British overall designation of air raids against Germany in which offensive armament was replaced by loads of leaflets urging the German civil population to abandon the war (1939/40). Such raids were made by Air Marshal Sir Richard Peirse’s RAF Bomber Command at the express demand of the British government, which feared that the dropping of bombs on German soil would inevitably bring about retribution by German bomber forces, themselves wrongly believed to be considerably more powerful that those of RAF Bomber Command. The British aircrews had to endure all the operational disadvantages of offensive warfare, together with the dire winter conditions of the period, yet could achieve little of strategic importance, and learned little about

Nickel | Operations & Codenames of WWII Home Operations About Contact Operation Nickel 'Nickel' was the British overall designation of air raids against Germany in which offensive armament was replaced by loads of leaflets urging the German civil population to abandon the war (1939/40). Such raids were made by Air Marshal Sir Richard Peirse's RAF Bomber Command at the express demand of the British government, which feared that the dropping of bombs on German soil would inevitably bring about retribution by German bomber forces, themselves wrongly believed to be considerably more powerful that

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