The Invisible Campaign: Bomber Command Gardening Operations 1940-1945

RAF Bomber Command’s aerial minelaying operations, crucial yet little-known, successfully disrupted Axis shipping 1940–1945.

Aerial mining by RAF Bomber Command was a vital part of the Allied war effort – claiming far more tonnage of Axis shipping destroyed than direct attack by either Coastal or Bomber Command itself. Minelaying operations commenced in April 1940 and expanded dramatically as the war progressed, yet today this vital campaign and its wide-ranging achievements against Axis mer...