Book Description
* The autobiography of one of the Second World War's most controversial figures. * Explanation of the area bombing strategy. * Reveals the technological and scientific developments surrounding the Allies' aerial offensive.
Author : Arthur Harris
Publisher : Frontline Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 16,60 MB
Release : 2016-02
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781848327757
* The autobiography of one of the Second World War's most controversial figures. * Explanation of the area bombing strategy. * Reveals the technological and scientific developments surrounding the Allies' aerial offensive.
Author : Stewart Halsey Ross
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 25,86 MB
Release : 2015-10-03
Category : History
ISBN : 1476616116
The United States relied heavily on bombing to defeat the Germans and the Japanese in World War II, and air raids were touted as "precision" bombing in American propaganda. But was precision possible over cloud-covered Europe or a darkened Japanese countryside? Could the vaunted Norden optical bombsight in fact "drop bombs into pickle barrels" as advertised? Were the American aircrews well trained and well protected? How good were their airplanes? What were the results of the costly raids? This work sets suppositions against facts surrounding the United States' use of strategic bombing in World War II. Chapters cover the events leading up to World War II; the start of the war; the seers and the planners; the airplanes, bombs, bombsights, and aircrews; the planes Germany used to defend itself against American planes; the five cities (Hamburg, Dresden, Tokyo, Hiroshima, and Nagasaki) that experienced the most destruction; and the U.S. Strategic Bombing Survey of the damage done by aerial bombing. The book also probes the government's myth-building statements that supported America's view of itself as a uniquely humanitarian nation, and analyzes the role played by interservice rivalry--"battleship admirals" against "bomber generals."
Author : Martin Bowman
Publisher : Pen and Sword
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 23,29 MB
Release : 2015-05-31
Category : History
ISBN : 1783831936
This book contains fourteen stirring accounts, each conveying an authentic sense of what it was really like to fly as a member of air-crew during the various bombing operations of the Second World War. The storytellers are an eclectic mix of pilots, navigators, bomb aimers, wireless operators and gunners who flew on operations in heavy bombers. It conveys the terror of being coned by German searchlights over the target, attacks by Luftwaffe night-fighters, often catastrophic damage to aircraft and the ensuing struggle to keep the machine airborne on the return trip to base. It tells of the comradeship between the crew and the humour between them, often borne of fear. The gentle and unassuming narratives include 'Millennium'; 'One of Our Aircraft Is Missing'; Bomber's Moon; 'Bombing Berlin' 'The Ordeal Of Pilot Officer Romans DFC'; Last Man Out' operations on Whitleys and Halifaxes; Flying Officer 'X'; Stirlings; 'Rescue At Sea' 'The Incendiary Load's Alight'; 'The Night Of The Bombs' and 'The Kassel Raids of 1943' as well as BBC Broadcasts and stories by Allied war correspondents. Each of these accounts conveys the sense of purpose that these men felt in doing one of the most dangerous jobs of the war. It is a fitting tribute to those that survived and the many thousands who died in the struggle against Hitler's dreadful ambitions in Europe.
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 35,96 MB
Release : 1945
Category : Air warfare
ISBN :
Author : Colonel T. Tracey Goetz
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
Page : 59 pages
File Size : 36,22 MB
Release : 2014-08-15
Category : History
ISBN : 1782897976
With the collapse of France in 1940, American (US) and British (UK) leadership became keenly aware that the continued security of their nations required the defeat of the Axis powers, particularly Germany. The Allies chose a strategy utilizing a combination of various military actions, most notably a combined bomber offensive (CBO). The CBO would be carried out through a combination of US daylight precision and UK night area bombing. The purpose of this paper is to show why the Allies chose this strategy and evaluate its success. To accomplish this task, the paper will first describe the events that brought about the conflict and the strategy. Crowl’s Questions are used as a framework to analyze the factors that influence strategy development and adoption and will illustrate why Allied leaders chose this path. This is followed by a detailed description of the campaign. The principles of war (mass, objective, offensive, maneuver, surprise, security, simplicity, unity of command, and economy of force) are accepted as proven methods for employing forces in combat and are used to evaluate the CBO’s effectiveness The paper closes with a summary of the findings and doctrinal implications. The paper will show the Allies adopted US daylight precision and UK night area bombing based on leadership’s belief that it could most effectively reduce Germany’s means of war and hasten its earliest possible defeat. The Allies successfully achieved this objective primarily through adherence to the principles of mass, objective, offensive, and maneuver.
Author : Sir Charles Kingsley Webster
Publisher :
Page : 570 pages
File Size : 34,41 MB
Release : 1961
Category : World War, 1939-1945
ISBN :
Author : Philip Kaplan
Publisher : Casemate Publishers
Page : 648 pages
File Size : 29,1 MB
Release : 2007-03-27
Category : History
ISBN : 1783460512
For much of World War II England provided the only western European base from which the British and American air forces could take the war into Nazi-occupied Europe and Germany itself. The American Eighth and Ninth Air Forces struck enemy targets by day at great distances, often on raids of eight or nine hours duration, while the RAF flew most of its demanding missions at night.This highly illustrated book will convey what it was like for pilots, aircrew and ground crew during their wartime service. It not only takes the reader on typical USAAF and RAF raids, but it also depicts the work of the mechanics and fitters as they struggled to keep battered aircraft airworthy, how the medics coped with the countless wounded who returned from the raids and looks at where the airmen relaxed within the various bases or in the local villages and towns. It will include period and later images of the bases, the aircraft, memorials and relevant locations in Britain, France and Germany. It will be a vivid and powerful human expression of the bomber airmen's wartime experience.
Author : Robert Jackson
Publisher :
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 20,72 MB
Release : 1974
Category : History
ISBN :
Author : Noble Frankland
Publisher : Random House (NY)
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 40,73 MB
Release : 1970
Category : History
ISBN :
An illustrated history of the allied forces in charge of destroying German war machines.
Author : Hans Rumpf
Publisher :
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 32,21 MB
Release : 1963
Category : World War, 1939-1945
ISBN :