The Heavy Bomber Offensive Of Wwii

Author : Martin W. Bowman
Publisher : Pen and Sword
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2015-05-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781473861138

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The Heavy Bomber Offensive of WWII by Martin W. Bowman Pdf

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 : Arthur Harris
Publisher : Pen and Sword
Page : 381 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2005-03-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781473812604

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Bomber Offensive by Arthur Harris Pdf

The Royal Air Force commander of bombing operations during WWII offers an insider’s view of his legendary career in this classic military memoir. Marshal of the Royal Air Force Sir Arthur “Bomber” Harris remains a controversial figure in the history of the RAF. While many vilify him for his merciless carpet bombing of Germany, others believe that his contributions to Allied victory are grossly undervalued. In Bomber Offensive, Harris candidly describes how he led the men of Bomber Command in the face of appalling casualties, his fierce disagreements with higher authority, and the complicated relationship he had with Winston Churchill. Written soon after the close of the Second World War, Harris's memoirs reveals the man behind the Allied bombing offensive that destroyed the Nazi war machine, but also many beautiful and historic cities, such as Dresden. His defense of these total war tactics stands in stark contrast to modern military policy, which considers such indiscriminate killing a war crime.

Author : Noble Frankland
Publisher : Random House (NY)
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105021833004

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Bomber Offensive by Noble Frankland Pdf

An illustrated history of the allied forces in charge of destroying German war machines.

Author : An Official History
Publisher : Air World
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2020-12-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781526790880

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Bomber Command's War Against Germany by An Official History Pdf

“The internal RAF analysis of the different phases of the air war and what lessons could be learnt from those campaigns.” —Royal Aeronautical Society website When the RAF’s Bomber Command analyzed the results of their precision bombing efforts during the early years of World War II, a growing body of evidence indicated that the great “knockout” blow expected to be delivered from the air was a fantasy. It would only be through a prolonged campaign of attrition that the enemy could be worn down to such a degree that morale, the means of production and the infrastructure of the enemy would be degraded to the point where its fighting ability was crippled. The result of this assessment was a change of policy from precision bombing of carefully identified key installations, to area bombing with the declared intent of striking at the homes of the German workers, the factories where they worked regardless of the nature of such establishments or of the civilian casualties that would be the inevitable consequence. In compiling this official analysis of the effectiveness of the RAF’s strategic bombing campaign, the author was granted unrestricted access to Air Ministry, Cabinet and other relevant departmental documents that were maintained for internal government use, enabling him to gain a complete and unbiased assessment of the contribution made by Bomber Command to the defeat of Germany. The conclusion he draws fully justifies the decisions taken, by both Britain and the USA, to bomb the German people into surrender.

Author : Anthony Verrier
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Bombardment
ISBN : STANFORD:36105033701041

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The Bomber Offensive by Anthony Verrier Pdf

Author : Colonel T. Tracey Goetz
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2014-08-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781782897972

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Determination And Effectiveness Of Wwii Strategic Bombing Strategy by Colonel T. Tracey Goetz Pdf

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 : Philip Kaplan,Jack Currie
Publisher : Casemate Publishers
Page : 648 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2007-03-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9781783460519

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Night & Day Bomber Offensive by Philip Kaplan,Jack Currie Pdf

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 : Alan Levine
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1992-07-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9780313065606

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The Strategic Bombing of Germany, 1940-1945 by Alan Levine Pdf

This book is the only full-scale account of the strategic air offensive against Germany published in the last twenty years, and is the only one that treats the British and the Americans with parity. Much of what Levine writes about British operations will be unfamiliar to American readers. He has stressed the importance of winning air superiority and the role of escort fighters in strategic bombing, and has given more attention to the German side than most writers on air warfare have. Levine gets past a simple account of what we did to them and describes the target systems and German countermeasures in detail, providing exact yet dramatic accounts of the great bomber operations--the Ruhr dams, Ploesti, and Regensburg and Schweinfurt. The book is broad-guaged, touching many matters, from the development of bombing doctrine before the war to the technical development of the Luftwaffe and the RAF, jets and V-weapons, to the role of the heavy bombers in supporting land and sea operations. Levine stresses the impact of bombing on the war, and generally endorses the strategic air campaign as worthwhile and effective. But he concludes that many mistakes were made by the Allies--both the British and the Americans--in tactics, the development of equipment, and in the selection of targets. Levine sees strategic bombing as a powerful tool that was often misused, particularly when the doctrine of area bombing flourished. Scholars, students, and buffs interested in World War II and/or the history of aviation will find this study of great interest.

Author : British Bombing Survey Unit
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : History
ISBN : 0714647225

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The Strategic Air War Against Germany, 1939-1945 by British Bombing Survey Unit Pdf

At the close of the Second World War both the RAF and the United States Army Air Forces sent teams of investigators to the continent of Europe to try and assess the effectiveness of Allied strategic bombing. The British Survey was originally classified and is published here for the first time. By combining the original Report and an analysis of its strengths and weaknesses, together with a short history of the genesis of the British Survey, this work is an important contribution to the continuing historical debate over the effects of the strategic bombing offensive in the Second World War.

Author : Charles Messenger
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015008585617

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"Bomber" Harris and the Strategic Bombing Offensive, 1939-1945 by Charles Messenger Pdf

Bogen beskriver de Allieredes strategiske bombeangreb på Nazityskland. "Bomber" Harris, luftmarskal Sir Arthur Harris, leder af Bomberkommandoen, RAF Bomber Command spillede en vigtig rolle i udformningen af de allieredes strategiske planlægning under 2. Verdenskrig som resulterede i de massive bombninger af tyske byer. Det betød voldsomme og omfattende ødelæggelser - og massemord på den tyske civilbefolkning. Harris blev en del kritiseret for for mange "overflødige" bombemissioner med unødvendige tab af fly og flybesætninger.

Author : R. Cargill Hall
Publisher : U.S. Government Printing Office
Page : 688 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : UOM:39015043104259

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Case Studies in Strategic Bombardment by R. Cargill Hall Pdf

Author : Sir Charles Kingsley Webster,Noble Frankland
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1961
Category : World War, 1939-1945
ISBN : UOM:39015066445837

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The Strategic Air Offensive Against Germany by Sir Charles Kingsley Webster,Noble Frankland Pdf

Author : Hans Rumpf
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1963
Category : World War, 1939-1945
ISBN : IND:32000000134462

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The Bombing of Germany by Hans Rumpf Pdf

Author : Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur Travers Harris
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781136790720

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Despatch on War Operations by Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur Travers Harris Pdf

This is the first time that Sir Arthur Bomber' Harris's own papers covering his three and a half years at Bomber Command have been published and made available to the general public. The book also contains an introduction by Sebastian Cox, an Air Staff Memorandum written immediately after the war and a revisionist German viewpoint by Horst Boog. It stands as a landmark in the controversy that still rages over the man who led Bomber Command's campaign in the Second World War.

Author : Robert Jackson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015002288978

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Storm from the Skies by Robert Jackson Pdf