Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The bombing of WieluĊ, one of the first military acts of World War II and the first major act of bombing, was carried out on a town that had little to no military value. [76] Similarly, the bombing of Frampol has been described as an experiment to test the German tactics and weapons effectiveness.
American Consolidated B-24 Liberator bombers attacking a Romanian oil refinery, May 1944. The United States Strategic Bombing Survey (USSBS) was a written report created by a board of experts assembled to produce an impartial assessment of the effects of the Anglo-American strategic bombing of Nazi Germany during the European theatre of World War II.
Among the dead cities: The history and moral legacy of the WWII bombing of civilians in Germany and Japan (Bloomsbury Publishing USA, 2009) Griffith, Charles. The quest: Haywood Hansell and American strategic bombing in World War II (1999) online edition; Hansell, Jr., Haywood S. Air Plan That Defeated Hitler (1980) online version; Kennett, Lee B.
A war diary is a regularly updated official record kept by military units of their activities during wartime. The purpose of these diaries is to both record information which can later be used by the military to improve its training and tactics as well as to generate a detailed record of units' activities for future use by historians.
The bombing of Dresden was a joint British and American aerial bombing attack on the city of Dresden, the capital of the German state of Saxony, during World War II. In four raids between 13 and 15 February 1945, 772 heavy bombers of the Royal Air Force (RAF) and 527 of the United States Army Air Forces (USAAF) dropped more than 3,900 tons ...
The Baedeker Blitz or Baedeker raids was a series of bombing raids in April and May 1942 by the German Luftwaffe on English cities during World War II.The name derives from Baedeker, a series of German tourist guide books, including detailed maps, which were used to select targets for bombing.
Boeing B-29 Superfortress long-range strategic bombers releasing their payloads during the Burma campaign in 1945.The B-29 was the largest aircraft to have a significant operational role in World War II and remains the only aircraft in history to have ever used a nuclear weapon in combat.
The Pointblank directive of 14 June 1943 ordered RAF Bomber Command and the U.S. Eighth Air Force to bomb specific targets such as aircraft factories, and the order was confirmed when Allied leaders met at the Quebec Conference in August 1943. Up to that point, the RAF and USAAF had mostly been attacking the German industry in their own way ...