By April 1945 the allied strategic air forces had largely switched to attacks in support of the ground forces. On the 14th and 15th of April the...
Oil was the RAF's number 1 priority target for most of 1940. It didn't achieve much. Oil bombing was very successful in 1944. It wouldn't have...
Germany was a continental land based power. The UK and US were not. It's fairly natural that doctrine evolved differently. The Luftwaffe believed...
From the Commonwealth War Graves Commission: http://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/3145633/JOHNSON,%20ALFRED%20WILLIAM...
The first German bombs to hit the London area were in June 1940. They fell on open ground on the outskirts of the city and there were no...
Spitfires from the MK V onwards had a mounting point for a drop tank under the fuselage. There were 4 sizes of "slipper" tanks - 30, 45, 90 and...
The British Bomber Survey Unit compiled a report post war. Their answer was about 7% of the war effort went to Bomber Command. That includes the...
What Harris did doesn't fit the definition. Especially considering existing international law allowed such action in the closest analogue, naval...
A criminal is someone who breaks a law. What law did Harris break? On the contrary, the lesson the British took from German attacks was that...
But it wasn't simply to get revenge. The British found that German area bombing did much more damage to industrial production than German attempts...
They certainly weren't war crimes. The laws of war said almost nothing about aerial bombing. They allowed bombardment by land and naval forces...
German armament production lagged well behind planned production. According to Speer bombing meant a loss of about 30% of production in 1943/1944....
On the contrary, he learned that area bombing cities was more effective than precision bombing of factories. That's the lesson the British took...
Hardly fair to blame Harris. When he became head of Bomber Command the Luftwaffe had already killed over 40,000 civilians in Britain, along with...
It's typical of the stuff put out by neo-nazis. It seeks to equate the holocaust and bombing of Germany to make out that Germany was no worse than...
The USAAF also area bombed area targets, although later on they went to great lengths to deny it. As soon as they got their first ground mapping...
You could argue the Hague conventions on land and naval bombardment should have been applied to aerial bombardment as well. However, the Hague...
The British Bombing Survey Unit report says the Lancaster took 9.5 man months of work per 1,000 lbs of bombs dropped. The Mosquito took 16 man...
The common perception is that all BC did was area bombing, but in fact 45% of Bomber Command's tonnage went on area bombing.
Try this: http://www.ifz-muenchen.de/heftarchiv/1956_2.pdf