Download or read book The Strategic Air Offensive Against Germany written by Sir Charles Kingsley Webster and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 570 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Strategic Air Offensive Against Germany written by Sir Charles Kingsley Webster and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Strategic Air Offensive Against Germany Victory written by Sir Charles Kingsley Webster and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Strategic Air Offensive Against Germany 1939 1945 written by Charles Kingsley Webster and published by Naval & Military Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No aspect of the Second World War has become more controversial in recent years than Britain s Strategic Air Offensive against Germany. Argument has raged over both the morality of mass bombing of heavily populated cities; over its effectiveness in seriously impairing Germany s war effort and over the horrendous casualty rates caused - both to civilians on the ground, and to the aircrew of RAF Bomber Command who lost some 52,000 men - a higher attrition rate than any other branch of the armed services. In assessing the campaign the official British history of the offensive, of which this is the fourth and final volume, is indispensible. This book contains the background documents - some highly secret - on which the previous narratives of the campaign are based. There are chapters on radar - that war-winning British invention - on navigational aids; on bombs and bombsights and on post-war British and US surveys into the effectiveness of their devastating attacks. There are minutes, mem oranda, operational orders and reports from the key figures involved in directing the air war: Sir Arthur B omber Harris himself; Sir John Dill, Sir Charles Portal and from the father of the RAF, Lord Trenchard. There are also important papers from the other side of the hill - the Germans, including police reports on the firestorm which swept away the port of Hamburg; and personal reports from Armaments MInister Albert Speer to Hitler on the results of the RAF blitz on German oil and fuel production in June 1944. The book also contains fascinating facts and figures on losses to aircrew, tonnage of bombs dropped, the RAF s order of battle and estimates of damage done and civilian casualties. Altogether this essential book gives the hard facts on which any conclusions about Britain s air offensive must ultimately be based.
Download or read book The Strategic Air Offensive Against Germany written by Charles Webster and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Strategic Air Offensive Against Germany written by Sir Charles Webster Staff and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: VOLUME I: PREPARATION. PARTS 1, 2 AND 3. First of four volumes of the official history of the Second World War on the ever-controversial subject of Bomber Command s strategic air offensive against German cities. This takes the story up to the beginning of 1943. Volume II: Endeavour. Part 4 The second of four volumes of Britain s official history of the Second World War devoted to Bomber Command s air offensive against Germany. The book examines Anglo-American conflict in 1943 over whether to concentrate on precision or general bombing, and the Dambusters raid. VOLUME III: VICTORY. PART 5 The official history of the final year of the strategic air offensive against Germany. Contains an assessment of the controversial bombing of Dresden and accounts of the clashes among the allied air chiefs over their aims. VOLUME IV. Annexes and Appendices
Download or read book Battle Over the Reich written by Alfred Price and published by Classic Publications. This book was released on 2005 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Completely revised, expanded and updated edition of this classic 1973 work. The campaign is analysed from RAF, USAAF and Luftwaffe viewpoints, with in-depth assessment of daylight and nocturnal operations, aircraft weapons, radar and ground defence.
Download or read book The Strategic Air Offensive Against Germany 1939 1945 written by Sir Charles Webster and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Strategic Air Offensive Against Germany written by Senior Research Fellow Charles Webster and published by . This book was released on 2006-05-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The theme of this first of four volumes of the official British history of the Second World War devoted to the RAF s strategic bomber offensive against Germany is in its sub-title Preparation . Beginning with the lessons learned from air bombing in its infancy during the Great War, the authors divide their book into three parts: strategy; operations; appreciations and results. No aspect of Britain s role in the war, as the authors acknowledge in their preface, has been and remains more controversial than the air war against German cities. These books, the product of ten years research, are an essential repository of facts, based on official documents - then still secret - in the archives of the Cabinet Office, the Air Ministry and Bomber Command. Other papers on which this account is based include the official despatches of the Chief of Bomber Command, Sir Arthur Harris, the writings and interrogations of Germany s armaments minister, Albert Speer, and papers from the Air Historical Branch. In addition to written sources, the authors consulted many of the air chiefs, scientists and other officials who directed and led the offensive. - including those of the USAF. From an initial reluctance to bomb German forests because they were private property, Britain s bombing offensive, one of the few weapons available to it in the dark early days of the war, escalated after the battles of France and Britain and the opening of the Luftwaffe s Blitz on Britain, from precision targets to mass area bombing of cities. This book takes the story up to the opening of 1943 with the first thousand bomber raids, the creation of the Pathfinder Force, and the beginning of daylight bombing. The narrative is accompanied by diagrams, six maps and 20 photos of the leading figures behind the offensive, the aircraft involved, and before and after pictures of the raids and their results. This calm, dispassionate book is essential reading for all who are interested in a subject which remains burningly relevant in the 21st century.
Download or read book The Strategic Air Offensive Against Germany 1939 1945 Vol 2 Endeavour written by Sir Charles Kingsley Webster and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Strategic Air Offensive Against Germany written by Charles Webster and published by . This book was released on 1994-01-01 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Strategic Air Offensive Against Germany 1939 1945 Vol 4 Annexes and Appendices written by Sir Charles Kingsley Webster and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Strategic Air Offensive Against Germany 1939 1945 Atlas written by and published by . This book was released on 2024-04-26 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ever-controversial subject of Bomber Command's strategic air offensive against German cities, and industrial targets, in a series of 35 maps extracted form the four volume official history of the air offensive against Germany. Britain's bombing offensive, one of the few weapons available to it in the dark early days of the war, escalated after the battles of France and Britain and the opening of the Luftwaffe's Blitz on Britain, from precision targets to mass area bombing of cities. This is a very useful map collection that should be part of every serious WW2 aviation scholar's collection.
Download or read book The Strategic Air Offensive Against Germany Preparation pt 1 3 written by Sir Charles Kingsley Webster and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 588 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Strategic Bombing of Germany 1940 1945 written by Alan Levine and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 1992-07-22 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book The Strategic Air War Against Germany and Japan A Memoir written by Major General Haywood S. Hansell Jr. USAF and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2015-11-06 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book seeks to recount the air experience and development before World War II, to describe the objectives, plans and effects of strategic air warfare in Europe and in the Pacific, and to offer criticism, opinion, and lessons of that great conflict. MAJOR GENERAL HAYWOOD S. HANSELL, JR., USAF (Retired), is a native of Atlanta, Georgia. A graduate of Georgia Institute of Technology (1924), he entered the U.S. Army Air Corps in 1928. Trained as a fighter pilot, he flew in the Air Corps Aerobatic and Demonstration Team (1932) led by Captain Claire Chennault. In the mid-1930s Hansell specialized in strategic bombardment, teaching tactics and doctrine at the Air Corps Tactical School from 1935 to 1938. Just prior to World War II, he went to Army Air Forces Headquarters where he helped draft the fundamental war requirements plan for the service. In 1942 he became Commanding General, Third Bombardment Wing (B-26s), Eighth Air Force, in the European Theater. Subsequently General Hansell commanded the First Bombardment Division (B-17s), Eighth Air Force, and in 1944-45 the XXI Bomber Command (B-29s), Twentieth Air Force, in the Pacific. The latter command was one of only two long-range B-29 commands conducting strategic air warfare against Japan. In 1946 he retired, suffering from a physical disability. During the Korean War (1950-53), the Chief of Staff, U.S. Air Force recalled him to active duty, assigning him as Chief, Military Assistance Program Headquarters, USAF, and subsequently as Air Member Review Board, Weapons Systems Evaluation Group, reporting to the Assistant Secretary of Defense, Research and Development and to the Joint Chiefs of Staff. After four years as a senior program manager and advisor, General Hansell retired again. He is the author of The Air Plan That Defeated Hitler (1972) and Strategic Air War Against Japan (1980).
