Download or read book The results of bombing Frankfurt am Main in World War II written by Markus Lenz and published by . This book was released on 2017-03-30 with total page 135 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This electronic book is like a world premiere because it contains a special sightseeing tour on the basis of pre-war, post-war and actual photographs of Frankfurt am Main, Germany. The author, Markus Lenz, explored and analyzed the results of bombing Frankfurt am Main in World War II. It was the time, when the Monuments Men came to Nazi-Germany, immediately after the European Theatre of World War II, also known as the Second European War. In Volume One of this book the reports of the American Commission for the Protection and Salvage of Artistic and Historic Monuments in War Areas, also known as the Roberts Commission, are evaluated. 115 photographs of twenty buildings, streets, monuments and churches in Frankfurt am Main are presented inside this electronic book.
Download or read book To Destroy A City written by Herman Knell and published by Da Capo Press. This book was released on 2009-06-16 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Herman Knell was nineteen and living in Würtzburg in March of 1945 when hundreds of Allied planes arrived overhead, unleashing a torrent of bombs on the city. Würtzburg's tightly packed medieval housing exploded in a firestorm, killing six thousand people in one night and destroying 92 percent of the city's structures. Despite the fact that Würtzburg had no strategic value, the city emerged from World War II second only to Dresden in material destruction inflicted from the air. The experience led Knell to years of research on the history, development, and effects of the strategy of area bombing.To Destroy a City is the result of the author's long and unrelenting investigation. His analysis of this form of warfare, which reached its zenith during World War II, covers the history and the development of wide-area bombing since 1914, examines its wartime effectiveness and the consequences. But the extra dimension that Knell's book offers is his firsthand experience of the tension, fear, tentative defiance, and, finally, utter catastrophe of being on the receiving end of overwhelming air power. For Americans, who fortunately did not experience bombing during the war, this is essential reading.
Download or read book The Effects of Strategic Bombing on the German War Economy written by United States Strategic Bombing Survey and published by . This book was released on 1945 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Effects of Strategic Bombing on German Morale written by United States Strategic Bombing Survey and published by . This book was released on 1947 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Death from the Skies written by Dietmar Süss and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2014-02-06 with total page 2499 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The German 'Blitz' that followed the Battle of Britain killed tens of thousands and laid waste to large areas of many British cities. And although the destruction of 1940-1 was never repeated on the same scale, fears that Hitler possessed a secret weapon of mass destruction never entirely died, and were partially realized in the VI and V2 raids of 1944-5. The British and American response to the 'Blitz', especially from 1943 onwards, was massive and incomparably more devastating - with apocalyptic consequences for German cities such as Hamburg, Dresden, and Berlin, to name but the most prominent. In this ground-breaking new book, German historian Dietmar Süss investigates the effects of the bombing on both Britain and Nazi Germany, showing how these two very different societies sought to withstand the onslaught and keep up morale amidst the material devastation and psychological trauma that was visited upon them. And, as he reflects in the conclusion, this is not a story that is safely confined to the past: the debate over the rights and the wrongs of the mass bombing of British and German cities during World War II remains a highly emotional subject even today.
Download or read book The Bombing of Germany written by Hans Rumpf and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inspector general of fire prevention for Germany during World War 2 joins the Allies who question the bombing of enemy cities.
Download or read book The Reich Wreckers An Analysis Of The 306th Bomb Group During World War II written by Major Charles J. Westgate III and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2015-11-06 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paper presents an analysis of the 306th Bomb Group’s contributions during World War II. Rather than providing a simple recounting of the various dates and accomplishments, the paper analyzes some of the key indicators and statistics of the group’s performance. In particular, the paper focuses on comparing aircraft losses and bombing results of the 306th with the Eighth Air Force’s. The analysis also examined other areas, such as: mission aborts, enemy aircraft claimed destroyed, weather conditions over target, bombing methods used, presence of fighter escorts, and strength of enemy air defenses (enemy fighter aircraft and flak). The purpose of the analysis was to gain a better understanding of the group’s overall performance within the bigger scope of the Eighth Air Force’s war effort. The analysis was conducted in three steps. First, the archives of the Air Force Historical Research Agency (AFHRA) were searched for statistics on the 306th. Next, similar statistics were collected for the Eighth Air Force. Finally, the data for the two units was analyzed and compared, to aid in determining conclusions. To facilitate the last step of the research, the air war was divided into four periods. The goals and objectives for each period were used as criteria to grade the unit’s effectiveness. In general, the study concluded that the 306th Bomb Group was a “typical” B-17 bomber group in World War II. When comparing the various statistics and graphs provide in this paper, we see that in most cases there was little difference in the data for the 306th and the Eighth Air Force. However, the statistics do not tell the whole story. As one of the cadre groups of the Eighth Air Force, many of the improvements and lessons learned during the early period of the war were at the expense of the 306th. These early lessons and experiments were important and led to the improvements that saved many lives and brought an end to the war.
Download or read book Fire and Fury written by Randall Hansen and published by Anchor Canada. This book was released on 2009-09-15 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: National Bestseller An enlightening and utterly convincing re-examination of the allied aerial bombing campaign and of civilian German suffering during World War II–an essential addition to our understanding of world history. During the Second World War, Allied air forces dropped nearly two million tons of bombs on Germany, destroying some 60 cities, killing more than half a million German citizens, and leaving 80,000 pilots dead. Much of the bombing was carried out against the expressed demands of the Allied military leadership. Hundreds of thousands of people died needlessly. Focusing on the crucial period from 1942 to 1945, and using a compelling narrative approach, Fire and Fury tells the story of the American and British bombing campaign through the eyes of those involved: military and civilian command in America, Britain, and Germany, aircrew in the sky, and civilians on the ground. Acclaimed historian Randall Hansen shows that the Commander-in-Chief of Bomber Command, Arthur Harris, was wedded to an outdated strategy whose success had never been proven; how area bombing not only failed to win the war, it probably prolonged it; and that the US campaign, which was driven by a particularly American fusion of optimism and morality, played an important and largely unrecognized role in delivering Allied victory.
Download or read book World War Ii Strategic Bombing of Germany written by Source Wikipedia and published by Booksllc.Net. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 63. Chapters: Battle of Berlin (air), Bombings of Heilbronn in World War II, Bombing of Berlin in World War II, Bombing of Braunschweig in World War II, Bombing of Bremen in World War II, Bombing of Cologne in World War II, Bombing of Darmstadt in World War II, Bombing of Dresden in World War II, Bombing of Duisburg in World War II, Bombing of Frankfurt am Main in World War II, Bombing of Hamburg in World War II, Bombing of Hanau in World War II, Bombing of Kassel in World War II, Bombing of Leipzig in World War II, Bombing of Nordhausen in World War II, Bombing of Pforzheim in World War II, Bombing of Schwabisch Hall in World War II, Bombing of Stuttgart in World War II, Bombing of Ulm in World War II, Bombing of Wiener Neustadt in World War II, Kammhuber Line, Operation Hurricane (1944), Second Raid on Schweinfurt. Excerpt: The Bombing of Dresden was a military attack on the city of Dresden, the capital of the German state of Saxony, that took place in the final months of the Second World War. In four raids between 13 and 15 February 1945, 722 heavy bombers of the British Royal Air Force (RAF) and 527 of the United States Army Air Forces (USAAF) dropped more than 3,900 tons of high-explosive bombs and incendiary devices on the city. The resulting firestorm destroyed fifteen square miles (39 square kilometres) of the city centre and caused tens of thousands of civilian casualties. Post-war discussion of whether or not the attacks were justified has led to the bombing becoming one of the moral causes celebres of the Second World War. A 1953 United States Air Force report defended the operation as the justified bombing of a military and industrial target, which was a major rail transportation and communication centre, housing 110 factories and 50,000 workers in support of the German war effort. However, several researchers have...
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 World War Ii Strategic Bombing Lists written by Source Wikipedia and published by Booksllc.Net. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 26. Chapters: Big Week, Blockhaus d'Eperlecques, Bombing of Essen in World War II, Bombing of Frankfurt am Main in World War II, Bombing of Friedrichshafen in World War II, Bombing of Innsbruck in World War II, Bombing of Ludwigshafen and Oppau in World War II, Bombing of Wurzburg in World War II, Fortress of Mimoyecques. Excerpt: The Blockhaus d'Eperlecques (English: Bunker of Eperlecques, also referred to as "the Watten bunker" or simply "Watten") is a Second World War bunker or blockhaus, now part of a museum, near Saint-Omer in the Pas-de-Calais region of northeastern France. The bunker, built by Nazi Germany under the codename Kraftwerk Nord West (KNW, or Powerplant Northwest in English) between March 1943 and July 1944, was originally intended to be a launching facility for the V-2 (A-4) ballistic missile. It was designed to accommodate over 100 missiles at a time and to launch up to 36 daily. The facility would have incorporated a liquid oxygen factory and a bomb-proof train station to allow missiles and supplies to be delivered from production facilities in Germany. It was constructed with the aid of 2,000 slave workers recruited from concentration and prisoner of war camps, as well as forcibly conscripted Frenchmen. The bunker was never completed due to repeated bombing by the British and United States air forces as part of operations against the German rockets. The attacks caused substantial damage and rendered it unusable for its original purpose. Part of the bunker was subsequently completed for use as a liquid oxygen factory. It was captured by Allied forces at the start of September 1944, though its true purpose was not discovered by the Allies until after the war. V-2s were instead launched from mobile batteries which were far less vulnerable to aerial attacks. Today, the bunker is preserved as part of a...
Download or read book The Effect of Bombing on Health and Medical Care in Germany written by United States Strategic Bombing Survey and published by . This book was released on 1947 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An attempt to determine the effect of bombing upon the willingness and capacity of German civilians to give full support to the war effort.
Download or read book Fire and Fury written by Randall Hansen and published by Doubleday of Canada. This book was released on 2008 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Delivers the argument that the bombing of Germany by the Allied forces in the Second World War did not only fail to win the war, but in fact prolonged it; discusses the United States campaign which played an important and largely unrecognized role in delivering an Allied victory; and re-examines the suffering of the German population during World War II.
Download or read book Strategic Bombing of German Cities during World War II its Impact on City Growth written by and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Ethics and Airpower in World War II written by Stephen A. Garrett and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 1996 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book analyzes the attitudes that various people and groups in Britain took toward area bombing, giving particular attention to the small band of dissenters. At the same time the book offers its own moral critique of area bombing, not just on traditional ethical grounds but also in terms of its dubious military rationale.
Download or read book The Strategic Bombing of Germany in World War II written by Kenneth P. Werrell and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Fire written by Jörg Friedrich and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the final phase of the World War II, the Allies launched a bombing campaign that inflicted unprecedented destruction on Germany. This work attempts to document life under the Allied bombing, and renders the annihilation of cities such as Dresden.
