Consider the Strategic Bombing Offensive of the Allied Forces against Hitler-Germany from 1939-1945. How efficient was the Strategic Bombing Offensive and how significant was this campaign for the final victory over (eBook, PDF)
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Essay from the year 2003 in the subject History of Germany - National Socialism, World War II, grade: 2, University of Westminster (School of Social Science, Humanities & Languages), course: Total War: A Military History of the Second World War 1939-1945, language: English, abstract: The Strategic Bombing Offensive of the Allied Forces was one of the great military operations against Hitler-Germany. Despite of the meaning of the Strategic Bombing Offensive its significance and efficiency to the final victory over Hitler-Germany was always a topic of controversy. This controversy about the sign...
Essay from the year 2003 in the subject History of Germany - National Socialism, World War II, grade: 2, University of Westminster (School of Social Science, Humanities & Languages), course: Total War: A Military History of the Second World War 1939-1945, language: English, abstract: The Strategic Bombing Offensive of the Allied Forces was one of the great military operations against Hitler-Germany. Despite of the meaning of the Strategic Bombing Offensive its significance and efficiency to the final victory over Hitler-Germany was always a topic of controversy. This controversy about the significance and efficiency of the Strategic Bombing Offensive to the final victory over Hitler-Germany took not just place under the contemporaries of the Second World War as Winston Churchill and his military advisers. This controversy is still alive, eg in the argumentations of historians as Richard Overy 1 and Noble Frankland 2 . In the following essay will be considered the efforts and results of the Strategic Bombing Offensive from 1939 to 1945. It will be discussed the efficiency of the Allied bombing to conclude finally the significance of the Strategic Bombing Offensive to the victory over Hilter-Germany. For this purpose shall be considered various primary sources as the Butt Report, the Singleton Report and the British and American surveys about the Strategic Bombing Offensive. Beside own points of view, shall be opposed the arguments of Richard Overy and Noble Frankland, the two opinion leaders of this historical subject. The Strategic Bombing Offensive is to understand as the strategic planning's and operations of the Bomber Command of the Royal Air Force against the Hitler-Germany between 1939 and 1945. Since 1943, the entry of the US 8th Air Force and later the US 25th Air Force in the Strategic Bombing Offensive is this operation as well known as Combined Bombing Offensive. The Strategic Bombing Offensive was "aimed at destroying an enemy's war capacity through destroying war production" 3 but also aimed w ere the infrastructure and the moral of the German population. The first considerations about a strategic bombing war goes back to the First World War, however this topic went to a real issue in late 1937 when the British Bomber Command got the order to plan the destruction of the economy of its most potential enemy, Hitler-Germany. Despite of this effort, virtually less was done as the war broke out in September 1939. The Bomber Command possessed about 488 light bombers, which did not fulfill the needs. Based on the lack of range and carrying capacity of bombs the demands of a realistic destruction of Germany were not practical. [...]
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