The Plan for Completion of [the] Combined Bomber Offensive was a strategic bombing recommendation made by HQ USSTAF for the Allies of World War II to... 6 KB (773 words) - 22:42, 4 April 2024 |
(1939–1941), as well as one made up of Argentinean nationals. The combined bomber offensive was born out of the need to strike back at Germany during the... 135 KB (18,621 words) - 20:50, 6 May 2024 |
priority moving between the other objectives within the Allied Combined Bomber Offensive such as to defeating the German V-weapon attacks, the destruction... 26 KB (2,587 words) - 23:43, 5 April 2024 |
Stormont, John W. (March 1946) [summer of 1945], AAFRH-19: The Combined Bomber Offensive; April through December 1943, Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential... 10 KB (1,176 words) - 03:13, 8 April 2024 |
December 1974 and began operations on 1 April 1975 Combined Bomber Offensive, an Anglo-American offensive of strategic bombing during World War II in Europe... 1 KB (209 words) - 21:25, 22 March 2024 |
Arthur Harris (redirect from Arthur "Bomber" Harris) regarding the purpose of the bombing campaign, The aim of the Combined Bomber Offensive ... should be unambiguously stated [as] the destruction of German... 58 KB (6,693 words) - 10:59, 4 May 2024 |
the cover of darkness. In keeping with the plans of the Allied Combined Bomber Offensive, the American B-17 Flying Fortress and B-24 Liberators operating... 42 KB (5,874 words) - 01:12, 9 May 2024 |
was depleted in the battles of attrition forced on him by the Combined Bomber Offensive. By mid-1944, Sperrle's air fleet had been reduced to impotence... 113 KB (15,366 words) - 21:30, 15 March 2024 |
Big Week (section USAAF bomber sorties) United States Army Air Forces and RAF Bomber Command from 20 to 25 February 1944, as part of the Combined Bomber Offensive against Nazi Germany. The planners... 48 KB (3,846 words) - 02:03, 29 April 2024 |
and necessity of his methods, and he urged that: the aim of the Combined Bomber Offensive...should be unambiguously stated [as] the destruction of German... 190 KB (22,411 words) - 07:20, 9 May 2024 |
Carpet bombing (redirect from Carpet bomber) they were not ready to do. Therefore a bombing campaign - the Combined Bomber Offensive - following the Casablanca directive to the Allied air forces... 27 KB (3,309 words) - 23:36, 20 April 2024 |
engine power as a major limitation, combined with the desire for accuracy and other operational factors, bomber designs tended to be tailored to specific... 21 KB (2,672 words) - 05:28, 4 May 2024 |
Oświęcim). ^Note 1 : Part 10 of the Plan for Completion of the Combined Bomber Offensive identifies plants at both "Lutzkendorf" and "Lutzkendorf-Mücheln"... 14 KB (812 words) - 20:02, 8 December 2023 |
East Anglia (redirect from East Anglia Combined Authority) constructed many airbases in East Anglia for the heavy bomber fleets of the Combined Bomber Offensive against German-occupied Europe. East Anglia was ideally... 28 KB (3,011 words) - 15:30, 15 April 2024 |
Bombing the European Axis Powers: A Historical Digest of the Combined Bomber Offensive 1939–1945. Alabama: Air University Press, 2006, page 518, 523... 10 KB (915 words) - 09:32, 22 February 2024 |
Eighth Air Force (redirect from VIII Bomber Command) June 1943 it was the daylight bombing part of the Combined Bomber Offensive against Germany. VIII Bomber Command was redesignated as Eighth Air Force on... 89 KB (10,142 words) - 01:07, 9 May 2024 |
problems such as excessive barrel wear, not to mention the Allied Combined Bomber Offensive campaign against German industry. At the end of the war only 5... 7 KB (729 words) - 18:37, 30 November 2023 |
it was agreed RAF Bomber Command operations against Germany would be reinforced by the USAAF in a Combined Operations Offensive plan called Operation... 132 KB (16,304 words) - 17:38, 9 May 2024 |
States Army Air Forces (USAAF) aerial bombardment during the 1943 Combined Bomber Offensive of World War II. Air raids were conducted on six of seven days... 10 KB (993 words) - 07:16, 29 February 2024 |
Battle of the Ruhr (section Bomber Command, 1942) oil plants. The British attacked 26 targets identified in the Combined Bomber Offensive. Targets included the Krupp armament works (Essen), the Nordstern... 70 KB (7,033 words) - 15:08, 2 January 2024 |
Bombing: Their Origins and Implementation in the World War II Combined Bomber Offensive." Journal of Strategic Studies, March 1995, Vol. 18 Issue 1, pp... 189 KB (15,868 words) - 00:37, 10 May 2024 |
Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress (redirect from B-17 bomber) American and British bomber commands were organized at the Casablanca Conference in January 1943. The resulting "Combined Bomber Offensive" weakened the Wehrmacht... 146 KB (16,948 words) - 17:35, 9 May 2024 |
buildup of men and materiel for Overlord, and supporting the Combined Bomber Offensive. He clashed with General Dwight D. Eisenhower over the diversion... 90 KB (10,623 words) - 05:12, 15 April 2024 |