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    The Combined Bomber Offensive (CBO) was an Allied offensive of strategic bombing during World War II in Europe. The primary portion of the CBO was directed...
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  • 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...
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    priority moving between the other objectives within the Allied Combined Bomber Offensive such as to defeating the German V-weapon attacks, the destruction...
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    (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...
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  • Stormont, John W. (March 1946) [summer of 1945], AAFRH-19: The Combined Bomber Offensive; April through December 1943, Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential...
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  • 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...
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    regarding the purpose of the bombing campaign, The aim of the Combined Bomber Offensive ... should be unambiguously stated [as] the destruction of German...
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    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...
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    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...
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  • 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 objective...
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    Operation Pointblank, the code name for the part of the Allied Combined Bomber Offensive intended to cripple or destroy the German aircraft fighter strength...
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    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...
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  • Oświęcim). ^Note 1 : Part 10 of the Plan for Completion of the Combined Bomber Offensive identifies plants at both "Lutzkendorf" and "Lutzkendorf-Mücheln"...
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    engine power as a major limitation, combined with the desire for accuracy and other operational factors, bomber designs tended to be tailored to specific...
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    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...
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  • flown almost fifty bombing missions over Germany as part of the Combined Bomber Offensive since the start of the war. As Lambert nears his tour's end, he...
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    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...
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    buildup of men and materiel for Overlord, and supporting the Combined Bomber Offensive. He clashed with General Dwight D. Eisenhower over the diversion...
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    North African Fronts in 1942 and 1943, the British and American Combined Bomber Offensive began a strategy to destroy the Luftwaffe in a war of attrition...
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  • 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...
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    attack, first by RAF Bomber Command and then against the RAF and United States Army Air Forces (USAAF) in the Combined Bomber Offensive. In the early years...
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    strategic air war plans (AWPD-1 and AWPD-42) and the plan for the Combined Bomber Offensive in Europe; obtaining a base of operations for the B-29 Superfortress...
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  • air space, or over a given territory. A bomber offensive is sometimes also known as a strategic bombing offensive and was prominently used by the Allies...
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    oil plants. The British attacked 26 targets identified in the Combined Bomber Offensive. Targets included the Krupp armament works (Essen), the Nordstern...
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    constructed many airbases in East Anglia for the heavy bomber fleets of the Combined Bomber Offensive against German-occupied Europe. East Anglia was ideally...
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    period. His combat tour included participation in the Dieppe Raid, Combined Bomber Offensive, Battle of Normandy, Operation Market Garden, the Battle of the...
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    Bombing: Their Origins and Implementation in the World War II Combined Bomber Offensive." Journal of Strategic Studies, March 1995, Vol. 18 Issue 1, pp...
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    wearing down the Luftwaffe and bombing German industry" for the Combined Bomber Offensive, and to recommend instead that Crossbow be a secondary priority...
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    Anglo-American Combined Bomber Offensive (CBO). On 20 June 1941, the United States Army Air Forces (USAAF) were established as a way to combine and streamline...
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    Bombing the European Axis Powers: A Historical Digest of the Combined Bomber Offensive 1939–1945. Alabama: Air University Press, 2006, page 518, 523...
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