This playlist is Lord HardThrasher’s series on the bomber war over Europe in the Second World War, covering RAF Bomber Command, the USAAF, strategic bombing, bombing accuracy, the Butt Report, the Norden bombsight, Hamburg, Dresden, area bombing, precision bombing, and the moral and military arguments around the Allied bombing campaign. It asks whether strategic bombing worked, why early bombing failed so badly, how Bomber Command improved, what the Americans and British got right and wrong, and why the bomber offensive remains one of the most controversial parts of the war.
Curated by: HardThrasher (15 videos)
Bomber Command in 1943 part 1 - this is the background and build up, the aircraft, the founding of pathfidner force and the mechanics behind the mass use of incendiaries Part 2 is here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3H5Oef9RclM Join the Hellfire Club here! - patreon.com/LordHardThrasher Buy Merch here! - https://hardthrasher-shop.fourthwall.com/en-gbp Email me here! – lordhardthrasher@gmail.com Shout at my Socials here ! – Twitter @hardthrashe Bluesky @lordhardthrasher.bsky.social Insta - https://www.instagram.com/lordhardthrasher/?hl=en TikTok - @lordhardthrasher References from the video below i Battle of the Beams, Tom Whipple, Penguin , 2003, p.209 ii The Battle of the Beams, Whipple, Penguin, 2003, p.213 iii The Bombing War, Overy, Penguin, 2012, p.345 iv The Pathfinders, Will Iredale, Penguin, 2021, p.116 and on v The Bombing War, Overy, Penguin, 2012, p.238 vi See Caliban Rising’s excellent video on statistical deaths for Bomber Command vii B12/36, The British Aircraft Specifications File, Meekcoms & Morgan, Air-Britain, 1994, p.228 viii The Bombing War, Overy, Penguin, 2012, p.290-91 ix The Pathfinders, Will Iredale, Penguin, 2021 p.74 x Proceedings of the Royal Airforce Historical Society, Issue No 6, Sept 1989, p.22 xi The Pathfinders, Iredale, Penguin, 2021, p.75 xii The Pathfinders, Iredale, Penguin, 2021, 2021 p.79 xiii https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilfrid_Freeman - yes, yes I know, a Wiki reference. xiv Interview 1977 for the RAF Centre for Air Power Studies (CASPS) - https://youtu.be/_JihH2VSiqU?si=90pAjmmlpUALifbA xv Pathfinder, Goodall, 1988 pp. 102, 158, 205