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)
If you’d like to be a cool kid, then become a Patreon here - https://www.patreon.com/LordHardThrasher or if you’d like to email me send a message to lordhardthrasher@gmail.com Selected Internet Sources Target for Today (1944) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6yaq_HT3aE&t=596s https://www.navsea.navy.mil/Home/Warfare-Centers/NSWC-Dahlgren/Dahlgren_Centennial/Dahlgren_Biographies/LTEThompson/ - LTE Thompson, first lead scientist at Dahlgren https://www.amazon.co.uk/Scientist-Experiences-Corruption-Military-Industrial-Establishment/dp/B0006C007A - DOnald Jacobs https://youtu.be/lFxDL4_Xavo?si=knY1dSrIhaa5viRG https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pointblank_directive https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butt_Report https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Area_bombing_directive https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casablanca_directive https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C1218637 - Western War Plan W5a and W6 Selected Bibliography Dresden – Sinclair McKay Dresden; Tuesday….. – Fredrick Taylor Absolute War – The Firebombing of Tokyo Black Snow - Bomber Command – Max Hastings Bomber Command’s War Against Germany, An Official History – Nobel Franklin et al. The Bomber Mafia – Malcolm Gladwell Absolute War – Chris Bellamy Undaunted and Through Adversity (Vol 1 &2) – Ben Kite United States Strategic Bombing Survey (European War) (USSBS) Sept 1945 – Var. - https://collections.nlm.nih.gov/catalog/nlm:nlmuid-101634748-bk America’s Pursuit of Precision Bombing 1910-1945, McFarland Big Week – James Holland