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 In which the USAAF and RAF finally start to Get Good at their jobs and tie up their respective campaigns for literally the first time 00:00 - 04:01 Introduction 04:06 - 08:12 Forward Operating Base 08:15 - 11:30 - Changes in Command 11:32 - 16:16 - Doolittle's Plan 16:20 - 22:25 - Big Week 22:34 - 29:32 - Aftermath 29:35 - 32:06 - Berlin 32:09 - 33:59 -Overlord 34:02 - Survivor's Club Greg's Airplanes P-47 Playlist https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLD2EcpzcvT-tvemNaIYUfZfV3s8K8Gbgh&si=naYPGir1kbuEAl7d Selected Internet Sources 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 Selected Bibliography America’s Pursuit of Precision Bombing 1910-1945, McFarland Absolute War – Chris Bellamy Absolute War – The Firebombing of Tokyo Big Week – James Holland Black Snow- James M Scott Bomber Boys – Kevin Wilson Bomber Command – Max Hastings Bomber Offensive – Sir Arthur Harris GCB, OBE, AFC Bomber Command’s War Against Germany, An Official History – Nobel Franklin et al. The Bomber Mafia – Malcolm Gladwell Carl Spaatz and the European Air War – Richard Davis et al. (1993) Dresden – Sinclair McKay Dresden; Tuesday….. – Fredrick Taylor Serenade for the Big Bird – Bert Stiles (1944) 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 https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1943/d92 - The Combined Bomber Offensive guiding charter, Enclosure B Photos used published under Creative Commons - Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=514724 unless otherwise stated P-47 and all things flying, check out @Greg's Airplanes and Automobiles https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLD2EcpzcvT-tvemNaIYUfZfV3s8K8Gbgh&si=s-XpFxTqjuHhEOXF B-17, Lancaster, Bomber, WW2, Second World War, Nazis, Air War, USAF, USAAF, RAF, Bomber Command, Charles Portal, Carl Spaatz, Tedder, Arthur, Hap Arnold, Eisenhower, Eike, Dwight, Spitfire, FW190, Bf109, Area Bombing