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)
Call of War 1942 - https://callofwar.onelink.me/q5L6/HATR001 Hello my little Christmas puddings; today' film covers the strategic bombing forces in ww2, what they did to support Overlord, the arieal war across France and into Germany during 1944, taking out enemy formations, V1 and V2 sites, and breaking up the Nazi Oil fields in the process. But all did not go according to plan….this is the inbetweeny bit from June - December 1944 and the part everyone forgets before the Bulge, Dresden and all that.... 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 i America's Pursuit of Precision Bombing 1910-1945, McFarland, Smithsonian Institution Press, 1995 p.93 & on ii TNA, AIR48/67, USSBS Military Analysis Div Rpt No.4, 3rd Nov 1945 iii The Most Dangerous Enemy, Bungay, Aurum, 2000, p.322 & 361 iv Big Wing, The biography of Air Chief Marshal Sir Trafford Leigh-Mallory, KCB, DSO and Bar, Dunn, Airlife, 1992, p.95 - and can I just say how much I absolutely do not recommend this book, it is drivel. v Carl Spaatz Air and the Air War in Europe, Davis, Centre for Airforce History, 1993 p.426 vi The Pathfinders, Iredale, 2021, p.315 vii Pathfinders, Iredale, 2021 p. 226 viii Carl Spaatz Air and the Air War in Europe, Davis, Centre for Airforce History, 1993 p.432 ix The Bombing War: Europe 1939-1954, Overy, Penguin p.383-5 x Bomber Command's War Against Germany, from AIR41/57. Pen & Sword 2020 p.91 xi Carl Spaatz Air and the Air War in Europe, Davis, Centre for Airforce History, 1993 p.434 xii Masters of the Air Donald Miller p.304-5 xiii Undaunted Britain and the Commonwealth's War in the Air 1939-1945, Kite, Helion p.189 xiv Radar Bombing by the Eight Airforce, Odishaw, 1946 p.88-89 xv Undaunted Britain and the Commonwealth's War in the Air 1939-1945, Kite, Helion p.192 xvi Carl Spaatz and the Air War in Europe, Davis, Centre for Airforce History, 1993, p. 443 xvii United States Strategic Bombing Survey 1945, Europe xviii Masters of the Air Donald Miller, p.318 ixx Carl Spaatz and the Air War in Europe, Davis, Centre for Airforce History, 1993, p. 443 xx Dresden, Taylor, Bloomsbury 2004 (from 2011 Electronic Ed.) p.228 xxi https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UCWK-O7cKvc 00:00:00 Introduction 00:01:12 A Word From Our Sponsor 00:03:25 A Few Notes For New Viewers 00:04:02 – How End A War 00:06:25 – A 90 second (well 6 minutes) Recap of the story so far 00:12:15 – On With The Show 00:18:40 – The Key Players 00:20:10 – Enter Trafford Leigh-Mallory 00:24:05 – Trafford in Charge At the AEAF 00:26:15 – The Strategic Bombers Role In D-Day 00:27:29 – The Bombers As Part Of The Deception Plans 00:28:18 – Cutting Off Normandy 00:29:41 – The V1s, Poison Gas and Biological Warfare 00:37:31 – The One True Raid To End The War 00:41:50 – Self Harm in Normandy (It’s Trafford Time Again) 00:52:04 – Focus On Oil – Why, How and What Happened in 1944 01:05:00 – And on to Dresden 01:05:25 – Survivor’s Club