The theory of daylight precision bombing, developed in the 1930s at the Air Corps Tactical School at Maxwell Field, Ala.

Precision bombing is the attempted aerial bombing of a target with some degree of accuracy, with the aim of maximising target damage or limiting collateral ...

Unescorted daylight precision bombing was a concept developed in the 1930s at the Army Air Corps Tactical School (ACTS) at Maxwell Field, Alabama.

Daylight bombing during World War II. (U.S. Air Force photo) ... The Americans preferred daytime precision bombing and were attempting to prove its value.

5 окт. 2023 г. · The US Army Air Forces (USAAF) entered World War II with the newly framed doctrine of daylight precision bombing. Developed at the Air Corps ...

A strategic bombing campaign was waged by RAF Bomber Command against Nazi Germany and other Axis powers in Europe during the Second World War.

This concluding chapter examines US air war planning in World War II and evaluates overall American strategic bombing effectiveness.

During the 1930s, American military aviators adopted the doctrine of daylight precision bombing to destroy the enemy's means of production while doing as little ...

An experimental daylight strike by 12 four‐engine Boeing B‐17E Flying Fortresses against French railroad marshaling yards in Rouen's suburb of Sotteville.

First, they would attack only precision targets like factories or shipyards, rather than drop bombs on whole cities as the British were doing. Second, they ...