Strategic bombing is a systematically organized and executed attack from the air which can utilize strategic bombers, long- or medium-range missiles, ...

67,000 civilians killed from US-UK bombing; Half of the 2,500 French crewmen of the British RAF bomber command perished. Ethical considerations · Europe · Asia

Strategic bombing, approach to aerial bombardment designed to destroy a country's ability to wage war by demoralizing civilians and targeting features of an ...

PROGRAM. 1998. Page 2. To those in World War II who fought for their countries high above the Earth, where aerial armadas moved amidst the din and frost for the ...

To avoid another long and bloody war like World War I, the U.S. Army Air Forces' leaders in the 1930s planned to use strategic bombing to destroy the ...

This volume contains an identical reprint of the Summary. Reports (Europe and the Pacific) of the strategic bombing surveys conducted as World War II was ...

The myth, begun in sincerity by Italian General Giulio Douhet after World War I has been continually embellished, deepened, and reinforced for 75 years.

When the Second World War began Britain was unwilling to unleash its bombers for fear of provoking German attacks on British cities, but as defeat in ...

Strategic bombing had its beginning during World War I when German Zeppelins began raiding London. Small attacks against England were carried out early in the ...

American planners believed that effective attacks on those targets demanded Daylight Precision Bombing raids. An intense six-month bombing campaign, they ...