The Strategic Air War Against Germany, 1939-1945: Report of the British Bombing Survey UnitPsychology Press, 1998 - 195 頁 At the close of the Second World War both the RAF and the United States Army Air Forces sent teams of investigators to the continent of Europe to try and assess the effectiveness of Allied strategic bombing. The British Survey was originally classified and is published here for the first time. By combining the original Report and an analysis of its strengths and weaknesses, together with a short history of the genesis of the British Survey, this work is an important contribution to the continuing historical debate over the effects of the strategic bombing offensive in the Second World War. |
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List of Illustrations vii | vii |
Contents iii | lvi |
The Scale and Distribution of the Bomber Effort | 31 |
The Effects of the Combined Bomber Offensive | 63 |
Part IV Achievements and Possibilities of Strategic Air War | 159 |
Glossary of Code Names and Abbreviations | 173 |
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achieved air attacks Air Ministry Air Staff aircraft industry aircraft production Allied American Ardennes offensive area attacks armament production armies attacks on German attacks on railway average BBSU bomber forces bomber offensive bombing policy bridges capacity civilian coal communications D-Day damage December defence destruction directif economic effects enemy enemy's estimates fact factories fighter figures France fuel German aircraft German cities German industrial German oil Germany's heavy bombers increase January July June large number later locomotives loss Luftwaffe March military months oil plants oil targets operations organisation output overall Overlord Percentage period Pointblank priority programme quarter R.A.F. Bomber Command railway centres railway system Reich repair Report result Royal Air Force Ruhr September SHAEF short tons shortage Solly Zuckerman Speer steel stocks strategic air forces Strategic Bombing Survey supplies synthetic oil TABLE tactical target systems Tonnage tons of bombs towns traffic trains transport U-boat USSBS VIIIth U.S.A.A.F. waggons weapons Wehrmacht western