Author: Stanford Research Institute
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Category : Civil defense
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
Impact of Air Attack in World War II: Summary of civil defense experience. v. 3. Causes of fire from atomic attack. v. 4. Evaluation of source material
Author: Stanford Research Institute
Publisher:
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Category : Civil defense
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Civil defense
Languages : en
Pages : 288
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Impact of Air Attack in World War II
Author: Stanford Research Institute
Publisher:
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Category : Civil defense
Languages : en
Pages : 176
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Publisher:
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Category : Civil defense
Languages : en
Pages : 176
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Impact of Air Attack in World War II: Summary of civil defense experience. v. 2. Analytical studies. v. 4. Evaluation of source material
Author: Stanford Research Institute
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Category : Civil defense
Languages : en
Pages : 132
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Publisher:
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Category : Civil defense
Languages : en
Pages : 132
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Impact of Air Attack in World War II
Author:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 280
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 280
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Impact of Air Attack in World War II
Author: Stanford Research Institute
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Category : Air warfare
Languages : en
Pages : 44
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Air warfare
Languages : en
Pages : 44
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Impact of Air Attack in World War II
Author: United States. Federal Civil Defense Administration
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 340
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Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
To Destroy A City
Author: Herman Knell
Publisher: Da Capo Press
ISBN: 0786748494
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 398
Book Description
Herman Knell was nineteen and living in Würtzburg in March of 1945 when hundreds of Allied planes arrived overhead, unleashing a torrent of bombs on the city. Würtzburg's tightly packed medieval housing exploded in a firestorm, killing six thousand people in one night and destroying 92 percent of the city's structures. Despite the fact that Würtzburg had no strategic value, the city emerged from World War II second only to Dresden in material destruction inflicted from the air. The experience led Knell to years of research on the history, development, and effects of the strategy of area bombing.To Destroy a City is the result of the author's long and unrelenting investigation. His analysis of this form of warfare, which reached its zenith during World War II, covers the history and the development of wide-area bombing since 1914, examines its wartime effectiveness and the consequences. But the extra dimension that Knell's book offers is his firsthand experience of the tension, fear, tentative defiance, and, finally, utter catastrophe of being on the receiving end of overwhelming air power. For Americans, who fortunately did not experience bombing during the war, this is essential reading.
Publisher: Da Capo Press
ISBN: 0786748494
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 398
Book Description
Herman Knell was nineteen and living in Würtzburg in March of 1945 when hundreds of Allied planes arrived overhead, unleashing a torrent of bombs on the city. Würtzburg's tightly packed medieval housing exploded in a firestorm, killing six thousand people in one night and destroying 92 percent of the city's structures. Despite the fact that Würtzburg had no strategic value, the city emerged from World War II second only to Dresden in material destruction inflicted from the air. The experience led Knell to years of research on the history, development, and effects of the strategy of area bombing.To Destroy a City is the result of the author's long and unrelenting investigation. His analysis of this form of warfare, which reached its zenith during World War II, covers the history and the development of wide-area bombing since 1914, examines its wartime effectiveness and the consequences. But the extra dimension that Knell's book offers is his firsthand experience of the tension, fear, tentative defiance, and, finally, utter catastrophe of being on the receiving end of overwhelming air power. For Americans, who fortunately did not experience bombing during the war, this is essential reading.
Impact of Air Attack in World War II
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Category : Civil defense
Languages : en
Pages :
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Category : Civil defense
Languages : en
Pages :
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Impact of Air Attack in World War II: Selected Data for Civil Defense Planning
Author: Stanford Research Institute
Publisher:
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Category : Air warfare
Languages : en
Pages : 630
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Category : Air warfare
Languages : en
Pages : 630
Book Description
Lectures of the Air Corps Tactical School and American Strategic Bombing in World War II
Author: Phil Haun
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 0813176794
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
Following the cataclysmic losses suffered in World War I, air power theorists in Europe advocated for long-range bombers to overfly the trenches and strike deep into the enemy's heartland. The bombing of cities was seen as a means to collapse the enemy's will to resist and bring the war to a quick end. In the United States, airmen called for an independent air force, but with the nation's return to isolationism, there was little appetite for an offensive air power doctrine. By the 1930s, however, a cadre of officers at the US Army Air Corps Tactical School (ACTS) had articulated an operational concept of high-altitude daylight precision bombing (HADPB) that would be the foundation for a uniquely American vision of strategic air attack. In Lectures of the Air Corps Tactical School and American Strategic Bombing in World War II editor Phil Haun brings together nine ACTS lecture transcripts, which have been preserved in Air Force archives, exactly as delivered to the airmen destined to lead the US Army Air Forces in World War II. Presented is a distinctive American strategy of high-altitude daylight precision bombing as told through lectures given at the ACTS during the interwar period and how these airmen put the theory to the test. The book examines the Air Corps theory of HADPB as compared to the reality of combat in World War II by relying on recent, revisionist histories that have given scholars a deeper understanding of the impact of strategic bombing on Germany.
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 0813176794
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
Following the cataclysmic losses suffered in World War I, air power theorists in Europe advocated for long-range bombers to overfly the trenches and strike deep into the enemy's heartland. The bombing of cities was seen as a means to collapse the enemy's will to resist and bring the war to a quick end. In the United States, airmen called for an independent air force, but with the nation's return to isolationism, there was little appetite for an offensive air power doctrine. By the 1930s, however, a cadre of officers at the US Army Air Corps Tactical School (ACTS) had articulated an operational concept of high-altitude daylight precision bombing (HADPB) that would be the foundation for a uniquely American vision of strategic air attack. In Lectures of the Air Corps Tactical School and American Strategic Bombing in World War II editor Phil Haun brings together nine ACTS lecture transcripts, which have been preserved in Air Force archives, exactly as delivered to the airmen destined to lead the US Army Air Forces in World War II. Presented is a distinctive American strategy of high-altitude daylight precision bombing as told through lectures given at the ACTS during the interwar period and how these airmen put the theory to the test. The book examines the Air Corps theory of HADPB as compared to the reality of combat in World War II by relying on recent, revisionist histories that have given scholars a deeper understanding of the impact of strategic bombing on Germany.