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Nijmegen Bombardment On 22 February 1944 A Faux Pas Or The Price Of Liberation
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Author : Joris A. C. van Esch
language : en
Publisher: Pickle Partners Publishing
Release Date : 2015-11-06
Nijmegen Bombardment On 22 February 1944 A Faux Pas Or The Price Of Liberation written by Joris A. C. van Esch and has been published by Pickle Partners Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-11-06 with History categories.
A steadfast misbelief in precision bombing evolved into the leading concept for US Army Air Force during the Second World War. This concept envisioned the destruction of the German industrial and economic system as the swiftest path to victory. However, the belief in survivability of bombers through self defense proved incorrect, and the Allies realized that the Luftwaffe had to be defeated first, by attacking the German aircraft industry. On 22 February 1944, Eighth Air Force conducted a mission as part of this offensive. During this mission, the bombers were recalled because of severe weather. On the return trip, the airmen decided not to abandon the mission outright, but to attack targets of opportunity. Because of navigational errors a section of 446 Bombardment Group misidentified the Dutch city Nijmegen as in Germany, and bombed it. Due to aiming errors, the greater part of the bombs missed the designated marshalling yards by a kilometer, and hit the city center instead. The bombardment caused chaos on the ground. It surprised the citizens, ignorant by earlier faulty alarms, and damage caused great difficulties for the provision of aid relief. As a result, the bombardment killed about 800 citizens and destroyed the historic city center.
Bombardements 1944
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Author : John Barzman (sous la dir.)
language : fr
Publisher: Presses universitaires de Rouen et du Havre
Release Date : 2016-07-05
Bombardements 1944 written by John Barzman (sous la dir.) and has been published by Presses universitaires de Rouen et du Havre this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-07-05 with History categories.
Aucune ville française n'a payé plus cher que Le Havre sa délivrance: près de 10 000 tonnes de bombes larguées en une semaine par ses libérateurs, plus de 2 000 morts, une ville détruite à plus de 80%. Plus de sept décennies plus tard, la plaie n’est pas totalement refermée. Comprendre ce qui a longtemps semble incompréhensible: voilà le pari que tente cet ouvrage collectif, travail d’un groupe d’historiens français, anglais, allemands et américains, en présentant les dernières recherches sur les bombardements et, surtout, en replaçant ceux-ci dans leur contexte. Contexte local d’abord, avec une analyse du rôle de la municipalité et des entreprises havraises pendant l’Occupation ou encore de la présence des Allies en 1944-1946. Contexte régional, avec la prise en compte des bombardements sur Rouen et de la bataille de Normandie. Contexte national, avec une étude du vécu et de la mémoire des bombardements dans d’autres villes françaises comme Nantes, Lyon ou Marseille. Contexte international enfin, avec la place des bombardements dans la stratégie anglo-américaine, mais aussi les représentations de la guerre aérienne et les interrogations qu’elle a engendrées dans les villes européennes. Bombardements 1944 est l’ouvrage-clé qui permet, au-delà des mythes, de comprendre des événements parmi les plus douloureux de notre histoire de Havrais, de Normands, de Français, d’Européens.
Bombing States And Peoples In Western Europe 1940 1945
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Author : Claudia Baldoli
language : en
Publisher: A&C Black
Release Date : 2011-06-30
Bombing States And Peoples In Western Europe 1940 1945 written by Claudia Baldoli and has been published by A&C Black this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-06-30 with History categories.
This is the first book to treat bombing during WWII as a European phenomenon and not just the 'Blitz' on Britain and Germany. With Western Europe now at the heart of a united continent, it is even more difficult to explain how only 70 years ago European states destroyed much of the urban landscape from the air. There were many blitzes between 1940 and 1945 with an estimated 700,000 people killed. The purpose of this book is to provide the basis for a comparison of the experience of western states under the impact of bombing. In particular, it considers the political, cultural and social responses to bombing rather than the military, strategic and social dimensions which have formed the core of the discussion hitherto. This book will correct the popular perception of the British Blitz as the key bombing experience by exposing the reality of life under the bombs for communities as far apart as Brest, Palermo, and Rostock. An international panel of historians consider the issues raised amidst the bombing of human rights and protection of civilians in this seminal event in C20th history.
The Collapse Of The German War Economy 1944 1945
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Author : Alfred C. Mierzejewski
language : en
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Release Date : 2017-10-10
The Collapse Of The German War Economy 1944 1945 written by Alfred C. Mierzejewski and has been published by UNC Press Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-10-10 with History categories.
In this book Alfred Mierzejewski describes how the German economy collapsed under Allied bombing in the last year of World War II. He presents a broad-based, original study of German wartime industry and transportation, and of Allied air force planning and intelligence, including the first complete analysis in English of the German National Railway. The German industrial economy was extraordinarily dependent on the timely, adequate distribution of coal by railroad and inland waterway. The German National Railway in particular was the pivot of the finely balanced armaments production and distribution system created by Albert Speer. But Allied strategists did not immediately recognize this. Only in late 1944, when Deputy Supreme Allied Commander Sir Arthur Tedder built a new strategic consensus, was this vital coal/transport nexus severed. The result was the rapid paralysis of the Nazi war economy. Mierzejewski measures the economic consequences of the bombing by considering broad indices such as armaments and coal production, railway performance, and weapons deliveries to the armed forces. In addition, he shows how individual companies in each of Germany's major economic regions fared. By drawing on previously unexamined files of private German manufacturing companies, the Reich Transportation Ministry, and Allied air intelligence agencies, Mierzejewski creates a rare combination of economic analysis and military history that provides new perspectives on the German war economy and Allied air intelligence.
Bombardements Of Iwo Jima
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1945
Bombardements Of Iwo Jima written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1945 with categories.
Mission 376
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Author : Ivo de Jong
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2003
Mission 376 written by Ivo de Jong and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with World War, 1939-1945 categories.
Some of the bombing missions of the U.S. 8th Air Force in World War II, such as the Schweinfurt and Berlin, have become legendary for one reason or another. Yet in the course of the war there were many others; missions forming part of the larger Allied strategy that did not become famous. These were simply part of the wearing down of a tenacious enemy. One such mission was Mission 376 on May 28, 1944, when ordinary men on both sides revealed extraordinary courage as they experienced the confusion and terror that accompanied the routine bloodletting. The day had one unusual characteristic, however-when it saw the first combat use of remote-controlled glide bombs by the USAAF. This book describes in unprecedented detail the events, experience and aircraft of the men on both sides that day during the course of 'an ordinary mission.'
The Wild Blue
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Author : Stephen E. Ambrose
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2001-08-14
The Wild Blue written by Stephen E. Ambrose and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001-08-14 with History categories.
Stephen E. Ambrose, acclaimed author of Band of Brothers and Undaunted Courage, carries us along in the crowded and dangerous B-24s as their crews fought to destroy the German war machine during World War II. The young men who flew the B-24s over Germany in World War II fought against horrific odds, and, in The Wild Blue, Ambrose recounts their extraordinary heroism, skill, daring, and comradeship with vivid detail and affection. Ambrose describes how the Army Air Forces recruited, trained, and selected the elite few who would undertake the most demanding and dangerous jobs in the war. These are the boys—turned pilots, bombardiers, navigators, and gunners of the B-24s—who suffered over fifty percent casualties. With his remarkable gift for bringing alive the action and tension of combat, Ambrose carries us along in the crowded, uncomfortable, and dangerous B-24s as their crews fought to the death through thick black smoke and deadly flak to reach their targets and destroy the German war machine. Twenty-two-year-old George McGovern, who was to become a United States senator and a presidential candidate, flew thirty-five combat missions (all the Army would allow) and won the Distinguished Flying Cross. We meet him and his mates, his co-pilot killed in action, and crews of other planes. Many went down in flames. As Band of Brothers and Citizen Soldiers portrayed the bravery and ultimate victory of the American soldiers from Normandy on to Germany, The Wild Blue illustrates the enormous contribution that these young men of the Army Air Forces made to the Allied victory.
Not Home For Christmas
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Author : John Meurs
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2009
Not Home For Christmas written by John Meurs and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with History categories.
When author John Meurs was a nine-year-old schoolboy living in Nazi-occupied Holland, an American B-17 bomber crashed behind his house near the village of Apeldoorn. The date was Sunday, November 26, 1944. Meurs always wanted to know more about what happened in the air on that Thanksgiving Sunday. So, more than sixty years later he started researching "his" B-17. He quickly found that the bomber was part of the 8th Air Force Air Combat Command. Meurs' findings intrigued him and after discovering many interesting facts, Meurs focused his research on the 34 heavy bombers of the Mighty Eighth that were lost that day. He collected the personal stories of veterans who lived through it, families of veterans lost, and witnesses of the crashes. These first-hand recollections, captured in this book, provide a compelling and terrifying account of the reality of war. Thanks to the noble men of the Mighty Eighth who "would not be home for Christmas" in 1944 and their comrades in arms, ma
Aiming Point Walcheren
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Author : Paul M. Crucq
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2003
Aiming Point Walcheren written by Paul M. Crucq and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with Walcheren (Netherlands) categories.
Details the systematic bombing of gun emplacement by the RAF Bomber Command, 84 Group, 2nd Tactical Air Force, through personal recollections by men in the planes to liberate Antwerp, Belgium and use it as a sustained port in October and November of 1944. This was the second phase of Operation Infatuate.
Forgotten Blitzes
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Author : Claudia Baldoli
language : en
Publisher: A&C Black
Release Date : 2012-04-12
Forgotten Blitzes written by Claudia Baldoli and has been published by A&C Black this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-04-12 with History categories.