Bomber Commands War Against Germany Noble Frankland by Noble Frankland 9781526790873, 9781526790880, 9781526790897, 9781526798251, 1526798255, 1526790874, 1526790882, 1526790890 instant download after payment.

"The internal RAF analysis of the different phases of the air war and what lessons could be learnt from those campaigns." —Royal Aeronautical Society website
When the RAF's Bomber Command analyzed the results of their precision bombing efforts during the early years of World War II, a growing body of evidence indicated that the great "knockout" blow expected to be delivered from the air was a fantasy. It would only be through a prolonged campaign of attrition that the enemy could be worn down to such a degree that morale, the means of production and the infrastructure of the enemy would be degraded to the point where its fighting ability was crippled.
The result of this assessment was a change of policy from precision bombing of carefully identified key installations, to area bombing with the declared intent of striking at the homes of the German workers, the factories where they worked regardless of the nature of such establishments or of the civilian...