Despite Germany conquering most of Europe by 1940, the allies weren’t going down without a fight. While they prepared themselves for the launching of an invasion of Europe, they ran daring bombing raids in the heart of Germany to strike back and disrupt the Nazi operations. This documentary looks at the evolution of military air power and how the allies used this to their advantage.
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00:00 Introduction
05:47 HH Promo
06:22 Air Wars
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Nazis killed my American grandparents with an Me-262.
Some people call it strategic bombing, others call it a war crime.
''Strategic Bombing'' = burning children in Hamburg, Vietnam and Iraq…
the gentle laborer shall no longer suffer
Have a goal, change your routine, get more active, sleep more/less, conquer stress,
It’s Your Life, So Live It!
The stats are clear: the Allied bombing of Germany killed more women and children than men. It's true.
well presented, but a bit basic.
Yet war production rose every year in German industry.
More like how the Allies used the bombing to wipe out German civilians.
Without the bombing campaign, there would have been up to 4x the number of 88mm guns on the eastern front!
Really good not gonna lie it was a lot better then what I thought it was gonna be keep it up
WW3 is coming, with Weapons of Mass Extinction.
The weaponization of the planet will consume US all.
The most surprising part of all this is just how inaccurate the bombings were. How'd they ever come up with that garbage about being able to drops bomb in a pickle barrel bs 😮
Wrong. The strategic bombing campaign did little to cripple the Germans. The bombs were terribly inaccurate and killed hundreds of thousands of German women and children. The Germans moved strategic assets underground and continued producing. Same in Japan. The only bombings that worked were the atomic bombs that also killed tens of thousands of women and children.
Bomber Harris and Curtis LeMay were war criminals who escaped prosecution
their sins are why the populaces of USA and UK suffer the consequences of total war
in the end…USA had to pay reparations for all the damage they caused
Most informative historical coverage about aviation strike between Luftwafa & allies airforces during WW2….allot thanks …german Luftwafa fought furiously in skies while USA 🇺🇸 airforces fought more successfully than its British partners during WW2 against Luftwafa
Bomber Harris Hero 😘
When industrialized countries considered concentrated, decisively air (strategic)bombarding as mainly attacking method for capitulate & defeat (supposed) enemy …they decided (total war )doctrine practically for future wars…while Ghobless proclaimed it in his propaganda speeches …while Germany in started of crippling its whole strength 💪..
Fritz never ran out of fighter planes only pilots .
"Britain was determined to fight alone"?!? If Britain fought alone there wouldn't be B of Britain left. But God forbit they actually said it. The propaganda overlords might smite them.
Harris was the only service Commander-in-Chief not enobled or celebrated with a statue after the war. Area bombing of cities was recognised as morally dubious from the beginning. But at a time of such fear particulalry as the war went badly, desparation meant these measures were acceptable. I wonder if we could have changed strategy, at least by late 1944?
the bombing never broke the will of the people, it only strengthened it! Only cowards attack civilians.
For all the armchair bleeding hearts you'll find it was the Germans who started area bombing or dehousing the workers. See the raid on Coventry etc. Don't sow the wind and then complain about the whirlwind.