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Selected Internet Sources
Target for Today (1944) – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6yaq_HT3aE&t=596s
https://www.navsea.navy.mil/Home/Warfare-Centers/NSWC-Dahlgren/Dahlgren_Centennial/Dahlgren_Biographies/LTEThompson/ – LTE Thompson, first lead scientist at Dahlgren
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Scientist-Experiences-Corruption-Military-Industrial-Establishment/dp/B0006C007A – DOnald Jacobs
https://youtu.be/lFxDL4_Xavo?si=knY1dSrIhaa5viRG
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pointblank_directive
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butt_Report
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Area_bombing_directive
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casablanca_directive
https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C1218637 – Western War Plan W5a and W6
Selected Bibliography
Dresden – Sinclair McKay
Dresden; Tuesday….. – Fredrick Taylor
Absolute War – The Firebombing of Tokyo
Black Snow –
Bomber Command – Max Hastings
Bomber Command’s War Against Germany, An Official History – Nobel Franklin et al.
The Bomber Mafia – Malcolm Gladwell
Absolute War – Chris Bellamy
Undaunted and Through Adversity (Vol 1 &2) – Ben Kite
United States Strategic Bombing Survey (European War) (USSBS) Sept 1945 – Var. – https://collections.nlm.nih.gov/catalog/nlm:nlmuid-101634748-bk
America’s Pursuit of Precision Bombing 1910-1945, McFarland
Big Week – James Holland
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Keep up the good work. Love the attitude.
Did you do something with the audio this time? Usually I have your videos on going through a bluetooth speaker while working around the house and need to constantly fiddle with the volume, but this time it was super well balanced and clear.
Maybe it's just placebo, but regardless keep up the good work!
i enjoyed my cookie
I can only imagine the time and effort you've sunk into this bomber series – what a fantastic, informative and entertaining video! Can't wait for the next instalment.
if I may, audio equalization could use some work. your voice fading in and out at times makes it hard to keep listening and understanding.
Mein Jihad.
Mmh I thought for a long time that the Norden Visier was the ultimate – well, I learned something again.
It's interesting that it went from we hit a factory to we hit the city and that the German Luftwaffe didn't copy it because it was so beautifully complicated. I would have expected that from Göring somehow.
Came because lazerpig, stayed because hes better than lazerpig
I must admit to be disappointed at the amount of swearing- I think the entire fukd up situation deserved far more. More cheap sherry before the next one may help. Love your work LHT. 👍👏
Splendid! I was almost tumescent with pleasure on listening to your excellent presentation.
Thank you.
American Exceptionalism at its finest – we don't talk to or like our allies and even people on our own side – see Admiral King, USSAC/USAAF Materiel Command (yes Oliver P. Echols I am talking about you) and BuOrd our torpedoes work, tell that to the submarine crews and the guys flying the TBDs.
Thanks my lord, I didn't know how absolutely awful the poor US Air crews had it if the b17 wasn't bad enough not to mention the total waste of money and more importantly lives lost , found it very informative and so very sad .
Keep up the wonderful work .
So far you haven't mentioned that the vanes on the back of the bombs were only clipped on, so minor variations of position meant that the bombs didn't all fall in the same place anyway! Plus, when an armarda of aircraft fly together, the front guy in the middle MIGHT be somewhere near where he was supposed to be, but the bods on the outside edges were anything up to half a mile off to begin with. The only way all aircraft could bomb the same target was for them all to drop their bombs in exactly the same spot, which meant that they all collided with each other through trying to fly through the same square inch of space at the same time!
Woodrow "I have a dream but by God it's so white" Wilson.
Nice,I got a cookie
Overall good video and fairly informative. My only critique would be the microphone quality can be inconsistent at points as well as the volume with some of the music can go from you speaking at normal tone at lets say a 5-6 to "THE YANKS ARE COMING!!!!!!!!!!" at an 11. GG you triggered my tinnitus I'll now be staring at the sky waiting to see if any god will have the decency of smiting me with a lightening strike. However, partially my fault leaving the video on the full blast after the first one lmao
Thanks Thrashy, If everyone could take a trip over to ' Flight Dojo' for more on the Norden they wont be dissapointed.
9:13 ITYM Douaumont.
So, is sucking balls a bad thing?
Thanks for the cookie m'lord