The bombing of Coventry, England, in November 1940 revealed the brutal hand of German aggression, ripping through vast residential areas and leaving a trail of devastation. The Allies craved vengeance. They aimed to break the German spirit. By November 1941, Britain had set up a covert wartime organization: RE8. It had a straightforward yet frightening mission: engineering an inferno the likes of which the world had never seen.
British engineers, hardened by their own experiences as survivors of the Blitz, sought to craft a far more devastating bombing method to bring Germany to its knees. They scrutinized the construction of German homes, building massive replicas of Hamburg’s most densely packed neighborhoods to master the art of spreading a firestorm.
The engineers calculated the perfect ratio of high-explosive bombs and incendiaries, concocting a lethal mix of magnesium bombs and oil-based incendiaries. For months, they studied meteorological conditions and wind patterns, knowing high winds would be the best catalyst for the firestorm they intended to unleash.
After grueling months of research, by 1943, RE8 had distilled and engineered Armageddon. They would bring forth a catastrophe of biblical proportions on Hamburg. On July 24, the skies over Germany darkened. Over the following days, more than 3,000 Allied aircraft took to the air, armed with over 9,000 tons of explosives. Their goal? Creating an untamable firestorm, a hurricane of destruction whose temperatures would soar past 1,400 degrees Fahrenheit, hotter than volcanic lava. The wrath of the Allied powers was about to be unleashed in what was aptly named Operation Gomorrah…
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Having broken a Nazi code, regretfully they knew Coventry was coming.
Actually, the British were the first to bomb a German city that had no military forces, just civilians. This guy is lying.
Germany used firebombing tactics before this.
Coventry gets forgotten, but it’s whole centre is modern, as it’s whole centre was bombed. ‘Hitler’s demolition crews’ did their work.
Just endless propaganda. Funny though, how many misinformed wannabe patriots keep spreading the tale that the Allies never intended to start a firestorm, that the intentional murder of hundreds of thousands of women, children, and old men was a weather accident. Precision bombing misses whole cities? OK, let's do indiscriminate carpet bombing of civilians. But keep calling it precision. Going to war to force German troops (but not the Russian ones) out of Poland? Didn't work. OK, we're going to war to prevent an invasion. We weren't invaded? OK, we're going to war for regime change. Bombing to break morale? Didn't work. OK, we're bombing for revenge for their counterattacks. Their counterattacks ended? OK . . .
My great grandmother survived the week at Dresden. She was a lion keeper, and the poor snimals had to be destroyed due to the lack of food. When the fire storms started a large percentage of the zoo staff took shelter in the concrete enclosures that kept the fire away.
Remember it was the British who were the first to bomb civilians and the Germans only retaliating 🤔
the voice on these is killing me now
all because of an idiot in control.
The Norden bomb sight was exposed by crews and intelligence as being not any more accurate than any other equipment being used during that period.
Just remember folks… It's not a War Crime the first time.
What ever changed your voice it not a good change.
loofafa?
You failed to mention the new word that was coined following the German destruction of Coventry – to coventrate.
With significant refinement, the allied air forces coventrated over a dozen German cities. Subsequently, the US used the same process against Japanese cities once they had secured air bases close enough to the Japanese home islands for B-29s to make the round trip (with a full bomb load on the outward leg, obviously).
And on the 16th of July 1945, such tactics became moot, following the successful detonation of the world's first nuclear weapon.
If wasn't the pre war planning by Sir Hugh Downing Commander of the bomber Commamd.
There was no such thing as a civilian in Germany at the time.
British historian, David Irving, says this is all bullshit.
He never saw it coming because the generals around him tried to tell him about strategies and battle field going on BUTT the little ego mustache thought he knew better…
Not to decry Dark Skies! I do love your vids!!!! but, theres always a but but
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Many English firefighters in the images of Hamburg ,lol 4.35….lol
My dad served with bomber command as a gunner initially with a squadron equiped with twin engined Lockheed Ventura medium bombers before joining a pathfinder squadron equiped with Lancasters. From his log book he took part in many of the air raids mentioned in this video including Hamburg. He didn't talk much about it but towards the end of his life he did say that in his opinion some of the targets they were sent to bomb weren't worth the lives of the aircrews lost, especially towards the end of the war when much of Gemany was wrecked anyway. But he was adamant that he had no regrets about bombing large industrial targets such has Hamburg, he'd seen first hand what German bombers had done to London when he was caught in an air raid which removed any sympathy he may have had for the Germans. He didn't hate Germans as such, once the war was over he strongly believed it was better for European countries to get on with each other and not make the same mistakes made in the twenties and thirties.
In war there are no winners, just losers and bigger losers.
Mr Ai narrator is back. I'm out!
Not easy to understand your speech sadly
By November 1941, Barrack Obama somehow was a scientist pouring a test tube thingy.
Why did the Americans bring 250000 SS nazis Scientist and their families to America. Did the CIA today Connect it to the nazis.
A lot of filler on this video
There was no "allies" in 1940.
The first 6 minutes, is just a degraded copy of the audio that follows. 9 minute video as 15. Cheap engagement farming?
This may be interesting if I could understand crack talk.
It’s been termed a war crime, 😕 it probably was but it would have been in response to a war crime committed upon them. It turned into a race to the moral bottom.
In November 1940 there were no allied air forces to respond to the attacks. Ok, the huge 1000 ships Norwegian merchant navy had joined the UK, but none of the foreign countries air forces.
As a chaplain I have great reservations on using such tactics on civilians who immediately after the war became our greatest allies.
The insanity and irony is unmistakable.
My Dad was a B-24 tail gunner flying over his grandmothers house in Hamburg so I understand only too well the moral dilemma many German Americans in particular felt.
My German language teacher in HS was from Hamburg, and was a child during the war. She never talked bout that time.