HardThrasher
Published 28 Feb 2024In which the USAAF and RAF finally start to Get Good at their jobs and tie up their respective campaigns for literally the first time.
00:00 – 04:01 – Introduction
04:06 – 08:12 – Forward Operating Base
08:15 – 11:30 – Changes in Command
11:32 – 16:16 – Doolittle’s Plan
16:20 – 22:25 – Big Week
22:34 – 29:32 – Aftermath
29:35 – 32:06 – Berlin
32:09 – 33:59 – Overlord
34:02 – Survivor’s Club
Greg’s Airplanes P-47 Playlist • P-47 Thunderbolt
Selected Internet Sources
The Butt Report – Transcript from 2014 – https://etherwave.files.wordpress.com…
The Cherwell Memorandum – https://www.worldfuturefund.org/wffma…
Target for Today (1944) – Target For Today (1944)
https://www.navsea.navy.mil/Home/Warf… – LTE Thompson, first lead scientist at Dahlgren
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick… – Admiralty Professor in opposition to Bomber Command
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aerial_… – International Law pertaining to Ariel Bombardment in 1939…eg there was noneevent=video_description&redir_token=QUFFLUhqbjhhUDZCWVBqLUtsa1daR0wyVDJtenZTazRTZ3xBQ3Jtc0trLVBNZzZ4cGZJN0JKWkFWUUY5VE1iZHV2bVpLS2M4cHdEM2tqb1FBYWYxOWlHSzRmc0NBT0xIdVAzb0ZkOHVrMnVzYjZ4N3RfQjNwVW9LeWZDNVdwZWstSnFEZzZTNnpTd1MyN1FBR2NxRUV5andCdw&q=https%3A%2F%2Fen.m.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FButt_Report&v=L4HIHvjuWsE” target=”_blank”>https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butt_…
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Area_…
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casab…
https://discovery.nationalarchives.go… – Western War Plan W5a and W6Selected Bibliography
America’s Pursuit of Precision Bombing 1910-1945 – McFarland et al.
Dresden – Sinclair McKay
Dresden; Tuesday … – Fredrick Taylor
Absolute War – The Firebombing of Tokyo – Chris Bellamy
Black Snow –
Bomber Command – Max Hastings
Bomber Command’s War Against Germany, An Official History – Nobel Franklin et al.
The Bomber Mafia – Malcolm Gladwell
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/catal…
America’s Pursuit of Precision Bombing 1910-1945, McFarland
Big Week – James HollandPhotos used published under Creative Commons – Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index… unless otherwise stated
Footage used
Memphis Belle: A Story of a Flying Fortress, Directed by William Wyler (including on-board shots he took at the time on actual missions) – copyright Paramount Pictures 1944
Target for Today – US Army Air Forces Film Division, 1944
The Rear Gunner – The U.S. Army Signal Corps Photographic Section, Warner Bros. 1943
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