{"id":93435,"date":"2025-05-28T02:00:06","date_gmt":"2025-05-28T06:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=93435"},"modified":"2025-01-08T20:43:04","modified_gmt":"2025-01-09T01:43:04","slug":"masters-of-the-air-the-bomber-war-episode-4-8th-air-force-1942-1943","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2025\/05\/28\/masters-of-the-air-the-bomber-war-episode-4-8th-air-force-1942-1943\/","title":{"rendered":"Masters of the Air &#8211; The Bomber War Episode 4 &#8211; 8th Air Force 1942-1943"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"854\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qxzsqYqMixU?si=27Ob6_ttMqfSKUed\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>HardThrasher<\/strong><br \/>\nPublished 6 Jan 2024<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;d like to be a cool kid, then become a Patreon or if you\u2019d like to email me send a message to lordhardthrasher@gmail.com  <\/p>\n<p>0:00 Intro<br \/>\n4:30 We&#8217;re Going to North Africa 1st<br \/>\n8:36 But you&#8217;re not doing it properly<br \/>\n16:16 Play it Again Ira<br \/>\n22:30 Mid 1943 \u2013 The Crisis Begins<br \/>\n26:53 The Black Summer<br \/>\n28:03 Operation Tidal Wave<br \/>\n34:21 Into The Valley of Death \u2013 Schweinfurt<br \/>\n41:34 What Now?<br \/>\n48:37 Survivors Club<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong>Selected Internet Sources<\/strong><br \/>\nThe Butt Report \u2013 Transcript from 2014 &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/redirect?event=video_description&#038;redir_token=QUFFLUhqbEN4VDlHRnBIZnJjYTRvNjBUUXAzeUdfRTNNUXxBQ3Jtc0tsVmdlb2g3MTZtSzBzYVlWRkJkNFVWajAyaVFrUFJvcmYtSVlZSVNCSFJMZXhoUURHU2JBRm5FcERJbzNjck85ZWF5VUhRSjk3S1k4aFR5TnJobkNlNGpSVktzTHR0Vi0yV2NyellXaHJpZC1oRmpCOA&#038;q=https%3A%2F%2Fetherwave.files.wordpress.com%2F2014%2F01%2Fbutt-report-transcription-tna-pro-air-14-12182.pdf&#038;v=W9Cr57s2k-E\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/etherwave.files.wordpress.com&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\nThe Cherwell Memorandum &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/redirect?event=video_description&#038;redir_token=QUFFLUhqa3QwQmExZFFEbEdkeklscHFJM3RNOXotal9SUXxBQ3Jtc0trZGZJeFJIclh0LVVDazVYUVR0dTkxTXg2X1VvLTg3LVB0OHhaVzJLX3RMMVl3dG5sLW0yRnNibDRTd21RTlI1ZUFCQzlWREFfOWl1WXUwa0pkM19ySm9RdmEyMk1TQm5kWDQ1QS1lRzM0REh4b3BzQQ&#038;q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.worldfuturefund.org%2Fwffmaster%2Freading%2FBombing%2Fcherwell.htm&#038;v=W9Cr57s2k-E\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.worldfuturefund.org\/wffma&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<em>Target for Today<\/em> (1944) &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=r6yaq_HT3aE&#038;t=596s\" target=\"_blank\">Target For Today (1944)<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/redirect?event=video_description&#038;redir_token=QUFFLUhqbll3dlJ1emE1NGduV2VyMjJia1NLajdJWDgwUXxBQ3Jtc0tsbHFiRzVrR2lxSFp5bm4yNWEzQWc1WmEyRGlBRmpYSnQtSmFoenFsbVl0RlNmdGJPM253WThabmFwWmpMRXBpMWhZVjUxWHVFVjJOeU4wMDlwUnd6R0xYUXZpa0ZXQ1NtNGVLQWxTOFBEazU3cDg5cw&#038;q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.navsea.navy.mil%2FHome%2FWarfare-Centers%2FNSWC-Dahlgren%2FDahlgren_Centennial%2FDahlgren_Biographies%2FLTEThompson%2F&#038;v=Y4MitxRT7PA\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.navsea.navy.mil\/Home\/Warf&#8230;<\/a> &#8211; LTE Thompson, first lead scientist at Dahlgren<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/redirect?event=video_description&#038;redir_token=QUFFLUhqbmx1WENBMnVnRXlhellNZGFiX2IyZHhSYUpfUXxBQ3Jtc0ttbXdaSTJramRXWnloTm50TV9FTkgtN3hIUU1PV0NsaENFdHFMNi1pN0Nsa00tanBpUU9sc3cySFdJZTQ5dm9NZGZjeFI3ejZuYTIweEtuUDl0akp0SV92OGtPLWgxaUZWQ1hoa2l5V3hsTHNLbndDcw&#038;q=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FPatrick_Blackett&#038;v=W9Cr57s2k-E\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Patrick&#8230;<\/a> &#8211; Admiralty Professor in opposition to Bomber Command<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/redirect?event=video_description&#038;redir_token=QUFFLUhqa0lOMTgyNzhycjNKWmpJMUN4YjI4NnBTRlMzQXxBQ3Jtc0trcEZBU1otMVNkWDZoSEI1OGhIY2JBd3c1ZTliZkNZQ2JweE1HVGJOX0VkQV9DTl9oT051STkzNUpPd3ZWelZYUlFGMXVRZTBILWhBbW82ZlhnUGVydjh3WVpSVGFKWGRYY1ptb0NfNll3OFVIbUNyVQ&#038;q=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FAerial_bombardment_and_international_law%23%3A%7E%3Atext%3DIn%25201977%252C%2520Protocol%2520I%2520was%2Cof%2520civilians%2520and%2520civilian%2520objects&#038;v=W9Cr57s2k-E\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Aerial_&#8230;<\/a> \u2013 International Law pertaining to Ariel Bombardment in 1939\u2026eg there was noneevent=video_description&#038;redir_token=QUFFLUhqbjhhUDZCWVBqLUtsa1daR0wyVDJtenZTazRTZ3xBQ3Jtc0trLVBNZzZ4cGZJN0JKWkFWUUY5VE1iZHV2bVpLS2M4cHdEM2tqb1FBYWYxOWlHSzRmc0NBT0xIdVAzb0ZkOHVrMnVzYjZ4N3RfQjNwVW9LeWZDNVdwZWstSnFEZzZTNnpTd1MyN1FBR2NxRUV5andCdw&#038;q=https%3A%2F%2Fen.m.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FButt_Report&#038;v=L4HIHvjuWsE&#8221; target=&#8221;_blank&#8221;>https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Butt_&#8230;<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/redirect?event=video_description&#038;redir_token=QUFFLUhqa0I0bmlJLVJGdFVuWXoyNWMxRG9wLVRyQUhUd3xBQ3Jtc0treG9YNDV2U0ZuTE9GazBuRXhBR0dfQURWTDk0RnBtLW9yYjczcGVXNjFQVGdpU2t6V2JGMVh1dkV3MllqZlByYXdPQmRxc0t1Qm9haGNkdEV4Y2QyUHYzcmM4Z0FMRWxQVUR3QUluS0xmdlZNTzl4Zw&#038;q=https%3A%2F%2Fen.m.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FArea_bombing_directive&#038;v=L4HIHvjuWsE\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Area_&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/redirect?event=video_description&#038;redir_token=QUFFLUhqa0lqZ2VxYkJoUHE4U092OHMxTFRXdHhIT2RzQXxBQ3Jtc0tsSFlER3NqYVdBR0NMcnFETkd5ckswS2cxSFJic0htNE5qbURqWWVXdFJmTGRyNlVmTnI4bUdtLXBKanZJTGRoNkJkT3BkV3lsSWxTSjBSM194N3ZHWVB2NjEtN1F1M1RWSkxuamc4ZEVjTzVlZnpLdw&#038;q=https%3A%2F%2Fen.m.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FCasablanca_directive&#038;v=L4HIHvjuWsE\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Casab&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/redirect?event=video_description&#038;redir_token=QUFFLUhqbldYaFk5a0d6WjVtQnRGMVFQaGdSUkRtOHV3Z3xBQ3Jtc0tuQWp1WC1pUk1Uam9pdnJxbmFDMElhUlJ4QU16RnJIQlNzUlQzZEkwVGxLbzBKd05PTHhJLS1waVBRX1F6d05mYlB0eXg2bDQtRUx5T3MxOEZxNTlZd21xcE1ZNEQ1Q2Y3cFg1UTh4cTduWVd0S0g2NA&#038;q=https%3A%2F%2Fdiscovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk%2Fdetails%2Fr%2FC1218637&#038;v=L4HIHvjuWsE\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/discovery.nationalarchives.go&#8230;<\/a> &#8211; Western War Plan W5a and W6<\/p>\n<p><strong>Selected Bibliography<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>America&#8217;s Pursuit of Precision Bombing 1910-1945<\/em> &#8211; McFarland et al.<br \/>\n<em>Dresden<\/em> \u2013 Sinclair McKay<br \/>\n<em>Dresden; Tuesday &#8230;<\/em> \u2013 Fredrick Taylor<br \/>\n<em>Absolute War \u2013 The Firebombing of Tokyo<\/em> \u2013 Chris Bellamy<br \/>\n<em>Black Snow<\/em> &#8211;<br \/>\n<em>Bomber Command<\/em> \u2013 Max Hastings<br \/>\n<em>Bomber Command&#8217;s War Against Germany, An Official History<\/em> \u2013 Nobel Franklin et al.<br \/>\n<em>The Bomber Mafia<\/em> \u2013 Malcolm Gladwell<br \/>\n<em>Undaunted and Through Adversity<\/em> (Vol 1 &#038;2) \u2013 Ben Kite<br \/>\nUnited States Strategic Bombing Survey (European War) (USSBS) Sept 1945 \u2013 Var. &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/redirect?event=video_description&#038;redir_token=QUFFLUhqa08tUFg3T3RQLVltOGJjdl9oMHZaai1ueGl1d3xBQ3Jtc0tuQ2otQm5sMVhpQmhZNUdIWkNtWUVyV3JYWHoxMG1YZDJQcnNpaExUWnBiQVpwenRIRm9Samwza01pQlAwWjdpZUwxNmhSRDZCcldQRm5oQVRJSzRYeUdDaHJFVFpXZU5vQUR2a0dNTXBHbm92TEx3SQ&#038;q=https%3A%2F%2Fcollections.nlm.nih.gov%2Fcatalog%2Fnlm%3Anlmuid-101634748-bk&#038;v=L4HIHvjuWsE\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/collections.nlm.nih.gov\/catal&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<em>America&#8217;s Pursuit of Precision Bombing 1910-1945<\/em>, McFarland<br \/>\n<em>Big Week<\/em> \u2013 James Holland<\/p>\n<p>Photos used published under Creative Commons &#8211; Public Domain, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/redirect?event=video_description&#038;redir_token=QUFFLUhqa0tEWVR1UjRyMXROUlZVZ1pDV3dsRjQ3SEtCd3xBQ3Jtc0ttaXJVdmxyc0J5eEpBVWFuV2c4Vnl1aWFuQy1EdkxZdXUzNEd0UjNUNHhlUHRjTm00QzlvakpXdDhQQm41dEp3UjlFU0xDeEozc3BkaTdjNDNuY19PYjZzdUFrWkF5MUdHSHB0bW5sSHM3eUlwbV9wMA&#038;q=https%3A%2F%2Fcommons.wikimedia.org%2Fw%2Findex.php%3Fcurid%3D514724&#038;v=qxzsqYqMixU\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/w\/index&#8230;<\/a> unless otherwise stated<\/p>\n<p>Footage used<br \/>\n<em>Memphis Belle: A Story of a Flying Fortress<\/em>, Directed by William Wyler (including on-board shots he took at the time on actual missions) \u2013 copyright Paramount Pictures 1944<br \/>\n<em>Target for Today<\/em> \u2013 US Army Air Forces Film Division, 1944<br \/>\n<em>The Rear Gunner<\/em> &#8211; The U.S. Army Signal Corps Photographic Section, Warner Bros. 1943<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HardThrasher Published 6 Jan 2024 If you&#8217;d like to be a cool kid, then become a Patreon or if you\u2019d like to email me send a message to lordhardthrasher@gmail.com 0:00 Intro 4:30 We&#8217;re Going to North Africa 1st 8:36 But you&#8217;re not doing it properly 16:16 Play it Again Ira 22:30 Mid 1943 \u2013 The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,1118,7,24,5,13,230],"tags":[123,145,572,1579,879,1447],"class_list":["post-93435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-britain","category-germany","category-history","category-japan","category-military","category-usa","category-ww2","tag-aircraft","tag-airforce","tag-leadership","tag-lordhardthrasher","tag-romania","tag-strategicbombing"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-oj1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93435","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93435"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93435\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":93436,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93435\/revisions\/93436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}