{"id":95504,"date":"2025-05-08T04:00:32","date_gmt":"2025-05-08T08:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=95504"},"modified":"2025-05-07T15:51:01","modified_gmt":"2025-05-07T19:51:01","slug":"dambusters-was-it-worth-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2025\/05\/08\/dambusters-was-it-worth-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Dambusters &#8211; Was It Worth It?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"854\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/yhUgLxFl5Bk?si=y_oniHMBZUSKRJDG\" 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 5 May 2025<\/p>\n<p>The third and final part in a series on the Dambusters Raid; looking at the attacks themselves and their aftermath<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Merch! <a href=\"https:\/\/hardthrasher-shop.fourthwall.com\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/hardthrasher-shop.fourthwall.com<\/a><br \/>\nBluesky!! @lordhardthrasher.bsky.social<br \/>\nPatreon!!! &#8211; patreon.com\/LordHardThrasher<\/p>\n<p>References for the economics and damage stuff at the end<\/p>\n<p>P.252-259, Hastings, <em>Chastise<\/em> (2019); p.429-461, Holland, <em>Dambusters<\/em> (2012);  p.597-652, Tooze, <em>Wages of Destruction<\/em> (2006); Chpt 10, Section 1-15, Chpt 15, Sec 3-12, <em>Air Battle of the Ruhr<\/em>, Cooper (1992); p182-184, 255-257 &#038; 306-309, <em>Speer &#8220;Hitler&#8217;s Architect&#8221;<\/em>, Kitchen (2015); p.178-193, <em>Rhetoric and Reality in Air Warfare<\/em>, Davis-Biddle (2002); Chpt. VII, <em>The Bomber Offensive<\/em>, Harris (1947); p.203 and on, <em>Official History of the Bomber Offensive<\/em>, Various, AIR41\/57 republished 2020 &#8230; after that I really can&#8217;t be arsed to list them &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Bibliography<br \/>\nAs above<br \/>\nJames Holland &#8211; <em>Dambusters<\/em> (2012)<br \/>\nMax Hastings &#8211; <em>Chastise<\/em> (2019)<br \/>\nGuy Gibson &#8211; <em>Enemy Coast Ahead<\/em> (1945)<br \/>\nBarnes Wallis &#8211; <em>A Note On A Means Of Attacking The Axis Powers<\/em> (1941)<br \/>\nAdam Tooze &#8211; <em>Wages of Destruction<\/em> (2006)<br \/>\nPaul Brickhill &#8211; <em>Dambusters<\/em> (1952)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HardThrasher Published 5 May 2025 The third and final part in a series on the Dambusters Raid; looking at the attacks themselves and their aftermath<\/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":[4,1118,7,5,663,230],"tags":[711,572,1579,690,1447],"class_list":["post-95504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-britain","category-germany","category-history","category-military","category-weapons","category-ww2","tag-infrastructure","tag-leadership","tag-lordhardthrasher","tag-specialforces","tag-strategicbombing"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-oQo","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95504","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=95504"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95504\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":95505,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95504\/revisions\/95505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}