{"id":98153,"date":"2025-09-29T04:00:16","date_gmt":"2025-09-29T08:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=98153"},"modified":"2025-09-27T17:37:51","modified_gmt":"2025-09-27T21:37:51","slug":"bomber-command-1943-reap-what-you-sow-the-bomber-war-ep6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2025\/09\/29\/bomber-command-1943-reap-what-you-sow-the-bomber-war-ep6\/","title":{"rendered":"Bomber Command 1943 &#8211; Reap What You Sow &#8211; The Bomber War Episode 6."},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"854\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/LcS5KzlYxmY?si=JBQZChKMn-4QQ_AE\" 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 26 Sep 2025<\/p>\n<p>Part 1 of a 2 Part Series covering Bomber Command in 1943 &mdash; this is the background and build up, the aircraft, the founding of pathfidner force and the mechanics behind the mass use of incendiaries <\/p>\n<p>References from the video below<\/p>\n<p>i  <em>Battle of the Beams<\/em>, Tom Whipple, Penguin, 2003, p.209<br \/>\nii <em> The Battle of the Beams<\/em>, Whipple, Penguin, 2003, p.213<br \/>\niii  <em>The Bombing War<\/em>, Overy, Penguin, 2012, p.345<br \/>\niv  <em>The Pathfinders<\/em>, Will Iredale, Penguin, 2021, p.116 and on<br \/>\nv  <em>The Bombing War<\/em>, Overy, Penguin, 2012, p.238<br \/>\nvi  See Caliban Rising&#8217;s excellent video on statistical deaths for Bomber Command<br \/>\nvii  <em>B12\/36, The British Aircraft Specifications File<\/em>, Meekcoms &#038; Morgan, Air-Britain, 1994, p.228<br \/>\nviii  <em>The Bombing War<\/em>, Overy, Penguin, 2012, p.290-91<br \/>\nix  <em>The Pathfinders<\/em>, Will Iredale, Penguin, 2021 p.74<br \/>\nx  <em>Proceedings of the Royal Air Force Historical Society<\/em>, Issue No 6, Sept 1989, p.22<br \/>\nxi  <em>The Pathfinders<\/em>, Iredale, Penguin, 2021, p.75<br \/>\nxii  <em>The Pathfinders<\/em>, Iredale, Penguin, 2021, 2021 p.79<br \/>\nxiii  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/redirect?event=video_description&#038;redir_token=QUFFLUhqa0dERXAxak9xN3gyTWQtUkNyQnBIVzB2Y3F1d3xBQ3Jtc0tucmI1OUpScTY3NmwybE9ncDZ3cGtBMXhTUGpLQjVrVkZWOHhVNkdtLUU1azUxV2NxejJKUXEyQzgtUXJMRHBKSzhDMFM2NllxcEVfaUJJRUtQRl9OaFlDRkl6VHpmeFVQS0lnZHAzQzM4cFVLZVVCTQ&#038;q=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FWilfrid_Freeman&#038;v=LcS5KzlYxmY\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wilfrid&#8230;<\/a> &#8211; yes, yes I know, a Wiki reference.<br \/>\nxiv  Interview 1977 for the RAF Centre for Air Power Studies (CASPS) &#8211;    \u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=_JihH2VSiqU\" target=\"_blank\">RAF CASPS Historic Interview | Group Capta&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\nxv  <em>Pathfinder<\/em>, Goodall, 1988 pp. 102, 158, 205<\/p>\n<p>email &#8211; hardthrasher@gmail.com<br \/>\nMerch &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/hardthrasher-shop.fourthwall.com\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/hardthrasher-shop.fourthwall.com<\/a><br \/>\nPatreon &#8211;  patreon.com\/LordHardThrasher<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HardThrasher Published 26 Sep 2025 Part 1 of a 2 Part Series covering Bomber Command in 1943 &mdash; this is the background and build up, the aircraft, the founding of pathfidner force and the mechanics behind the mass use of incendiaries References from the video below i Battle of the Beams, Tom Whipple, Penguin, 2003, [&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":[4,1118,7,5,663,230],"tags":[145,572,1579,513,1447],"class_list":["post-98153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-britain","category-germany","category-history","category-military","category-weapons","category-ww2","tag-airforce","tag-leadership","tag-lordhardthrasher","tag-research","tag-strategicbombing"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-px7","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98153","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=98153"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98153\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":98155,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98153\/revisions\/98155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}