{"id":99912,"date":"2025-12-26T04:00:58","date_gmt":"2025-12-26T09:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=99912"},"modified":"2026-02-15T18:02:31","modified_gmt":"2026-02-15T23:02:31","slug":"allied-bombing-1944-distraction-and-destruction-before-dresden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2025\/12\/26\/allied-bombing-1944-distraction-and-destruction-before-dresden\/","title":{"rendered":"Allied Bombing 1944 &#8211; Distraction and Destruction before Dresden"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"854\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/p9aNyiGP3vg?si=iG0vENdBtNYZ-OVH\" 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 25 Dec 2025<\/p>\n<p>Hello my little Christmas puddings; today&#8217;s film covers the strategic bombing forces in WW2, what they did to support Operation Overlord, the aerial war across France and into Germany during 1944, taking out enemy formations, V1 and V2 sites, and breaking up the Nazi oil fields in the process. But all did not go according to plan &#8230; this is the inbetweeny bit from June &#8211; December 1944 and the part everyone forgets before the Bulge, Dresden and all that &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>00:00:00 &#8211; Introduction<br \/>\n00:01:12 &#8211; A Word From Our Sponsor<br \/>\n00:03:25 &#8211; A Few Notes For New Viewers<br \/>\n00:04:02 \u2013 How End A War<br \/>\n00:06:25 \u2013 A 90 second (well 6 minutes) Recap of the story so far<br \/>\n00:12:15 \u2013 On With The Show<br \/>\n00:18:40 \u2013 The Key Players<br \/>\n00:20:10 \u2013 Enter Trafford Leigh-Mallory<br \/>\n00:24:05 \u2013 Trafford in Charge At the AEAF<br \/>\n00:26:15 \u2013 The Strategic Bombers Role In D-Day<br \/>\n00:27:29 \u2013 The Bombers As Part Of The Deception Plans<br \/>\n00:28:18 \u2013 Cutting Off Normandy<br \/>\n00:29:41 \u2013 The V1s, Poison Gas and Biological Warfare<br \/>\n00:37:31 \u2013 The One True Raid To End The War<br \/>\n00:41:50 \u2013 Self Harm in Normandy (It&#8217;s Trafford Time Again)<br \/>\n00:52:04 \u2013 Focus On Oil \u2013 Why, How and What Happened in 1944<br \/>\n01:05:00 \u2013 And on to Dresden<br \/>\n01:05:25 \u2013 Survivor&#8217;s Club<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Join the Hellfire Club here! &#8211; patreon.com\/LordHardThrasher<br \/>\nBuy Merch here! &#8211; hardthrasher-shop.fourthwall&#8230;.<br \/>\nEmail me here! \u2013 lordhardthrasher@gmail.com<br \/>\nTikTok &#8211; @lordhardthrasher<\/p>\n<p>i &#8211; <em>America&#8217;s Pursuit of Precision Bombing 1910-1945<\/em>, McFarland, Smithsonian Institution Press, 1995 p.93 &#038; on<br \/>\nii &#8211; TNA, AIR48\/67, USSBS Military Analysis Div Rpt No.4, 3rd Nov 1945<br \/>\niii &#8211; <em>The Most Dangerous Enemy<\/em>, Bungay, Aurum, 2000, p.322 &#038; 361<br \/>\niv &#8211; <em>Big Wing, The biography of Air Chief Marshal Sir Trafford Leigh-Mallory, KCB, DSO and Bar<\/em>, Dunn, Airlife, 1992, p.95 &#8211; and can I just say how much I absolutely do not recommend this book, it is drivel.<br \/>\nv &#8211; <em>Carl Spaatz Air and the Air War in Europe<\/em>, Davis, Centre for Airforce History, 1993 p.426<br \/>\nvi &#8211; <em>The Pathfinders<\/em>, Iredale, 2021, p.315<br \/>\nvii &#8211; <em>Pathfinders<\/em>, Iredale, 2021 p. 226<br \/>\nviii &#8211; <em>Carl Spaatz Air and the Air War in Europe<\/em>, Davis, Centre for Airforce History, 1993 p.432<br \/>\nix &#8211; <em>The Bombing War: Europe 1939-1954<\/em>, Overy, Penguin p.383-5<br \/>\nx &#8211; <em>Bomber Command&#8217;s War Against Germany<\/em>, from AIR41\/57. Pen &#038; Sword 2020  p.91<br \/>\nxi &#8211; <em>Carl Spaatz Air and the Air War in Europe<\/em>, Davis, Centre for Airforce History, 1993 p.434<br \/>\nxii &#8211; <em>Masters of the Air<\/em>, Donald Miller p.304-5<br \/>\nxiii &#8211; <em>Undaunted: Britain and the Commonwealth&#8217;s War in the Air 1939-1945<\/em>, Kite, Helion p.189<br \/>\nxiv &#8211; <em>Radar Bombing by the Eight Air Force<\/em>, Odishaw, 1946 p.88-89<br \/>\nxv &#8211; <em>Undaunted: Britain and the Commonwealth&#8217;s War in the Air 1939-1945<\/em>, Kite, Helion p.192<br \/>\nxvi &#8211; <em>Carl Spaatz and the Air War in Europe<\/em>, Davis, Centre for Airforce History, 1993, p. 443<br \/>\nxvii &#8211; <em>United States Strategic Bombing Survey 1945, Europe<\/em><br \/>\nxviii &#8211; <em>Masters of the Air<\/em>, Donald Miller, p.318<br \/>\nixx &#8211; <em>Carl Spaatz and the Air War in Europe<\/em>, Davis, Centre for Airforce History, 1993, p. 443<br \/>\nxx &#8211; <em>Dresden<\/em>, Taylor, Bloomsbury 2004 (from 2011 Electronic Ed.) p.228<br \/>\nxxi &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=UCWK-O7cKvc\" target=\"_blank\">RAF CASPS Historic Interview | Sir Arthur &#8230;<\/a>  <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HardThrasher Published 25 Dec 2025 Hello my little Christmas puddings; today&#8217;s film covers the strategic bombing forces in WW2, what they did to support Operation Overlord, the aerial war across France and into Germany during 1944, taking out enemy formations, V1 and V2 sites, and breaking up the Nazi oil fields in the process. 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