Bomber War Ep.5 - Onto the Offensive - A Remarkable Victory

If you’d like to be a cool kid, then become a Patreon here -   / lordhardthrasher   or if you’d like to email me send a message to lordhardthrasher@gmail.com In 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 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butt_... https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Area_... https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casab... Selected Bibliography America’s Pursuit of Precision Bombing 1910-1945, McFarland Absolute War – Chris Bellamy Absolute War – The Firebombing of Tokyo Big Week – James Holland Black Snow- James M Scott Bomber Boys – Kevin Wilson Bomber Command – Max Hastings Bomber Offensive – Sir Arthur Harris GCB, OBE, AFC Bomber Command’s War Against Germany, An Official History – Nobel Franklin et al. The Bomber Mafia – Malcolm Gladwell Carl Spaatz and the European Air War – Richard Davis et al. (1993) Dresden – Sinclair McKay Dresden; Tuesday….. – Fredrick Taylor Serenade for the Big Bird – Bert Stiles (1944) 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... https://history.state.gov/historicald... - The Combined Bomber Offensive guiding charter, Enclosure B Photos used published under Creative Commons - Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index... unless otherwise stated P-47 and all things flying, check out @Greg's Airplanes and Automobiles    • P-47 Thunderbolt   B-17, Lancaster, Bomber, WW2, Second World War, Nazis, Air War, USAF, USAAF, RAF, Bomber Command, Charles Portal, Carl Spaatz, Tedder, Arthur, Hap Arnold, Eisenhower, Eike, Dwight, Spitfire, FW190, Bf109, Area Bombing