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WW2: The ascendancy of air power - PowerPoint Presentation

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WW2: The ascendancy of air power - PPT Presentation

WW2 the first conflict in which bombing of civilians was a deliberate policy by both sides Bombers dominant image of WW2 140000 British and American fliers dead 21000 bombers destroyed Strategic bombing ID: 614521

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WW2: The ascendancy of air powerSlide2

WW2: the first conflict in which bombing of civilians was a deliberate policy (by both sides)Slide3

Bombers: dominant image of WW2

140,000 British and American fliers dead, 21,000 bombers destroyedSlide4

Strategic bombing

 

used

in total war in which whole areas are bombed with

the goal of defeating the enemy by destroying their morale and

economic

ability

to wage warSlide5

Firebombing- Shock and Awe WWII Style

Allied air raids killed 1.6 million civilians, more than 600,000 Germans. 7.5 million Germans left homeless

London Blitz 1940- 57 days and nights of bombings by Germany to lower morale killing 15,000 civilians and leaving almost ½ million homeless.

British and Americans used incendiary bombs to create firestorms (multiple fires started) which sucks in oxygen and creates a mix of poisonous gases. Slide6

Hamburg 1943: Operation Gomorrah

More than 40,000 dead

1 million refugees

250,000

homes destroyed

Temperatures of 1500 degrees

Fire was 1000 feet in height

Winds of 150 mphSlide7

Firebombing of Tokyo March 9-10, 1945

100,000 dead

1 million injured

1 million lost their homes

“Probably more persons lost their lives by fire at Tokyo in a 6-hour period than at any time in the history of man.”

--U.S. Strategic Bombing Survey

Killing Japanese didn't bother me very much at that time... I suppose if I had lost the war, I would have been tried as a war criminal.

--

U.S. Gen. Curtis

LeMay

, directed the firebombing campaignSlide8

August 1945: U.S. drops Atomic bombs on Hiroshima and NagasakiSlide9
Slide10

The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner

by Randall Jarrell

From my mother's sleep I fell into the

State,

And I hunched in its belly till my wet fur froze.

Six miles from earth, loosed from the dream of life,

I woke to black flak and the nightmare fighters.

When I died they washed me out of the turret with a hose. Slide11

Dangerous missions,

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zp1teqL-TLc