What two main strategic bombing campaigns took place during WWII?

Answer 1

The Truth is that the main plans were based not on the place BUT ON COUNTRY. In the European and Mediterranean Campaign,the United States were all about using their Norton bomb sight and hit the target, and use a lot of bombs to pile on the target. The British were more about covering the target area with any kind of bombs, HE, Incendiary like in Dresden and The Tall boy and Grand Slam Earthquake bombs. The cute way of saying it was the Americans destroyed an area by aiming at a target, the British destroyed a target by aiming at the area. The Americans did turned to area incendiary bombing in the Pacific after they decided to use the Japanese building style against them. But, they stated with the same strategy as they used in Europe. Aiming and dropping the bombs at a spot ( Little Boy was aimed at a bridge near the center of town). Their was a problem, the jet stream pull their bombs off-target and made it useless.

Answer 2

The government of the Third Reich authorised the bombing of civilian targets from the first days of the war. The British government ordered the RAF to adhere strictly to the Amsterdam draft international rules prohibiting attacking civilian infrastructure outside the combat zones, but this adherence was abandoned on May 15, 1940, one day after the Rotterdam Blitz.[1][2] On August 24, 1940 some German aircraft strayed over London and dropped bombs in the east and northeast of the city. A period of reciprocal retaliation begun, mainly focussed on industrial areas. In February 1942 the British abandoned attempts at strategic precision bombing and with the issuing of the area bombing directive to the RAF, put most of their strategic bombing efforts into area bombardment and the "dehousing" of the German workforce.

The United States Government entered the war intending to use strategic precision bombing, which was used with mixed success in Europe and never abandoned as a policy. However over Japan because of the jetstream, strategic precision bombing proved to be a failure and the policy was abandoned in favour of policy of area bombardment.


In World War II aerial bombardment claimed the lives of over 100,000 airmen,[3] 60,595 British civilians and between 305,000 and 600,000 German civilians, [4][5] while American precision bombing, fire bombing and atomic bombing in Japan killed between 330,000 and 500,000 Japanese civilians

Answer 3

The incindenary bombing of Japan - main cities bombed by the Americans, such as Tokyo - most of Tokyo burned due to the fact that Tokyo was still developing into what it is today, and lots of the buildings were wood. This links onto Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombing.
Umn, the carpet bombing of Germany and Nazi controlled cities such as Dresden
for the Axis, I can only think of one, which is the
Blitz, where they bombed major UK cities, causing death, and destruction.
These were all strategic bombing campaigns, from aircraft during WW2,
artillary shelling now, there's alot of that, i.e. Io Jima (spelling?), The Rhine, Ardennes, Leningrad...
and from ships it would be D-day.
All strategic bombing shelling campaigns, during WW2

Answer 4

Destruction of key industrial targets through the use of heavy longe range bombers. The two campaigns were against the Nazis' and Japanese' industrial and in the end, civilian centers, eliminating their capacity to make war....as opposed to tactical and operational campaigns against military targets.

Controversy regarding strategic bombing was their use of carpet bombing on whole cities. The use of incendiaries and 2 nukes meant the deaths of thousands of civilians....

Answer 5

a million. began too overdue interior the year (1941), by utilising the time they reached Moscow, the coldest iciness in years hit and the Werhmact replaced into completely unprepared. 2. Guderian's Panzers have been diverted south on the gates to Moscow in 1941. 3. back in 1942, the Germans made the deadly mistake of splitting military team South in 2 culminating interior the debacle at Stalingrad and the failure to realize to Caucasus oil fields. 4. The Soviets have been right into a suggestions-set of ordering important and troop saving withdrawals. At Stalingrad the Germans lost 25% of their finished operational power interior the eastern front, a heavy blow by utilising all debts yet not decisive. it would although be the foremost element for Germany's not with the flexibility to end the conquest of Russia. 5. The Germans blew yet another possibility for the period of their offensive interior the summertime of 1943. against Guderian's opinion that the production of Tiger and Panther tanks must be as much as operational standards, Hitler released the sick fated offensive at Kursk. the outcomes being the destruction of the panzer armies. the certainty that the German nevertheless had the skill to launch an offensive of this magnitude in 1943 proves that Stalingrad replaced into not a decisive turning factor interior the conflict. From then on, it replaced into purely a delaying tactical conflict against the purple military. 6. on the western front, 2 errors are evoked: combating his tanks and permitting the BEF to flee to Britain by using Dunkirk, and switching from the bombing of airfields and radar stations to London and different cities....the RAF replaced into just about dropped at its knees till now that 'miracle.' 7. Hitler made the errors of diverting supplies to multiple designs, somewhat than choosing the final and staying with it... occasion is the multiple tank designs.

Answer 6

The oil fields of Polisti
The blitzkrieg of England and the bombing of Germany.

Answer 7

Carpet bombing of Germany
Incendiary bombing of Japan. .

But this link says it all. . . if only. .

http://carcino.gen.nz/images/index.php/00b9a680/5f333389

Hope this helps

Answer 8

Maybe this would help...goodluck...