After Germany surrendered on May 8th, 1945, WW2 was still raging in the Pacific because Japan wouldn't surrender. The American public and military were weary of the war, which had been going on for six years. American forces occupied Iwo Jima and Okinawa and also were firebombing Japanese ...
Misguided Faith in Our WW2 Bombing Tactics; Behind the Battle - Intelligence War with Germany 1939-45 . by Ralph Bennett (Pimlico, Pounds 12.50). Reviewed by Ross ReyburnLooking across the valley from Droitwich, Ralph Bennett, witnessed the most devastating German...Reyburn, Ross...
The United States began researching the power of an atomic bomb at the beginning of the war, fearing that scientists in Nazi Germany might beat them to the finish line and use the weapon against them. The United States brought together a huge team of scientists in the Manhattan Project, an...
ww2dbaseOn 16 Jul 1945, while President of the United States Harry Truman was at Potsdam, Germany to meet with his Allied counterparts, long-waited results reached him: The Manhattan Project, the American effort at building the atomic bomb, successfully detonated the first bomb during a test at...
But there is good reason to believe that the rationale for the obliteration of Dresden was for an altogether more sinister reason. It wasn’t so much an act of terror aimed at Nazi Germany, but rather a show of maniacal power to the Soviet Union. ...
Germany flew more than 100 strategic bombing raids using squadrons ofairshipsandairplanesagainst England, which resulted in the deaths of more than 1,400 people. During the interwar period the value of strategic bombing was recognized. Technological developments during that time, such as longer flyin...