Since the early 1930s air power advocates had claimed that aerial bombardment alone could defeat a nation. Yet by January 1945, while it had been the key to winning ground campaigns, from the German Blitzkrieg to the Allies' advance across the Pacific, air power had failed to demonstrate their most audacious claim: that strategic bombing, by itself, could win a war.
The United States sought to prove it by reducing the Japanese Home Islands' military and industrial capability through bombing alone until they had to surrender.
Since the early 1930s air power advocates had claimed that aerial bombardment alone could defeat a nation. Yet by January 1945, while it had been the key to winning ground campaigns, from the German Blitzkrieg to the Allies' advance across the Pacific, air power had failed to demonstrate their most audacious claim: that strategic bombing, by itself, could win a war.
The United States sought to prove it by reducing the Japanese Home Islands' military and industrial capability through bombing alone until they had to surrender.
Japan 1944-45: LeMay's B-29 strategic bombing campaign
96Japan 1944-45: LeMay's B-29 strategic bombing campaign
96Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9781472832467 |
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Publisher: | Bloomsbury USA |
Publication date: | 02/19/2019 |
Series: | Air Campaign , #9 |
Pages: | 96 |
Sales rank: | 1,000,404 |
Product dimensions: | 7.20(w) x 9.70(h) x 0.40(d) |