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Bombardier Aircraft Dropping Bombs
Personal Photograph: Great- Grandfathers scrapbook. Photographer: Unknown.
In this was photograph is planes of my great-grandfathers fighter group dropping bombs to the grounds below. Bombings during World War II were very Strategic especially when it came to the aircraft. Kenneth P. Werress said “the bomber will always get through.” Guilio Douhet, Hugh Trenchard, and William Mitchell were three guys who helped develop a revolutionary doctrine of strategic bombing. These guys came up with bombers going to cities with devastating attacks of bombs full of gas and high explosives. The only bad thing was that technology was not near as high tech as it is today and so when the bombardier's were dropping bombs during World War II they never knew exactly when to drop them. It was very rare that the bomb would hit and go off on the exact spot that they wanted it to due to poor technology.
Major General Haywood S. Hansell, Jr. wrote about the Strategic Purposes, Plans and Preparations for the Air Offensive against Japan. He quotes, “The attack of Pearl Harbor roused an apathetic American into a fury of resentment and produced a tidal wave of emotion that swept over the carefully reasoned plans which had been prepared to meet a war emergency.” Once this war began there were tons of angry Americans. But America could not just go in a just start attacking they had to be calm and make up plans and prepare for what was about to happen. With everyone’s emotions flying since the Pearl Harbor attack everyone had a mindset strategy of “Japan first”. Hansell says that everyone was so angry with the Japanese that no one cared about Hitler and his Nazis at the time because everyone just wanted to kill all the Japanese for what they had just done to America.
Strategies during war are one of the most important things. If everyone just went running in like crazy to attack then the war would go crazy which means a lot more people would die. With a strategy everyone knows their plan and what they are to go in and do. It gets the job done a lot faster and smoother. During World War II, Americans became in control of the air. In January, Americans dropped approximately 3,190 high-explosive bombs. The bombs were mainly around 500-pround bombs. Americans dominated pretty much the whole war with their fighter jets and dropping bombs down on the enemies below.
Kenneth P. Werress, __The Strategic Bombing of Germany in World War II__, The Journal of American History 73 (Dec. 1986) 702.
Haywood S. Hansell, "Strategic Air War Against Japan" , (U.S. Government Printing office, 1983): 9.
Jesoph E. Loftus, __Strategy, Economics, and the Bomb__, The Scientific Monthly 68 (May 1949) 311.
For more information go to: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategic_bombing_during_World_War_II
Bombardier Aircraft Dropping Bombs
Personal Photograph: Great- Grandfathers scrapbook. Photographer: Unknown.
In this was photograph is planes of my great-grandfathers fighter group dropping bombs to the grounds below. Bombings during World War II were very Strategic especially when it came to the aircraft. Kenneth P. Werress said “the bomber will always get through.” Guilio Douhet, Hugh Trenchard, and William Mitchell were three guys who helped develop a revolutionary doctrine of strategic bombing. These guys came up with bombers going to cities with devastating attacks of bombs full of gas and high explosives. The only bad thing was that technology was not near as high tech as it is today and so when the bombardier's were dropping bombs during World War II they never knew exactly when to drop them. It was very rare that the bomb would hit and go off on the exact spot that they wanted it to due to poor technology.
Major General Haywood S. Hansell, Jr. wrote about the Strategic Purposes, Plans and Preparations for the Air Offensive against Japan. He quotes, “The attack of Pearl Harbor roused an apathetic American into a fury of resentment and produced a tidal wave of emotion that swept over the carefully reasoned plans which had been prepared to meet a war emergency.” Once this war began there were tons of angry Americans. But America could not just go in a just start attacking they had to be calm and make up plans and prepare for what was about to happen. With everyone’s emotions flying since the Pearl Harbor attack everyone had a mindset strategy of “Japan first”. Hansell says that everyone was so angry with the Japanese that no one cared about Hitler and his Nazis at the time because everyone just wanted to kill all the Japanese for what they had just done to America.
Strategies during war are one of the most important things. If everyone just went running in like crazy to attack then the war would go crazy which means a lot more people would die. With a strategy everyone knows their plan and what they are to go in and do. It gets the job done a lot faster and smoother. During World War II, Americans became in control of the air. In January, Americans dropped approximately 3,190 high-explosive bombs. The bombs were mainly around 500-pround bombs. Americans dominated pretty much the whole war with their fighter jets and dropping bombs down on the enemies below.
Kenneth P. Werress, __The Strategic Bombing of Germany in World War II__, The Journal of American History 73 (Dec. 1986) 702.
Haywood S. Hansell, "Strategic Air War Against Japan" , (U.S. Government Printing office, 1983): 9.
Jesoph E. Loftus, __Strategy, Economics, and the Bomb__, The Scientific Monthly 68 (May 1949) 311.
For more information go to: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategic_bombing_during_World_War_II