Germany 's Second World War II

The technological developments during the campaign affected the significance of the bombing of Germany during the Second World War. In 1939-1941, there were less planes, or navigational

The vastly improved technology on the B-29 bomber allowed it to do something no other plane could do before. This was easily and safely invading enemy airspace (“bomber”). It easily invaded enemy airspace by flying higher than other planes could easily dispatch and flying faster than it took the enemies to realize there had even been a bomber until the bomb struck and the bomber was safe and sound away from the blast. That way many less dogfights had to take place and entire armies did not have to be sent to attack a target that could be brought down much more efficiently (Powell 417). The planes abilities were used to target weak points of the other side and terrorise the enemies of the Allied powers. There was much less deaths of attackers and much more success when they used airplanes.

In this essay I will assess the significance of strategic bombing of Germany. I will do this by evaluating four key areas of the German war effort. This will include German and British moral, German economy, its effect on the outcome of the Eastern Front and the results of the preparation for D-Day. Overall allied bombing did not have a significant impact on the outcome of the war as for the majority of the war bombing techniques and technology were primitive and so had little effect. It only became a threatening tool latter on in the war, when the allies had effectively won.

Britain’s air force was a vital part of their military and defence when Hitler attempted to gain air superiority over England through the German Luftwaffe which was led by Hermann Göering. The radar system used to detect aerial attack in Britain was flawed in the beginning of the war and there was a shortage of anti-air craft guns. Radar could not predict the size and height of incoming enemy bombers and lacked detail that was necessary and vital for effective defence preparations. At the start of the Blitz, there were only 92 anti-air craft guns to defend London and the guns were outdated with a terrible fire control system.

The First World War was monumental in history because of all the new technology that was introduced. One particular area that developed during the Great War was the use of airplanes by the German and Allied militaries. In comparison, they both had different mentalities towards an invention that was only made successful less than a decade before the outbreak of war in 1914 by the Wright Brothers in North Carolina, United States. The German Military welcomed the idea with open arms, investing in its potential for military uses, whereas the Allies remained reserved and hesitant, claiming that aircraft could not be used for anything more offensive than reconnaissance missions. These differences in opinions later affected the development of each air force. The German military kept making monthly improvements to their equipment whereas the allied pilots were slow in their respective air forces evolution. However, there was a common progression that both militaries had which was the slow phasing out of the cavalry on either side due to the effectiveness of the aircrafts reconnaissance capabilities. During the World War One, the German military took advantage of the new technology available to them, which gave significant results, whereas the Allies had a more traditional mindset for the beginning of the conflict.

The significance of the bombing has to be considered in relation to its cost. It took up 7% of Britain’s war effort; 120,000 American and British airmen died; and 21,000 bombers were lost. Some argue that the money should have been spent on developing and building better surface ships and tanks and that, as the British Naval blockade had suffocated Germany of much needed resources, its defeat was inevitable

Richard Overy’s book “Why the Allies Won” is a great read for those who are intrigued by World War II alternate histories. Overy gives unique insights on the large scaled picture regarding how the war went throughout each of his chapters. The book identifies that the resulting Allied victory was not inevitable, and then it points out the factors that contributed to making the Allied victory possible.

"World War 2 was a war fought in two distinct phases. The first was the last war of a new generation. The second was emphatically the first of a new era" . <br><br>"The British strategic bomber campaign was of doubtful cost effectiveness" . Bomber Command was by far the largest claimant on labour and factory space within the armed forces. Relative to their size they suffered more casualties than any other sector. <br><br>The Anglo-American bomber force was divided in terms of strategy. Bomber Command believed it was too risky to bomb by day, while the Americans believed it was too difficult to bomb by night. Initially both forces lacked accurate navigational equipment, which deterred them from precision bombing. <br><br>Germany developed a

involvement in the war was the bombing they were able to throw at Germany constantly. Because the U.S. used the high altitude B-17, the bombing runs had to be done during the day so the pilots could hit their targets. Since, the bombers rarely had escorts during their bombing runs; the B-17 planes would fly in tight, box formations, which allowed the bombers to overlap their machine-gun fire for protection. The tight formations that the bombers flew in were also their weakness, allowing them to get hit from Luftwaffe fighters, making the U.S. bombing runs have a high number of casualties. Later on in the war, with the invention of the P-51 Mustang the number of casualties from the bombing runs dropped

It can be argued that Britain and its allies won the war because of its research labs and its code breaking facilities; the British War production rose after all German resources were focused on strategic bombing tactics which eventually grounded to a halt. The allocation of resources proved decisive in real gain for the allies in cutting off essential German resources for example; “the crippling of the German fuel supply was achieved with only about 0.6% of the bombs dropped on Europe and 1.3% of the bombs dropped on Germany”

The establishment and increase of the Royal Air Force was because the Germans had positioned themselves as great threats with their Luftwaffe air defense air force. The British Royal Air Force therefore first adopted an expansion strategy of airfields and increased the number of squadrons (Overy, 2005). Its development combined the newly developed radar with communication centers to direct the fighters. According to Overy (2005), the British developed both medium and large bombers who had the capacity of invading Ruhr, German’s industrial center. The rapid expansion lead to the integration training of other common wealth nations and soon became the second largest in Europe. The leadership of the Royal Air Force was under three combat commands based in the United Kingdom. They included the fighter commander, the bomber commander and the coastal commander. The British Royal Air Force influenced the Second World War greatly. It participated in two major areas of attack. The first attack was the strategic bombing against the German war production sector and the second one was a lesser bombing of the coastal mining waters of Germany in order to contain Germany’s naval operations. In the spring of 1944, Eisenhower gained command of the Army Air Core and prepared for Operation

The Battle of Britain was a major campaign during World War II, in which aircraft played an important role. The policy towards Germany's aggressive acts before the war had been one of pacification. Unfortunately, this left the Western powers with a deficient military and unprepared for war when it began. The Germans swept through Europe. They defeated Poland in September 1939 to start World War II.

Through bombing of German cities the Allies could to make sure their victory.  The AAF won daylight superiority towards 1944, which left the Nazis with many casualties. Having the upper hand here also helped the Allies out on D-Day, by losing fewer men than they would have.  " Rescue and repair activities. The strategic bombing also forced the GAF to change its priorities. In 1941 the Luftwaffe employed 65 percent of its aircraft on the eastern front; in 1944 it used only 32 percent there. Certainly that shift helps to explain, to some degree, German successes in 1941 and German failures in 1944."( Kenneth P. Werrell )   We also would bomb industrious places (oil factories) so that the Germans would have that much less oil or other crucial product that they needed for the war effort.  This theory  thought of by the U.S.  is known as the  "strategic interdiction, which the Allies used to cut the enemy’s capacity to field forces by destroying the production facilities that manufactured weapon

In this essay, I will explain how the impact of new technology (e.g. aircraft) on methods that were used to fight in the air in WW1 and WW2.

Americans believed that the Germans had already built some form of flying saucer. Hitler's aeronautical engineers had beaten the Allies several times during World War II, and the fear was that they had gotten the jump once again on a vertical take-off machine. The U.S. was determined to build a saucer-like craft that would rise from undeveloped areas and take down the enemy's long-range