Avro Lancaster

John Sweetman's Tirpitz: Hunting the Beast recounts British attempts to neutralize the German battleship TIRPITZ during World War II. TIRPITZ spent most of the war in Norwegian waters threatening Allied convoys to Murmansk, as well as creating the potential to breakout into the Atlantic like her sister ship, BISMARCK. The British perception of the threat posed by TIRPITZ arguably exceeded its reality. But as a “fleet in being,” the German battleship required the Royal Navy to keep one modern

The Berlin Blockade is said to be the first major international crises of the Cold War. The basis of this blockade was to cut of Western Allies ' railway, road, and canal access to the eastern side of the city. The Soviets proposed an offer to the west, in which they would drop the blockade, if newly introduced Deutschmark currency was withdrawn from West Berlin. But seeing as though if they did agree, the German society would only crumble even further, so the westerners rejected the offer. The idea

Different policies and government authority were held in each sector in a manner to control the population and local and state governments. A currency reform took place in western Germany with the creation of an economically stable Deutschmark opposed to the former unstable German Reichsmark. An administration of the western zones was uniformly created, known first as the Bizone, which was the merging of the American and British territories on January 1st, 1947. The Trizone would later evolve which

introduction of the new long-range planes helped reduce the hazards of this dangerous portion of battle. Avro Lancaster was a British four-engined bomber which was implemented in warfare during the Battle of the Atlantic of the Second World War used by the Royal Air Force. It was first active as a strategic bombing offensive, and then became the main heavy bomber used by the RAF and RCAF. The Lancaster took upon the role of a long-range anti-submarine patrol aircraft and air sea rescue. It was also used

V-1710 engine, had limited high-altitude performance, so then in April 1942, the Allison V-1710 engine was replaced with the Merlin engine. The Merlin engine had proved reliable when powering the other American planes, such as Supermarine Spitfire, Avro Lancaster, and the de Havilland Mosquito. The result of the P-51 Mustang using the new Merlin engine was that the fighter plane could outclass German fighters in speed and acceleration (Sherman). The P-51 Mustang was different from its older brother, the

Civil aviation came about after World War one when pioneers explored new uses for aircraft, before that aircraft were only used for war purposes. In 1908 the British army developed aircraft, a few years before in 1904 J. E. Cooper, from the British war office, visited the Wright Brothers. His aim was to bring back information and skills on aircraft. This did not happen because the Wright brothers asked for $100,000 for the method of aircraft and a further $100,000 for the formulae and theoretical

State of WW2 (Background) By 1945, the war between the Allies and Germany was slowly reaching its end. To the west, “Nazi leader Adolf Hitler’s desperate counteroffensive against the Allies in Belgium’s Ardennes forest had ended in a total failure”. As well as in the east, it looked very hopeless for Germany(History.com Staff.). Meanwhile, the Western Allies began considering the use of strategic bomb to fight against Germany’s stubborn defense. “In January 1945, the Royal force began to consider

Allied strategic bombing of Germany during the Second World War was, in the main, significant. The key themes to be looked at in this essay are the effects that Allied Strategic Bombing had on the dislocation and demoralisation of German civilians; Germany’s economic ability to produce and transport goods for the war effort; other key aspects of the war and the German war effort and, finally, its impact on the USSR. The evidence of the effectiveness of Allied Strategic Bombing of Germany strongly

Strategic bombing is a military strategy used in total war, deployed with the goal of defeating the enemy, by destroying their morale or their economic ability to produce and transport material to the theatres of military operations. The four areas in which the significance of Allied strategic bombing will be assessed are: economic, diplomacy, morale and the effect it had on the fighting fronts in Europe. The First area of strategic bombing to be assessed is the effect it had on scattering the