Allied Bombing 1944 - Distraction and Destruction before Dresden

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Hello my little Christmas puddings; today' film covers the strategic bombing forces in ww2, what they did to support Overlord, the arieal war across France and into Germany during 1944, taking out enemy formations, V1 and V2 sites, and breaking up the Nazi Oil fields in the process. But all did not go according to plan….this is the inbetweeny bit from June - December 1944 and the part everyone forgets before the Bulge, Dresden and all that....

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i America's Pursuit of Precision Bombing 1910-1945, McFarland, Smithsonian Institution Press, 1995 p.93 & on
ii TNA, AIR48/67, USSBS Military Analysis Div Rpt No.4, 3rd Nov 1945
iii The Most Dangerous Enemy, Bungay, Aurum, 2000, p.322 & 361
iv Big Wing, The biography of Air Chief Marshal Sir Trafford Leigh-Mallory, KCB, DSO and Bar, Dunn, Airlife, 1992, p.95 - and can I just say how much I absolutely do not recommend this book, it is drivel.
v Carl Spaatz Air and the Air War in Europe, Davis, Centre for Airforce History, 1993 p.426
vi The Pathfinders, Iredale, 2021, p.315
vii Pathfinders, Iredale, 2021 p. 226
viii Carl Spaatz Air and the Air War in Europe, Davis, Centre for Airforce History, 1993 p.432
ix The Bombing War: Europe 1939-1954, Overy, Penguin p.383-5
x Bomber Command's War Against Germany, from AIR41/57. Pen & Sword 2020 p.91
xi Carl Spaatz Air and the Air War in Europe, Davis, Centre for Airforce History, 1993 p.434
xii Masters of the Air Donald Miller p.304-5
xiii Undaunted Britain and the Commonwealth's War in the Air 1939-1945, Kite, Helion p.189
xiv Radar Bombing by the Eight Airforce, Odishaw, 1946 p.88-89
xv Undaunted Britain and the Commonwealth's War in the Air 1939-1945, Kite, Helion p.192
xvi Carl Spaatz and the Air War in Europe, Davis, Centre for Airforce History, 1993, p. 443
xvii United States Strategic Bombing Survey 1945, Europe
xviii Masters of the Air Donald Miller, p.318
ixx Carl Spaatz and the Air War in Europe, Davis, Centre for Airforce History, 1993, p. 443
xx Dresden, Taylor, Bloomsbury 2004 (from 2011 Electronic Ed.) p.228
xxi    • RAF CASPS Historic Interview | Sir Arthur ...  

00:00:00 Introduction
00:01:12 A Word From Our Sponsor
00:03:25 A Few Notes For New Viewers
00:04:02 – How End A War
00:06:25 – A 90 second (well 6 minutes) Recap of the story so far
00:12:15 – On With The Show
00:18:40 – The Key Players
00:20:10 – Enter Trafford Leigh-Mallory
00:24:05 – Trafford in Charge At the AEAF
00:26:15 – The Strategic Bombers Role In D-Day
00:27:29 – The Bombers As Part Of The Deception Plans
00:28:18 – Cutting Off Normandy
00:29:41 – The V1s, Poison Gas and Biological Warfare
00:37:31 – The One True Raid To End The War
00:41:50 – Self Harm in Normandy (It’s Trafford Time Again)
00:52:04 – Focus On Oil – Why, How and What Happened in 1944
01:05:00 – And on to Dresden
01:05:25 – Survivor’s Club