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Bombs Away!: The World War II Bombing Campaigns Over Europe
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Bombs Away!: The World War II Bombing Campaigns Over Europe Hardback - 2013

by John R. Bruning

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Bombs Away! covers strategic bombing in Europe during World War II, that is, all aerial bombardment of a strategic nature which took place between 1939 and 1945. In addition to American (U.S. Army Air Forces) and British (RAF Bomber Command) strategic aerial campaigns against Germany, this book covers German use of strategic bombing during the Nazi's conquest of Europe: the Battle of Britain, Operation Barbarossa, and the V 1 and V 2, where the Luftwaffe targeted Warsaw and Rotterdam (known as the Rotterdam Blitz). In addition, the book covers the blitzes against London and the bombing of other British industrial and port cities, such as Birmingham, Liverpool, Southampton, Manchester, Bristol, Belfast, Cardiff, and Coventry bombed during the Battle of Britain.

The twin Allied campaigns against Germanya the USAAF by day, the RAF by nighta built up into massive bombing of German industrial areas, notably the Ruhr, followed by attacks directly on cities such as Hamburg, Kassel, Pforzheim, Mainz, Cologne, Bremen, Essen, Dusseldorf, Hanover, Dortmund, Frankfurt, and the still controversial fire-bombing of Hamburg and Dresden. In addition to obvious targets like aircraft and tank manufacturers, ball bearing factories and plants that manufactured abrasives and grinding wheels were high priority targets. Petroleum refineries were a key target with USAAF aircraft based in North Africa and later Italy, bombing the massive refinery complexes in and around Ploesti, Romania, until August 1944 when the Soviet Red Army captured the area. Other missions included industrial targets in southern Germany like Regensburg and Schweinfurt. Missions to the Nazi capital, Berlin, started in 1940 and continued through March 1945. Throughout the war there were 314 air raids on Berlin.

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  • Title Bombs Away!: The World War II Bombing Campaigns Over Europe
  • Author John R. Bruning
  • Binding Hardback
  • Edition 2nd edition
  • Pages 292
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Crestline, NY
  • Publication date 2013-09
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9780785830238 / 0785830235
  • Weight 4.5 lbs (2.04 kg)
  • Dimensions 12 x 10.6 x 1.1 in (30.48 x 26.92 x 2.79 cm)
  • Category History - Military / War
  • Dewey Decimal Code 940.544

About the author

John R. Bruning has been a professional military historian and writer since 1990. He is the author of Crimson Sky: The Air Battle for Korea, The Battle of the Bulge: The Photographic History of an American Triumph, Ship Strike Pacific, Luck of the Draw, and The Devil's Sandbox: With the 2nd Battalion, 162nd Infantry at War in Iraq. He served as an embedded civilian historian with the 2/162 during Operation Southern Comfort, the post--Hurricane Katrina relief operation in New Orleans. Bruning also has numerous articles, documentaries, and museum displays to his credit. He lives in Independence, Oregon.

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