RAF Fighter Command

American forces carried out a bombing campaign killing more than half a million people. The U.S. wanted to show everybody how powerful they were, but It wasn’t necessary to bomb civilians not taking part in the war. “Over the course of ten days, the RAF and the 8th Air Force devastate Hamburg with heavy bombing. The attack, named “Operation Gomorrah,” will leave more than 13 square miles destroyed and kill more civilians than the Germans’ entire Blitz over Great Britain in April 1942.” (PBS)…

After the attacks on Chicago and the “Days of Rage” though, the WU went underground, “into small, secret, action-oriented ‘affinity groups’ that were subject to the hierarchical command of the ‘Weather Bureau’” yet the disorganization of the “Weather Bureau” soon lead it its failure (Reich, 66-68). The focus of the WU soon became “not about revolution but about their hideouts, survival logistics, and internal group relations” totally…

The first indication that bombings might not be the ultimate way to destroy your enemy came during the Nazi’s invasion of France, when Hitler halted his troops on the “24 of May twenty miles outside Dunkirk” where a large group of allied forces had been surrounded. The reason for this halt being that Göring had promised Hitler that he could “bomb the enemy into submission”. Göring ultimately failed on his objective to destroy these allied forces for two reasons, one being that “bad weather…

Hermann Goering, born in Germany in 1893, was one of the leaders of the Nazi party. He organized the Nazi police force and established concentration camps. He fought in World War I and distinguished himself as a pilot, and he is credited with shooting down twenty-two allied aircrafts. He was known as a war hero, and that prestige made him a prime recruit for the Nazi party. “Nazism offered Goering the promise of action, adventure, and an outlet for his unreflective, elemental hunger for…

attempts for expansion of Germany. After obtaining the territory of Poland, Germany rapidly move on to invade the Soviet Union, Romania, Finland, Norway, Denmark and the Dutch just between 1939 and 1940. With many more to come and fall under the command of Germany, they continued to gain territory throughout World War Two taking what they wanted most, power. But why was Germany was so successful in early World War Two? Well, Germanys success is due to the charisma of their leader Adolf Hitler,…

destroying the RAF, before turning their attention to the destruction of London A key event in the Battle of Britain (known as Battle of Britain Day) took place on 15th September 1940. The Battle of Britain is about to begin.” The first German bombing raids took place on 10th July 1940. On this day, Germany launched a massive assault on London and filled the skies with a large number of bombers and fighter planes. Although exact figures are hard to come by, it is thought that about 1000 RAF…

achieve sea dominance. Similarly, when faced with a growing German threat, the French held steadfast to a curriculum of methodical war within their Command and Staff college. , Remarkably, even while the US, Britain, and Germany conducted numerous simulations in the 1920s validating wireless communication, mobile artillery, and decentralized command, the French held to the rigid belief that “le fue tue” (firepower kills doctrine) would…

The cold war was a nuclear standoff between a multitude of countries that supported two opposing political ideologies but was a collaboration between Russia and North Korea united against the North American superpowers. Canada became involved in the Cold War after Igor Gouzenko, a previous Russian spy, unveiled an undercover soviet organization that was collecting classified information about the Canadian government. To avoid an increase in soviet communist spies on Canadian soil, Canada…