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WW2 The first conflict in which bombing of civilians was a deliberate policy (by both sides)

WW2 The first conflict in which bombing of civilians was a deliberate policy (by both sides). Air power became dominant in WW2. By the end of WW2, the USAAF had more than 2 million personnel and 80,000 planes. The British Royal Air Force was also very large.

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WW2 The first conflict in which bombing of civilians was a deliberate policy (by both sides)

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  1. WW2 The first conflict in which bombing of civilians was a deliberate policy (by both sides)

  2. Air power became dominant in WW2 By the end of WW2, the USAAF had more than 2 million personnel and 80,000 planes. The British Royal Air Force was also very large

  3. Strategic bombing of Germany and Japan • Over 3 million tons of bombs dropped on Germany; 500,000 on Japan • Goal was to destroy German and Japanese ability to wage war • Undermine civilians’ will to fight-in this it was largely unsuccessful

  4. Firebombing- Shock and Awe WWII Style • London Blitz 1940- 57 days and nights of bombings by Germany to lower morale, killing 15,000 civilians and leaving almost ½ million homeless. • Allied air raids killed 1.6 million civilians, more than 600,000 Germans. 7.5 million Germans left homeless • British and Americans used incendiary bombs to create huge destructive firestorms which sucked in oxygen and creates a mix of poisonous gases, killing people not only by fire but by suffocation as well. • In Dresden, Germany as many as 100,000 people may have died in firebombing of February 1945. • In Tokyo, US bombers in March 1945 used incendiary bombs to kill 100,000 peoplein one night

  5. Hamburg(1943)

  6. Fire Bombings: Dresden, Tokyo, London

  7. Firebombing of Tokyo March 9-10, 1945 100,000 dead 1 million injured 1 million lost their homes “Probably more persons lost their lives by fire at Tokyo in a 6-hour period than at any time in the history of man.” --U.S. Strategic Bombing Survey Killing Japanese didn't bother me very much at that time... I suppose if I had lost the war, I would have been tried as a war criminal. --U.S. Gen. Curtis LeMay, directed the firebombing campaign

  8. Dangerous missionshttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zp1teqL-TLc • More than 21,000 bombers lost over Germany • 56,000 of British heavy bomber crewmen died • USAAF lost 26,000 dead and 20,000 POWs in battle for Germany • “You were resigned to dying every night,”-British bomber pilot

  9. The Death of the Ball Turret Gunnerby Randall Jarrell • From my mother's sleep I fell into the State,And I hunched in its belly till my wet fur froze.Six miles from earth, loosed from the dream of life,I woke to black flak and the nightmare fighters.When I died they washed me out of the turret with a hose.

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