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Burning Japan : Air Force Bombing Strategy Change in the Pacific /

Burning Japan is an investigation of how and why the air force shifted its tactics against Japan from a precision bombing strategy to area attacks. The guiding doctrine of the 1930s and 1940s called for focused attacks on specific targets deep behind enemy lines. Eager to prove itself, the nascent A...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Schwabe, Daniel T., 1980-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: [Lincoln, Nebraska] : Potomac Books, an imprint of the University of Nebraska Press, [2015]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The origins of destruction
  • The makings of a mission
  • Planning Japan's demise
  • Hansell's 21st Bomber Command
  • Losses per unit of target destruction
  • Down the path of destruction
  • Death throes
  • Interpreting the campaign.