Targeting the Third Reich : Air Intelligence and the Allied Bombing Campaigns /

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The author reexamines the bombings of Germany, totaling more than 1.4 million missiles, that took out oil refineries, industries, and transportation infrastructures vital to the Reich's war effort. While other accounts have focused on operational details, this is the first book to reveal the cr...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ehlers, Robert
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Lawrence, Kan. : University Press of Kansas, 2009.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
United States. > Army Air Forces.
Great Britain. > Royal Air Force.
United States. > Army Air Forces > History > World War, 1939-1945.
Great Britain. > Royal Air Force > History > World War, 1939-1945.
Weltkrieg II > Luftkrieg > Spionage und Geheimdienst.
Weltkrieg II > Spionage und Geheimdienst > Luftkrieg.
Geallieerden.
Bombardementen.
Weltkrieg > 1939-1945
Luftaufklärung
Luftwaffe
Military operations, Aerial > British.
Military operations, Aerial > American.
Military intelligence.
Military campaigns.
Bombing, Aerial.
Aerial reconnaissance.
HISTORY > Military > General.
Service des renseignements militaires > Europe > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Reconnaissance aerienne > Europe > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Bombardement aerien > Europe > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Guerre mondiale, 1939-1945 > Operations aeriennes britanniques.
Guerre mondiale, 1939-1945 > Campagnes et batailles > Front occidental.
World War, 1939-1945 > Military intelligence.
Military intelligence > Europe > History > 20th century.
Aerial reconnaissance > Europe > History > 20th century.
Bombing, Aerial > Europe > History > 20th century.
World War, 1939-1945 > Aerial operations, American.
World War, 1939-1945 > Aerial operations, British.
World War, 1939-1945 > Campaigns > Europe.
Duitsland.
USA
Grossbritannien
Germany.
Europe.
Allemagne > Histoire > 1933-1945.
Germany > History > 1933-1945.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Description
Summary:The author reexamines the bombings of Germany, totaling more than 1.4 million missiles, that took out oil refineries, industries, and transportation infrastructures vital to the Reich's war effort. While other accounts have focused on operational details, this is the first book to reveal the crucial role of air intelligence in these dramatic campaigns. The author describes the close ties that developed between the Royal Air Force's "precision intelligence" arm and the U.S. Army Air Force's "precision bombardment" forces, telling how the RAF's photographic reconnaissance and signals intelligence steered both British and American bombers to the right targets at the right intervals with the right munitions. Drawing on a huge collection of bomb-damage assessment photographs and a wealth of other archival sources, he shows that the success of the war can be traced directly to the success of air intelligence.
Physical Description:1 online resource (440 pages): illustrations, maps.
ISBN:9780700621811

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