This is part two of a two-part blog about U.S. casualties in the air over Europe during World War 2. Click here to read part I of Wild Blue Yonder.
As we observed last week, flying a bomber over Germany was by its very nature dangerous business. Anyone who looks at it fairly, however, has to admit that some of the problems might have been avoidable.
There were a number of specious ideas “in the air” in those days. The untried doctrine of “precision daylight bombing” to which U.S. air forces were wedded, for example, ran into the reality of fully alerted and heavily echeloned German antiaircraft defenses …
This post originally appeared on World War II magazine’s Front and Center blog; click here to read the rest of this post and find more blog entries on the Second World War by Rob Citino.
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