by jamesyoung | Jun 23, 2017 | Air Warfare, B-Sides and Outtakes
So remember when I said I had reading list? Well, I can do even better than that–I have an entire historiographical paper about the Allied Bombing Campaign in World War II. It’s a bit dated (I wrote it back in 2006), but the end notes and bibliography...
by jamesyoung | Jun 22, 2017 | Air Warfare
Having covered the Western Campaign, the Battle of Britain, and the first phase of RAF Bomber Command’s assault on the Third Reich, it’s time to start the United States’ portion of the Strategic Bombing Campaign. Again, in the interest of brevity,...
by jamesyoung | Jun 11, 2017 | Air Warfare
So, remember way back when I said I was going to do fighter history and bombing history separate? Yeah, I refreshed my memory on bombing during World War I. *insert yawn here* I mean, it happened. There were even a few times it was effective in the “we made a...
by jamesyoung | Feb 26, 2017 | Air Warfare
When last we left this journey through aerial mayhem, France had just been knocked out of the war, the British Army was busy thanking every boat owner in Southern England while wringing out their clothes, and the Luftwaffe had just learned how to say “Acthung!...
by jamesyoung | Feb 16, 2017 | Air Warfare
“The Axis have won the toss and will kickoff.”–Aries, Head Referee, Great European Rematch, 1939-1945 Four things I’m going to assume with this blog post: 1.) You read the last blog post on aerial combat and liked it. 2.) Everyone involved...
