RAF Bomber Command Operations manual: insights into the organisation, equipment, men, machines and tactics of RAF Bomber Command 1939-1945
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Haynes Publishing
August 2018
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| Beschreibung: | 188 Seiten Illustrationen, Karten, Portraits |
| ISBN: | 9781785211928 |
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| adam_text | Introduction
Reaping the whirlwind
The rise of the bomber
The six-year offensive
Organisation
The chain of command
The groups
Front-line groups
Training groups
The squadrons
□
A new airfield-building programme
Lighting systems
A programme fraught with problems
Very Heavy Bomber upgrades
The end of the war
Bomber boys
The bomber crew
Bomber aircrew trades
Bomber aircrew commissioning policy
Training new crews
Tour length, survivability and morale
‘Lack of Moral Fibre’
The aircraft
Armstrong-Whitworth Whitley
Avro Lancaster
Avro Manchester
Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress
Handley Page Halifax
Handley Page Hampden
Lockheed Vega Ventura
North American B-25 Mitchell
Short Stirling
Vickers-Armstrong Wellington
Bombs and bullets
Contents
en*:
Finding the target
Navigation and bombing aids
Maps and charts for air navigation
Bombsights
26
29
31
35
36
Bomber tactics
38 Airfield building
Expansion Scheme bomber stations 40
Defending the Reich
44
48
49
49
49
The Kammhuber Line
Wurzburg radar
New tactics
Tracking and snaring the bombers
Fighter and flak control
Confounding the defenders
52
52
54
55
60
62
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‘The Air Ministry regrets’
‘For you the war is over’
Missing Research and Enquiry Service (MRES)
Finding the fallen
Identifying missing aircrew
War crimes against downed aircrew
76
77
78
79
79
80
104
107
109
Leading the way: the Pathfinders 114
Deceiving the enemy: 100 (Bomber Support) Group 116
Keys to survival 118
Meteorology in Bomber Command 121
126
126
128
128
130
133
136 Target for tonight
146 Failed to return
149
151
152
153
154
158
Ubendum, wemendum’ -
bomber repair and salvage
Bristol Blenheim 72 Spares versus complete aircraft 163
Consolidated B-24 Liberator 73 Repair options 164
De Havilland Mosquito 73 Shortages of essential parts 166
Douglas A-20 Boston 74 Manufacturers’ repair organisations 166
Fairey Battle 75 Engine repair 168
Operational research
il Research 172
Bomber Command’s Operational Research Section is formed 172
Fusing 86
Bomb-handling equipment 86
High-explosive bombs 89
Specialist HE bombs 91
Incendiary bombs (IB) 93
Cluster projectiles 93
Air-dropped sea mines 94
Guns and power-operated turrets 94
Guns 96
Power-assisted gun turrets 97
Investigating the bomber offensive
Data capture and analysis
Forward planning
Raid Reports
Returned aircrew data
Investigating the effectiveness of bombing
175
176
177
178
179
180
Appendix
RAF Bomber Command orders of battle
182
Bibliography and sources
Index
BOMBER COMMAND OPERATIONS MANUAL
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