After WWII, Germany was defeated, bankrupt, and mostly a pile of rubble from Allied bombing raids.
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One of the reasons for the low rate of target hits in the beginning of the war, was that the bombing raids were done at night and bombadiers had a hard time identifying the target. And when the allied bombers started bombing during the day, there was a couple of things that made it difficult to hit the target. One was that the amount of flak in the air as they got closer to the target and the resulting shaking of the plane. Another problem was the weather. Clouds could cover up the target.
Initially in the naval defence, then the bombing raids in Europe.
Because Nazi Germany was right on there home front, and the main island was attacked with bombing raids long before Japan unleashed their attack on America's Pearl Harbor.
the bombing campaign in japan was terrible. The u.s. used incendiary bombs which caused fires. japan was mostly wood structures, this is why it was so devistating.
People in Japan were rarely aware of small allied bombing raids, such as Doolittle's raid because the government did not publicly release that they had been bombed, in trying to continue to look invincible to the rest of the world.
After WWII, Germany was defeated, bankrupt, and mostly a pile of rubble from Allied bombing raids.
Some historians see that Grant's raids against Southern communications were similar to one of the principal objectives of strategic bombing in WW 2. Perhaps the truly successful part of Allied bombing of Germany in WW 2 was the Allied attack on German railroads. One significant difference was that Grant's raids on Southern railways was not intended to terrorize Southern civilians. Allied bombing of Germany in the middle of WW 2 not only were designed to destroy rail links but to bring terror to German civilians. Curiously the railway bombings failed to destroy rail links that transported Jews to the Nazi death camps.
20,000
In 1890.
The American aircraft was extremely important for bombing raids, such as the Doolittle raids or attacks on Germany from Allied bases in England. They also helped in the war in the Pacific, where aircraft carriers proved invaluable while fighting the Japanese.
Many parts of Germany were completely or majoritarily destroyed by Allied Bombing Raids or the invasion forces in 1944 and 1945. Most notably, Dresden was firebombed a such strong way that it has been described by some as an Allied War Crime. Of course, the Allied Bombing Raids were a result of the German-caused World War 2, but German civilians and cities still suffered.
The Pacific campaign against the Japanese consisted of "island hopping" where one island, or chain of islands, was taken at a time. Once an island was taken that was close enough to launch bombing raids from, the Japanese mainland was firebombed by Allied aircraft.
In round figures about 200,000. Similar to two thousand plane conventional fire bombing raids in the same period.
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