Bomber: Terror of WWII
There have been a catalogue of inventions in the history of warfare that have changed the way battles are fought, but one weapon changed not only the battlefield, but war itself: the bomber.
Director: Dan Jobson
Rise of the Bomber
The first bombs were dropped from balloons; in WWI, Zeppelins and German Gotha bombers made the first aerial attacks, but it was between the wars that the strategic use of…
War Without Boundaries
At the outbreak of WWII in 1939, some of the first violence took the form of the bomber; gas masks, shelters, and the evacuation of children were all signs of…
The Means to Victory
Tactics on both sides evolved in both attack and defence: the bomber and the defence against it became more effective through improvements to bomb sites, navigation, development of radar and…
The World at War
With the Battle of Britain over, the central experience of civilian bombing was suffered by Germany; in the Pacific War, the US and Japan successfully used bombing against naval and…
By Night and By Day
The firebombing of Tokyo signalled the power of the B29 bomber, the development of which exceeded in cost the Manhattan Project that produced the A-bomb.
Terror of the World
The last months of WWII saw the appearance of what Hitler believed to be the wonder weapons that would turn a lost cause into victory: cruise missiles (the V1) and…
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