The Berlin Raids: The Bomber Battle, Winter 1943-1944
The Berlin Raids: The Bomber Battle, Winter 1943-1944 The Battle of Berlin was the longest and most sustained bombing offensive against one target in the Second World War. He dispatched nineteen…
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The Berlin Raids: The Bomber Battle, Winter 1943-1944
The Battle of Berlin was the longest and most sustained bombing offensive against one target in the Second World War. He dispatched nineteen major raids between August 1943 and March 1944 more than 10,000 aircraft sorties dropped over 30,000 tons of bombs on Berlin. Bomber Commands Commander-in-Chief, Sir Arthur Harris, hoped to wreak Berlin from end to end and produce a state of devastation in which German surrender is inevitable.
But Berlin was not destroyed and the RAF lost more than 600 aircraft and their crews. It was the RAFs supreme effort to end the war by aerial bombing. The controversy over whether the Battle of Berlin was a success or failure has continued ever since.Martin Middlebrook brings to this subject considerable experience as a military historian.
In preparing his material he collected documents from both sides (many of the German ones never before used);
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