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L. Douglas Keeney. The Combined Bomber Offensive 1943 - 1944: The Air Attack on Nazi Germany
The Combined Bomber Offensive 1943 - 1944: The Air Attack on Nazi Germany. L. Douglas Keeney
Acknowledgments
FOREWORD
TARGET SELECTION FOR THE COMBINED BOMBER OFFENSIVE - Early Planning: 1941-1942
THE CASABLANCA CONFERENCE
The Report of the Committee of Operations Analysts
The Combined Bomber Offensive Plan and Directive
Judgments Concerning the Selection of Targets
THE FIRST PHASE OF THE COMBINED BOMBER OFFENSIVE APRIL – JUNE 1943. Size of the United States Forces
General Nature of First-Phase Operations
The Defense of the Day Bomber
Day Operations in Accordance with CBO Target Systems
Submarine Installations
GAF Facilities
Rubber
Motor Vehicles
The RAF Attack on the Ruhr
The Tentative Results of First-Phase Attacks
THE SECOND PHASE OF THE COMBINED BOMBER OFFENSIVE, July – September 1943. Organization and Build-Up Problems
Magnitude and Rate of Operations
Problems of Defense and Bombing Accuracy
Pattern of Day-Bombing Operations
Ball-bearings
Opertation STARKEY
Night Operations of the Eighth Air Force
RAF Bomber Command Operations
THE THIRD PHASE OF THE COMBINED BOMBER OFFENSIVE, OCTOBER – DECEMBER 1943. Organizational Developments
Magnitude and Rate of Third-Phase Operations from the United Kingdom
Defensive Side of Third-Phase Operations
Blind Bombing Initiated by the Eighth Air Force
Patter of Third-Phase Daylight Operations
Aircraft Facilities
Port Cities, Submarine and Ship Building
Antifriction Bearings
Oil
Miscellaneous Operations
Eight Missions by the Eighth Air Force
RAF Operations, Fourth Quarter 1943
CONCLUSION
STRATEGIC BOMBING
COMBINED BOMBER OFFENSIVE PLANS JANUARY – JUNE 1944
TARGET SELECTION UNDER PRIORITY SYSTEMS
ORGANIZATION OF THE UNITED STATES STRATEGIC AIR FORCES
WEAPONS AND DEFENSE
ATTACK ON AIRFRAMES, AERO-ENGINES, AND AIRFIELDS
ATTACK ON THE BALL BEARING INDUSTRY
TRANSPORTATION
ATTACK ON OIL, CHEMICALS, AND RUBBER
CONCLUSION
APPENDIX
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Original manuscript found at the Air Force Historical Research Agency, Maxwell Air Force Base, Alabama
All Photographs: Courtesy The National Archives
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It further stated that the destruction of the selected individual targets within those systems would achieve the elimination of commanding fractions of enemy production within the affected industries:
The German aircraft industry was placed second in the priority list of target systems, but the plan stated that German fighter strength was an intermediate objective of the bomber offensive second to none. That is to say that the German fighter force and to be destroyed before the combined bomber offensive, especially the American part of it, could b successful. It was pointed out in this connection that German fighter production had increased 44% and fighter strength on the Western front had nearly doubled since the entry of the United States into the war.
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