Masters of the Air - The Bomber War Episode 4 - 8th Airforce 1942-1943

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0:00 Intro
4:30 We’re Going to North Africa 1st
8:36 But you’re not doing it properly
16:16 Play it Again Ira
22:30 Mid 1943 – The Crisis Begins
26:53 The Black Summer
28:03 Operation Tidal Wave
34:21 Into The Valley of Death – Schweinfurt
41:34 What Now?
48:37 Survivors Club

Selected Internet Sources
The Butt Report – Transcript from 2014 - https://etherwave.files.wordpress.com...
The Cherwell Memorandum - https://www.worldfuturefund.org/wffma...
Target for Tonight (1941) -    • WWII Target for Tonight - Bombing Rai...  
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick... - Admiralty Professor in opposition to Bomber Command
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aerial_... – International Law pertaining to Ariel Bombardment in 1939…eg there was none
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butt_...
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Area_...
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casab...

Selected Bibliography
America’s Pursuit of Precision Bombing 1910-1945, McFarland
Absolute War – Chris Bellamy
Absolute War – The Firebombing of Tokyo
Big Week – James Holland
Black Snow- James M Scott
Bomber Boys – Kevin Wilson
Bomber Command – Max Hastings
Bomber Offensive – Sir Arthur Harris GCB, OBE, AFC
Bomber Command’s War Against Germany, An Official History – Nobel Franklin et al.
The Bomber Mafia – Malcolm Gladwell
Dresden – Sinclair McKay
Dresden; Tuesday….. – Fredrick Taylor
Undaunted and Through Adversity (Vol 1 &2) – Ben Kite
United States Strategic Bombing Survey (European War) (USSBS) Sept 1945 – Var. - https://collections.nlm.nih.gov/catal...
https://history.state.gov/historicald... - The Combined Bomber Offensive guiding charter, Enclosure B
Photos used published under Creative Commons - Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index... unless otherwise stated

Footage used
Memphis Belle: A Story of a Flying Fortress, Directed by William Wyler (including on-board shots he took at the time on actual missions) – copyright Paramount Pictures 1944
Target for Today – US Army Air Forces Film Division, 1944
The Rear Gunner - The U.S. Army Signal Corps Photographic Section, Warner Bros. 1943