True Warriors: The U.S. Eighth Air Force Was Really Number One
The Eighth Air Force served in combat longer than any other U.S. Army unit in the European Theater.
Key Point: After more than two years of aerial bombardment of targets throughout Germany and Occupied Europe, the Eighth Air Force had come to symbolize heavy bombing.
When World War II in Europe came to an end, the Eighth Air Force was the most famous unit in the U.S. Army Air Forces and, until the massive Boeing B-29 Superfortress raids against Japan in the spring of 1945, it was the most powerful.
Shocking CCTV footage taken just before 3.10am on Saturday showed the alleged vandals clambering on top of the WWI monument in Martin Place in Sydney s CBD.
Author Malcolm Gladwell has doubled down on the claim made in his new book that Bomber Harris was a psychopath , despite criticism from the war hero s grandson.
Gladwell criticised the World War Two chief of the Royal Air Force s Bomber Command, whose full name was Sir Arthur Harris, in his book The Bomber Mafia: A Story Set in War.
Sir Arthur received his popular nickname after orchestrating the RAF s hugely controversial strategic bombing of German cities, in which civilian areas were deliberately targeted.
Over the course of the war, between 300,000 and 600,000 civilians were killed by Allied bombing, which almost totally destroyed cities such as Dresden.
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