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

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0:00 Introduction
4:30 p.m. We go to North Africa first
8:36 But you're not doing it right
16:16 Play again Ira
10:30 p.m. Mid-1943 – The crisis begins
26:53 The black summer
28:03 Operation Tidal Wave
34:21 In the Valley of Death – Schweinfurt
41:34 And now?
48:37 Survivors Club

Selected Internet Sources
The Butt Report – 2014 Transcription – https://etherwave.files.wordpress.com/2014/01/butt-report-transcription-tna-pro-air-14-12182.pdf
The Cherwell Memorandum – https://www.worldfuturefund.org/wffmaster/reading/Bombing/cherwell.htm
Target for Tonight (1941) – https://www.youtube.com/watch?vY0QOKuGejSU
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_Blackett – Admiralty professor opposed to Bomber Command
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aerial_bombardment_and_international_law#::textIn%201977%2C%20Protocol%20I%20was,of%20civilians%20and%20civilian%20objects – International law relating to the bombing of Ariel in 1939… by example, there was no
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butt_Report
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Area_bombing_directive
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casablanca_directive

Selected bibliography
America's Pursuit of Precision Bombing, 1910-1945, McFarland
Absolute War – Chris Bellamy
Absolute War – The Tokyo Firebomb
Great 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
Steadfast and Through Adversity (Vols 1 and 2) – Ben Kite
United States Strategic Bombing Survey (European War) (USSBS) September 1945 – Var. – https://collections.nlm.nih.gov/catalog/nlm:nlmuid-101634748-bk
https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1943/d92 – Combined Bomber Offensive Guiding Charter, Appendix B
Photos used published under Creative Commons – Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid514724, unless otherwise noted

Images used
Memphis Belle: A Story of a Flying Fortress, directed by William Wyler (including onboard photos he took during actual missions) – copyright Paramount Pictures 1944
Today's Lens – United States Air Force Film Division, 1944
The Rear Gunner – US Army Signal Corps Photographic Section, Warner Bros. 1943