P-51 Effectiveness Against Tanks
Дата: 03.09.2014 20:39:41
Zinegata, on Aug 12 2014 - 22:38, said: That's a good question as there's so little stuff that
doesn't just regurgitate official Air Force drivel, and most of the
stuff questioning the established narrative is still in the forums
and websites. (Although one can always hope that something like
Shattered Sword is published; as that book basically corrected an
enormous number of errors present in every single established
narrative of midway). So, for my money, let's go with The
Greatest Blunders of World War 2 :p. Edit: Actually, fine,
to be more serious... Here's a work from 1946 critiquing the
already insane narrative that the airmen were trying to spin -
which is that they were a "decisive" force in winning the war:
http://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/117905/admiral-sir-gerald-dickens/bombing-and-strategy-the-fallacy-of-total-warThe_Warhawk: It's worth noting that Donald Miller's Masters of the
Air is a rather harsh analysis of the 8th AAF's Bombing
Campaign. He draws quite a bit of attention to the ineffectiveness
of strategic bombers in destroying the U-Boat pens in France, the
lack of effectiveness in halting German Fighter production, and as
you mentioned the major contribution being targeting of oil
production, which was capable of being attacked earlier in the war.
Like Shattered Sword, Masters of the
Air deconstructs the strategic thinking that led to the
development of the B-17 and it's implementation over Europe, as
well as the lack of Fighter escorts (and actually a few understated
blunders on the 8th AAF's part, namely lack of coordination with
the RAF when searching for crews in the channel). The flip side is
Masters of the Air lacks a lot of the technical detail of Shattered
Sword. Still I would say it's definitely worth a read.
P-51 Effectiveness Against Tanks