The Strategic Bombing Debate: The Second World War and Vietnam

Journal of Contemporary History

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 1977, Pages 175-191

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EID: 84976943257     PISSN: 00220094     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/002200947701200108     Document Type: Article

References (18)

1. See Major General J.F.C. Fuller, The Second World War (London 1948) and Perry McCoy Smith, The Air Force Plans for Peace, 1943-1945 (Baltimore 1970).
2. Noble Frankland, ‘The Combined Bomber Offensive: …’ in Command and Commanders in Modern Warfare [Proceedings of the Second Military History Symposium U.S. Air Force Academy, 2-3 May, 1968], 283-84.
3. William Manchester, The Arms of Krupp (Boston 1968), 529.
4. David Halberstam, The Best and the Brightest (New York 1973), 600-01. (George W. Ball along with John K. Galbraith and Paul H. Nitze, was, at the close of the second world war, one of the directors of The United States Strategic Bombing Survey.)
5. Louis Morton, ‘World War II: A Survey of Recent Writings in The American Historical Review, LXXV, No. 7, December 1970, 2000.
6. See Henry F. Graff, The Tuesday Cabinet, Deliberation and Decision on Peace and War under Lyndon B. Johnson (Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey 1970).
7. John L. Frisbee, ‘Not with a Whimper, But a Bang’ in Air Force Magazine, Vol. 56, No. 3, March 1973, 6.
8. Albert Speer, Inside The Third Reich (New York 1970), 280.
9. A probing individual examination of the air offensive against Germany is Anthony Verrier, The Bomber Offensive (London 1968). Prominent examples of treatment of the bomber offensive in the wider context of the war, or the period are: B.H. Liddell Hart, The Second World War (London 1970)
10. and A.J.P. Taylor, English History, 1914-1945 (Oxford 1965).
11. Examples of this third category are: Martin Caldin, The Night Hamburg Died (New York 1960)
12. Ralph Barker, The Thousand Plane Raid [against Cologne] (New York 1966)
13. and David Irving, The Destruction of Dresden (London 1963).
14. Michael J. Yavenditti, ‘The American People and the Use of Atomic Bombs on Japan: The 1940's in ‘The Historian, XXXVI, No. 2, February 1974, 224-47. Aside from official historical accounts, John Hersey's, Hiroshima, (New York 1946) still comes most immediately to mind. Most historical writings dealing with the dropping of the atomic bombs on Japan tend to frame their consideration in the overall diplomatic context, and such topics as the origins of the Cold War.
15. The 135,000 fatality figure comes from David Irving's, Destruction of Dresden. The East German account referred to is Max Seiderwitz, Zerstorung und Wiederaufbau von Dresden (Berlin 1955). For a very provocative article about Dresden, see R.H.S. Crossman, ‘Apocalypse at Dresden,’ in Esquire, November 1963. Crossman makes some rather grave charges against Allied leaders in this article and likens them to Nazi criminals.
16. John L. Frisbee, ‘The Air War in Vietnam,’ in Air Force Magazine, Vol. 55, No. 9, September 1972, 53.
17. John L. Frisbee, ‘The B-52: The Phoenix That Never Was’ in Air Force Magazine, Vol. 56, No. 2, February 1973, 4.
18. Edgar Ulsamer, ‘USAF Prepares for Future Contingencies’ in Air Force Magazine, Vol. 56, No. 6, June 1973, 34-40.