The Deadliest Job Of WW2? - US Bomber Crews 1943 (Documentary)

Compare news coverage. Spot media bias. Avoid algorithms. Try Ground News today and get 30% off your subscription by going to Fall 1943, Allied bombers are ramping up their daytime raids of Nazi German cities and industry. The bomber crews of the US 8th Air Force will pay the price against the German Luftwaffe. Formations such as the “Bloody Hundredth” 100th Bomber Group suffer some of the highest loss ratios of the Second World War – while in 1943 German war production continues to grow. So, let’s have a look why the 8th Air Force weren’t Masters of the Air over Germany quite yet. » SUPPORT US » THANK YOU TO OUR CO-PRODUCERS Raymond Martin, Konstantin Bredyuk, Lisa Anderson, Brad Durbin, Jeremy K Jones, Murray Godfrey, John Ozment, Stephen Parker, Mavrides, Kristina Colburn, Stefan Jackowski, Cardboard, William Kincade, William Wallace, Daniel L Garza, Chris Daley, Malcolm Swan, Christoph Wolf, Simen Røste, Jim F Barlow, Taylor Allen, Adam Smith, James Giliberto, Albert B. Knapp MD, Tobias Wildenblanck, Richard L Benkin, Marco Kuhnert, Matt Barnes, Ramon Rijkhoek, Jan, Scott Deederly, gsporie, Kekoa, Bruce G. Hearns, Hans Broberg, Fogeltje » SOURCES Bowman, Martin W., The Mighty Eighth at War: USAAF Eighth Air Force Bombers versus the Luftwaffe 1943-1945, (Barnsley : Pen & Sword Aviation, 2010) Caldwell, Donald L., The Luftwaffe over Germany: Defense of the Reich, (London : Greenhill Books, 2007) Freeman, Roger Anthony, Mighty Eighth: A History of the U.S. Eighth Air Force, (Garden City, NY : Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1970) Hall, Kevin, “Luftgangster over Germany: The Lynching of American Airmen in the Shadow of the Air War”, Historical Social Research, No. 43 (2008) Hansen, Randall, Fire and Fury: The Allied Bombing of Germany and Japan, (London : Faber & Faber Ltd, 2020) Hawkins, Ian L., B-17s Over Berlin: Personal Stories from the 95th Bomb Gropup (H), (London : Brassey’s, 1990) Hawkins, Ian L., Münster: The Way It Was, (Anaheim, CA : Robinson Typographics, 1984) Historischer Verein Markt Werneck, “Luftangriffe auf Schweinfurt und ihre Auswirkungen auf Werneck” ( Drittes Reich/19431014 Luftangriffe Schweinfurt Oktober 1943 und ihre Folgen fuer den Bereich ) Jacobs, W. A., “Strategic Bombing and American National Strategy, 1941-1943“, Military Affairs, Vol. 50, No. 3 (Jul., 1986) Levine, Alan J., The Strategic Bombing of Germany, 1940-1945, (Westport, CT : Praeger 1992) Nijboer, Donald, The Mighty Eighth: Masters of the Air Over Europe 1942-1945, (Oxford : Osprey Publishing, 2022) Ross, Stewart Halsey, Strategic Bombing by the United States In World War II: The Myths and the Facts, (Jefferson, NC : McFarland & Company, Inc., 2003) Tooze, J. Adam, “No Room for Miracles. German Industrial Output in World War II Reassessed”, Geschichte und Gesellschaft, 31. Jahrg., H. 3, Südasien in der Welt (Jul. - Sep., 2005) Luftangriffe auf Hamburg bis . Anlage 2: Übersicht in Zahlen (1943) »CREDITS Presented by: Jesse Alexander Written by: Mark Newton Director: Toni Steller & Florian Wittig Director of Photography: Toni Steller Editing: Toni Steller Motion Design: Toni Steller, Philipp Appelt Mixing, Mastering & Sound Design: Research by: Mark Newton Fact checking: Florian Wittig, Jesse Alexander Channel Design: Simon Buckmaster Contains licensed material by getty images, AP and Reuters Maps: MapTiler/OpenStreetMap Contributors & GEOlayers3 Music Library: Epidemic Sound All rights reserved - Real Time History GmbH 2024