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Civilian casualties of strategic bombing
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United States Strategic Bombing Survey
The United States Strategic Bombing Survey (USSBS) was a written report created by a board of experts assembled to produce an impartial assessment of the effects of the Anglo-American strategic bombing of Nazi Germany during the European theatre of World War II. After publishing its report, the Survey members then turned their attention to the war efforts against Imperial Japan during the Pacific War, including a separate section on the recent use of the atomic bomb, Little Boy.
Area bombardment
In military aviation, area bombardment (or area bombing) is a type of aerial bombardment in which bombs are dropped over the general area of a target. The term "area bombing" came into prominence during World War II. Area bombing is a form of strategic bombing. It can serve several intertwined purposes: to disrupt the production of military materiel, to disrupt lines of communications, to divert the enemy's industrial and military resources from the primary battlefield to air defence and infrastructure repair, and to demoralise the enemy's population (See terror bombing).
Tapis de bombes
Un tapis de bombes est le bombardement systématique d'une zone géographique de taille variable. Cette stratégie est également désignée « bombardement de saturation ». Elle s'oppose à celle du . Cette technique militaire consiste à quadriller la zone cible de bombes, de manière à raser systématiquement tout ce qui s'y trouve, au moyen de nombreux bombardiers survolant la zone et larguant leurs bombes simultanément. Le but du tapis de bombes est soit la destruction totale de la zone cible, soit la destruction d'un ou plusieurs objectifs spécifiques qu'il est impossible de viser avec précision.
Aerial bombing of cities
The aerial bombing of cities is an optional element of strategic bombing, which became widespread in warfare during World War I. The bombing of cities grew to a vast scale in World War II and is still practiced today. The development of aerial bombardment marked an increased capacity of armed forces to deliver ordnance from the air against combatants, military bases, and factories, with a greatly reduced risk to its ground forces.
Strategic bomber
A strategic bomber is a medium- to long-range penetration bomber aircraft designed to drop large amounts of air-to-ground weaponry onto a distant target for the purposes of debilitating the enemy's capacity to wage war. Unlike tactical bombers, penetrators, fighter-bombers, and attack aircraft, which are used in air interdiction operations to attack enemy combatants and military equipment, strategic bombers are designed to fly into enemy territory to destroy strategic targets (e.g.
Bombardement stratégique
vignette|Bombes montées sous un biplan Gotha G-V de la Luftstreitkräfte en novembre 1917. Le bombardement stratégique est un bombardement aérien qui a pour objet d'attaquer les structures militaires d'un ennemi, son complexe militaro-industriel et son économie en détruisant ses mines, ses usines, ses infrastructures. En détruisant ses villes, ses réseaux d'approvisionnement en vivres et les habitants civils, il vise aussi à saper le moral de la population en instaurant la terreur des bombes.
Bombardement de Guernica
Le bombardement de Guernica (sous le nom de code opération Rügen) est une attaque aérienne réalisée sur la ville basque espagnole de Guernica le lundi 26 avril 1937 par de la Légion Condor allemande nazie et de l'Aviation Légionnaire italienne fasciste, en appui du coup d'État nationaliste contre le gouvernement de la Seconde République espagnole.