United States Strategic Bombing SurveyThe 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 bombardmentIn 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 bombesUn 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 citiesThe 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 bomberA 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.
