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  title info:
    title: Hitler's strategic bombing offensive on the Eastern Front
    sub title: blitz over the Volga, 1943
  name:
    name part: Degtev, Dmitry
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Zubov, Dmitry
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2021
    copyright date: 2021
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: ix, 294 pages : illustrations, plans ; 24 cm.
  abstract: Germany was never able to match the power of the Allied air forces with their great four-engine bombers, the Lancasters, Liberators and Flying Fortresses. Indeed, many have ascribed the defeat of Germany in the Second World to its lack of a strategic bombing force. There were, though, two occasions when the Luftwaffe's twin-engine bombers undertook strategic objectives on a large scale. The first of these was the 'Blitz' of 1940-1941, in which the Luftwaffe attempted to wreck Britain's industrial and military capacity. The second was on the eve of Operation Zitadelle, a major offensive against Soviet forces in the Kursk salient. Hitler's objective was to replicate the successful Allied mass-bombing of German cities, the Luftwaffe being tasked with destroying the main tank and aircraft production facilities and fuel depots. Hitler saw this as the necessary prelude to weaken the Russians before the 'decisive' onslaught of Zitadelle.The aerial operation, Carmen II, lasted for a month and covered a huge target area from the Rybinsk reservoir to the Caspian Sea. For these complex and risky night missions, all the Ju-88 and Не-111 bombers available to Hitler in the East were employed.
  note: Dmitry Degtev and Dmitry Zubov.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: e-gx---
    geographic code: e-ru---
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Germany.
      name part: Luftwaffe
    topic: History
    temporal: World War, 1939-1945
  subject:
    topic: World War, 1939-1945
    topic: Aerial operations, German
  subject:
    topic: World War, 1939-1945
    topic: Campaigns
    geographic: Russia (Federation)
  subject:
    topic: Kursk, Battle of, Russia, 1943
  classification: D787 .D44 2021
  classification: 940.544943
  identifier: 9781526789891
  identifier: 1526789892
  record info:
    record content source: YDX
    record creation date: 200807
    record change date: 20220105155921.0
    record identifier: in00004365785