Talk:Bomber Command

Split

bulk of text moved to Disadvantage of precision bombing

Bombing cities

I have removed the following text from the article, pending discussion. "Throughout the war, Bomber Command carried on attacks on German civilian morale by bombing cities, a futile policy endorsed by Air Minister Sir Charles Portal and Prime Minister Winston Churchill."

As it stands, it is one-sided and not wholly true. It seems likely that any attempt to correct the false impression it gives would lead to the sort long argument already seen where the subject of bombing has arisen.

I recommend therefore, that it should be dropped. (RJP 12:33, 1 October 2005 (UTC))

Linkspam???

Please let me know if this Weblinks are Spam or good informations about the Bomber Command?

The German view

- *Bombenkrieg at Historicum.Net Extensive site with large content, maintained by the University of Cologne. (mainly in German) - *Air Battle of the Ruhr 1939-1945 History of the most important industrial area in Germany in World War II, maintained by the Historisches Centrum Hagen. (mainly in German, with pictures) - *Hagen 1939-1945 Example for a heavy bombed German town, maintained by the Historisches Centrum Hagen. (mainly in German, with pictures) - *Mission 854, 28/2/1945 Air raid of the 8th USAAF on the railroad yards in Hagen, 28. February 1945. (in Germyn, with pictures)

Title

This is surely a bad title. Even if we take the view that RAF Bomber command is the primary meaning (could be controversial) this is more than a disambiguation page. PatGallacher (talk) 14:03, 1 September 2010 (UTC)

Requested move

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The result of the move request was: page moved. No significant history at the target pages, consensus is to move, source names are contrary to guidelines, and this is just reversing a previous and undiscussed move. Andrewa (talk) 04:07, 10 September 2010 (UTC)

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Bomber Command (disambiguation) → Bomber Command — This is not a disambiguation page, we need a better title. At present the primary meaning is RAF Bomber Command, it may be the best known but not necessarily by a huge margin. PatGallacher (talk) 19:45, 2 September 2010 (UTC)

• Support and expand generic coverage. 76.66.194.106 (talk) 05:16, 3 September 2010 (UTC)

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USAAF Air Forces Not Known as "Bomber Commands"

This entire article is strange in its construct. An article already exists on RAF Bomber Command and the USAAF Air Forces have articles. And, they were not known as Bomber Commands as the various Bomber Commands were subordinate elements of the numbered Air Forces. The Bomber Commands were eliminated in the 1944 reorganization. For example, the personnel of the 20th Bomber Command were used to reconstitute the Eighth Air Force on Okinawa in 1945 after it, 20th Bomber Command, was eliminated from 20th Air Force's structure. To keep this article parallel, it's necessary to identify, for example, that Eighth Air Forces (with its subordinate Eighth Bomber Command) was, in 1942, the U.S. peer to RAF's Bomber Command. I think any additional facts found here should be consolidated in the existing articles and this one purged.--Bemcfarland (talk) 14:20, 1 January 2018 (UTC)