area bombing

The Americans too found themselves moving towards area bombing of cities.

Portal had tried to move Harris away from area bombing to join in the attacks on oil.

The radar was used for high altitude area bombing, search and navigation.

This new policy came to be called 'area bombing'.

Only in 1943 did Harris have both the means and the opportunity to put his belief in area bombing into practice.

In 1942 the Cabinet agreed to the "area bombing" of German cities.

At the time area bombing was contrasted with precision bombing.

Could Churchill have been put on trial for famine in India and the area bombing campaign?

But much of the effort, in darkness and impossible conditions, had to be in the form of area bombing.

Instead, he favoured area bombing against industrial cities.

Harris was a zealous advocate of the area bombing of German cities.

This was only effective for "area bombing", however, since radio equipment wasn't accurate or powerful enough to specify a specific target.

Area bombing is a form of strategic bombing.

Area bombing risked killing too many prisoners.

Harris wanted to continue his policy of area bombing industrial cities, Spaatz wanted to attack the oil plants.

The widespread area bombing of Innsbruck began in December 1943 and went on until April 1945.

It was argued that the intent of area bombing was to disrupt communications and destroy industrial production.

The Lincolns generally conducted area bombing missions, as well as strikes against pinpoint targets.

We were never all in it together, and in the current system never will be unless we suffer another area bombing campaign.

The RAF followed a policy of "area bombing" of cities.

Area bombing, like the RAF efforts, were widely used with 750 and then 1000 bomber raids against large targets.

Although killing German civilians was never an explicit policy, it was obvious that area bombing must lead to large-scale civilian casualties.

This was the start of a British drift away from precision attacks on military targets and towards area bombing attacks on whole cities.

However, the 'shock' value of precision bombing is less severe than of area bombing.