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WW2: The Resource War - IV: Strategic Bombing - Extra History (Patreon)

Published:
2016-04-27 06:20:05
Edited:
2018-05-15 03:19:21
Imported:
2022-01

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We wrap up our series on WW2, the Resource War, with a look at the Battle of Britain and the concept of strategic bombing.

P.S. Sorry for the late post on this one, team! I went out today and expected to be home by 2pm but uh... it's 11.

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WW2: The Resource War - IV: Strategic Bombing - Extra History

*Sponsored* Hearts of Iron IV comes out on June 6! Check out the game: http://pdxint.at/hoi4_coming_soon A series of missed airstrikes resulting in the death of civilians sparked the no-holds-barred Battle of Britain. Germany launched a Blitz to bomb London into submission, but inadvertantly sparked more resistance and gave British industry a chance to bounce back. --- (Episodie details below) Support us on Patreon! http://bit.ly/EHPatreon Grab your Extra Credits gear at the store! http://bit.ly/ExtraStore Subscribe for new episodes every Saturday! http://bit.ly/SubToEC Watch the WW2: Resource War series! http://bit.ly/1PRaI22 Play games with us on Extra Play! http://bit.ly/WatchEXP Talk to us on Twitter (@ExtraCreditz): http://bit.ly/ECTweet Follow us on Facebook: http://bit.ly/ECFBPage Get our list of recommended games on Steam: http://bit.ly/ECCurator ____________ Why doesn't this series use the Nazi swastika symbol? James explains: http://bit.ly/1Pzy1k5 ____________ On August 25, 1940, a group of German bomber planes got lost on a night-time mission over England. They wound up dropping bombs not on their industrial target, but on the city of London itself. Winston Churchill ordered a retaliatory strike against Germany, but this time it was the RAF who missed their target and hit civilians. Hitler was convinced this was intentional, so he rescinded his prohibition against targeting civilians. The Luftwaffe organized a massive attack against London, intending to break the British people's will to fight. The Blitz backfired in several respects. First, it diverted Germany's attention from strategic targets, which meant they were no longer putting real pressure on the British industrial war efforts. Second, they wound up bringing the British together and strengthening their will to fight on in the names of those who'd been lost to German bombs. Ultimately, the cost in men and material for Germany to wage the Battle of Britain exceeded the cost of damage they inflicted. ____________ ♫ Get the intro music here! http://bit.ly/1EQA5N7 *Music by Demetori: http://bit.ly/1AaJG4H ♫ Get the outro music here! http://bit.ly/23isQfx *Music by Sean and Dean Kiner: http://bit.ly/1WdBhnm

Comments

Anonymous

I enjoyed the exert from Winston Churchill's speech. The words are very powerful.

Anonymous

That black and white panel depicting the the German and English clash at the beginning of the episode (around the 1:20 mark) is just stunning, beautiful, and utterly effective. I paused the video for a few minutes just to look at it as I'm knew there was more there than a cursory glance would do justice to. The art style of EC/EH always delights in its simplistic complexity. I enjoyed the rest of the episode thoroughly as well. Churchill is one of the world's greatest orators. It's always a moving to hear his words.

ExtraCredits
>>1709113

Our artists take the water we give them and turn it into wine. This series was actually drawn by Scott DeWitt, who usually does Extra Credits for us, and it was fun getting to work on a different sort of project with him!

paul staber

Wars have always been won by breaking the enemy's will to fight but so far n one has ever been able to do it from the air no not even with nukes that killed about 200,000 people combined and that was only because no one bothered to use there bomb shelters (it was only one plane after all) not even the most destructive air strikes of the war or month for that matter. but by then japan had lost maybe as many as 3,500,000 people and while it is not as sexy as BANG war over there was already large scale surrenders and other signs that japan was on the verge of falling apart the nukes as far as I am concerned where just the straw that broke the camels back though they where pretty big straws.

ExtraCredits
>>1709694

Yeah, modern history isn't my particular specialty, but I do remember reading an essay or two that described how Japan was already seriously considering their surrender when the nuclear bombs hit and made it a necessity. -Soraya

Anonymous

It's interesting that the British didn't learn from the Germans' mistakes and strived to break the German will to fight with strategic bombing that caused much more destruction than the Blitz. Once again, this had the opposite effect, and made the Germans more resolved to fight to the bitter end. Some would argue that Japan was broken by strategic bombing, but that's neglecting the role of the American blockade (that threatened Japan with starvation), the Soviet attack on Manchuria, the isolation of Japan's main army in China and of course nuclear weapons were a game changer. This lesson was ignored in Vietnam as well, and is being ignored by certain politicians who want to 'carpet bomb' Syria to crush ISIS . You can't bomb a country or a people into submission.

paul staber
>>1715141

While I have made similar points myself, the one undeniable bonus of the Allied Strategic bombing campaign was that it forced the germans to defend against it tying up about a million men (to include the last pope) and many thousands of FLAK guns and fighters and even bombers (used as night fighters looking at you Ju-88) that where desperately needed at the front.