Whirlwind: Battle of the Ruhr - S1/E6: Interlude March 13th to 22nd 1943

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On March 5th 1943, the first raid in what would become known as the Battle of the Ruhr occurred as over 400 bombers attacked Essen, home to the massive Krupp's Works. It was the start of what RAF Bomber Command's commander, Arthur Harris, described as his "Main Offensive", which would continue until March 1944 when the bombing effort was increasingly directed at pre-invasion targets in occupied France. Supported by new electronic bombing and navigation aids and new tactics by the young Pathfinder force, Bomber Command was able for the first time to consistently hit and damage major German cities. The result was unprecedented death and destruction across Germany, as Arthur Harris pursued his goals of destroying German morale, destroying German towns, and destroying German industry.

This series aims to animate and show how each raid was planned and unfolded during the "Battle of the Ruhr". While there are many books on RAF Bomber Command, there is little showing how these raids actually worked, or how the German night fighter defense responded. As the saying goes, a picture is worth a thousand words, and it is simply beyond the realm of words to explain what must be seen. This series seeks to fill that gap as much as possible, to present a visual history of the actual bombing campaign that is missing from the literature and media on Bomber Command.

The morality aspect of the bombing campaign against German cities will not be touched on in this series, simply because it has been done elsewhere and this series could never properly address it in the time constraints that exist. Books hundreds of pages long cover the topic, and do it better than this series ever could.

00:00 - Intro
00:10 - Raid Cancellations
00:33 - Goebbels Braces For Future Raids
06:12 - John Searby Takes Over 106 Squadron
07:33 - Ron Read Rests
08:29 - Minelaying Operations
08:48 - The Weather Clears...

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RAF Bomber Command, Avro Lancaster Bomber, Handley Page Halifax Bomber, Vickers Wellington Bomber, Short Stirling Bomber, Arthur Harris, Joseph Goebbels, Adolf Hitler, World War Two, WW2, WWII, Area Bombing, Carpet Bombing, Civilians, War Industry, Essen, Nuremberg, Munich, Stuttgart, WWII Bombing, Bombers, BF110, JU88, Luftwaffe, Royal Air Force, Nachtjagd, Night Fighter, Time lapse, Animated, Documentary, City Bombing, Germany, England, Canada, New Zealand, Australia, France, Poland, Block Buster, Fire Bombing, Incendiary, Fire, Operational Research, Night Bombing, U-Boat, Loriant, La Pallice, Brest, Battle of the Atlantic