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Alexander, Amanda. "The “Good War”: Preparations for a War against Civilians." Law, Culture and the Humanities 15, no. 1 (2016): 227–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1743872116651224.

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This article argues that the narratives told about the Great War helped to establish the bombardment of civilians during World War II as an ethical, military and legal possibility. It shows that the literary representation of the Great War was antagonistic towards civilians, suggesting that a fairer war would affect the entire nation. Military strategists accepted this premise and planned for a future war that would be directed against civilian populations. International lawyers also adopted this narrative and, constrained by it and their disciplinary conventions, found it hard to posit any st
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Nechvatal, Joseph. "La beauté tragique: Mapping the Militarization of Spatial Cultural Consciousness." Leonardo 34, no. 1 (2001): 27–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.1162/002409401300052460.

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The author investigates the militarization of immersive cultural consciousness, as initiated by the aerial bombardment of civilians at Guernica and during World War II. Parallel to this trend he observes an ambient-immersive impetus in post-war art, which he traces in the example of the Espace group, and in the currently developing technology of virtual reality.
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PAGE, ADAM. "‘Foreshadows and Repercussions’: Histories of Air War and the Recasting of Cities and Citizens." Contemporary European History 23, no. 4 (2014): 645–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0960777314000368.

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In the preface to the 1941 edition to his 1908 novel, The War in the Air, H. G. Wells wrote: ‘I told you so. You damned fools’. The books discussed here illustrate how, in the few intervening decades, air war moved from a fearful vision into reality, and detail the varied experiences and consequences of the aerial bombardment of cities and civilians. The histories of air power and the aerial bombardment of cities have centred on the Second World War, moving from the humanising endurance of Londoners during the Blitz to the entirely dehumanised horror of the destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasak
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Higonnet, Margaret R. "Child Witnesses: The Cases of World War I and Darfur." PMLA/Publications of the Modern Language Association of America 121, no. 5 (2006): 1565–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.1632/s0030812900099879.

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Why, the war is for children.—Angelo PatriAs the First “Total” War of the Twentieth century, World War I marked a turning point in the understanding of what Goya had called the disasters of war. The years 1914–18 witnessed a difficult struggle to recognize and defend civilian rights in wartime, rights that had primarily been defined as those of soldiers and prisoners of war, under the Taws and Customs of War on Tand, established at The Hague in 1899 and 1907. Wartime conditions that blurred lines between civilian and combatant unleashed violations of civilians' human rights that the convention
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Rose, Edward P. F. "Aerial photographic intelligence during World War II: contributions by some distinguished British geologists." Geological Society, London, Special Publications 473, no. 1 (2018): 275–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.1144/sp473.13.

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Garon, Sheldon. "On the Transnational Destruction of Cities: What Japan and the United States Learned from the Bombing of Britain and Germany in the Second World War*." Past & Present 247, no. 1 (2020): 235–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/pastj/gtz054.

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Abstract How did it become ‘normal’ to bomb civilians? Focusing on the aerial bombardment of China, Germany, Britain, and Japan in 1937-45, this essay spotlights the role of transnational learning in the construction and destruction of ‘home fronts’. Belligerents vigorously studied each other's strategies to destroy the enemy's cities and ‘morale’, while investigating efforts to defend one's own home front by means of ‘civilian defence’. The inclusion of Japan, as bomber and bombed, contributes to a more global, connected history of the Second World War. Japan's sustained bombardment of Chines
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Degaspari, John. "Look, Ma, No Pilot!" Mechanical Engineering 125, no. 11 (2003): 42–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/1.2003-nov-3.

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This paper reviews history of unmanned aircraft that are making news today. A team led by the inventor Charles Kettering had developed the airborne contraption, conceived as a top-secret weapon to deliver explosives against enemy troops. The craft was the first practical unmanned airplane. Unmanned aerial vehicles such as this circa 1946 target drone were built by the Radioplane Co. to train antiaircraft gunners during World War II. Weary bombers, such as the radio-controlled B-17G Flying Fortress, were used with small success as flying bombs during the World War II. World War II era target dr
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Maier, Charles S. "Targeting the city: Debates and silences about the aerial bombing of World War II." International Review of the Red Cross 87, no. 859 (2005): 429–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1816383100184322.

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AbstractThe article goes back to the early discussions of the morality of city bombing which took place before and during World War II and attempts to analyze both the moral argumentation and its historical context from the 1940s until today. The development of the doctrine of “collateral damage” which recognized that attacking enemy factories was permissible even if it cost the lives and homes of civilians was soon widened beyond its original notion. After the war, the dropping of the atomic bombs became an issue in its own right, to be considered separately from the earlier recourse to conve
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Spennemann and Poynter. "Using 3D Spatial Visualisation to Interpret the Coverage of Anti-Aircraft Batteries on a World War II Battlefield." Heritage 2, no. 3 (2019): 2457–79. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/heritage2030151.

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Heritage Building Information Modeling (HBIM) focuses on the documentation and visualization of heritage properties which are confined in their permanent terrestrial space. This paper extended the concept of Heritage Building Information Modeling to the airspace above the sites. It presented a methodology for the 3D spatial visualisation of the aerial space controlled by anti-aircraft (AA) guns, taking into account the masking effects of the underlying terrain and the technological capabilities of the guns (rate of fire, projectile weight, etc.). The tool permits a nuanced analysis of the inte
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Okolotin, Vladimir S. "PRODUCTION OF SPECIAL PRODUCTS AT IVANOVO FURNITURE FACTORY (PLANT NO. 43) DURING WORLD WAR II." Vestnik of Kostroma State University, no. 2 (2020): 83–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.34216/1998-0817-2020-26-2-83-87.

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The article is devoted to the study of Ivanovo furniture factory, which during World War II operated under the provisional name «plant No. 43» of the People’s Commissariat of the forest industry. Fulfi lling the orders of the State Defence Committee of the USSR, it produced landing and sanitary aerial vehicles, special caps for 45 mm shells, cases for anti-tank mines and other special products for the active army. The article refl ects the problems of the development of these types of products by the combine, the organisation of production cooperation for the production of individual component
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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "World War II aerial bombardment"

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Weir, Paul. "British attitudes to the aerial bombardment of German cities during the Second World War." Thesis, University of Sussex, 2015. http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/58501/.

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This thesis examines the attitudes of British people to the aerial bombardment of German cities during the Second World War, with particular attention given to those who challenged the nature of the campaign. I use contemporary sources with a strong emphasis on qualitative data to develop a picture of attitudes at the time and situate the roots of the significant post-war controversy within these contemporary attitudes. The thesis offers a more sustained and textured account of anti-bombing sentiment than other historiographical works. An introductory chapter charts the development of aerial b
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Ehlers, Robert S. Jr. "BDA: Anglo-American air intelligence, bomb damage assessment, and the bombing campaigns against Germany, 1914-1945." The Ohio State University, 2005. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1114180918.

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Simpson, Patrick B. (Patrick Brent). "The History of the 389th Bombardment Group (H): a Study of the Use and Misuse of Strategic Bombers in the Second World War." Thesis, University of North Texas, 1994. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc278883/.

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This thesis describes and evaluates the successes and failures of the use of strategic bombers through the abilities of one heavy bombardment group, the 389th. It examines the different missions that determined the effectiveness of the Group. When employed in a strategic bombing role, the 389th contributed significantly to the destruction of the German war industries and transportation system. When used as a tactical bomber, a mission for which it had neither proper training nor equipment, the 389th was generally a failure.
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Laine, Howard David. "AWPD-1 : America's pre-World War II plan for bombing Germany /." Thesis, This resource online, 1991. http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-11072008-063613/.

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Garner, Christian A. "Forgotten Legacies: The U.S. Glider Pilot Training Program and Lamesa Field, Texas, During World War II." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2016. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc849715/.

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Rapidly initiated at the national, regional, and local levels, the American glider pilot training program came about due to a perceived need after successful German operations at the outset of World War II. Although the national program successfully produced the required number of pilots to facilitate combat operations, numerous changes and improvisation came to characterize the program. Like other American military initiatives in the twentieth century, the War Department applied massive amounts of effort, dollars, and time to a program that proved to be short-lived in duration because it wa
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Jahnke, Todd Eric. "By Air Power Alone: America's Strategic Air War in China, 1941-1945." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2001. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc2800/.

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During World War II, the Army Air Force waged three strategic air offensives in and from China against Japan. At first, the Flying Tigers and 10th Air Force constituted the whole of American aid to China, but the effort soon expanded. Supported by Chiang Kai-shek, Claire Chennault and his 14th Air Force waged an anti-shipping campaign, to which the Japanese Imperial Army responded with Operation Ichigo and against which Joseph Stilwell accurately warned. 20th Bomber Command used B-29s to wage Operation Matterhorn, failed, and later conducted PACAID missions. 14th Air Force then waged a counter
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Thin, Jeremy. "The Pre-History of Royal Air Force Area Bombing, 1917-1942." Thesis, University of Canterbury. History, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10092/1740.

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This thesis charts the development of area bombing in British theory and practice before its formal adoption in the Second World War, and seeks to discover where its earliest origins can be located. Area bombing was the official policy of Royal Air Force Bomber Command between 1942 and 1945 in its strategic air offensive against Germany, and involved the bombing of industrial cities with the purpose of breaking down civilian morale and disrupting the German war economy. Most historical accounts present area bombing as a gradual development in bombing policy during 1940 and 1941, forced by a la
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Le, Corre-Cochran Victoria Ann. "Taking Control, Women of Lorient, France Direct Their Lives Despite the German Occupation (June 1940-May 1945)." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/36388.

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This thesis argues that from June 1940 when German soldiers occupied Lorient, France until May 8, 1945 when the Lorient "Pocket" surrendered, although the women of this port city faced drastic changes, they took control of their everyday lives. They did what it took to feed and clothe their families, working, standing in lines, buying on the black market, bartering, demonstrating, and recycling. They developed relationships with German soldiers which ran the gamut. Due to aerial raids in the context of the Battle of the Atlantic, they sought shelter, buried their dead, took care of their woun
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Koehler, Kurt C. "Strategic Bombing in the European Theater of Operations During World War II: Experiment and Conclusion." Thesis, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/1805/4976.

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Books on the topic "World War II aerial bombardment"

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Hicks, Walter Edmund. The 97th Bombardment Group, World War II. University Microfilms, 1985.

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Curry, Richard G. World War II combat diary. R.G. Curry, 2004.

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N, Hess William, ed. The ragged irregulars of Bassingbourn: The 91st Bombardment Group in World War II. Schiffer Military/Aviation History, 1995.

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Mackay, Ron. Ridgewell's flying fortresses: The 381st Bombardment Group (H) in World War II. Schiffer Military History, 2000.

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Timmer, Nicholas. Forever twenty: [a World War II story]. 2 Moon Press, 2011.

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Ash, Robert I. My life during World War II. Lucielle W. Ash, 2004.

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Dreiman, Jack. My experiences during World War II. Estate of J. Dreiman], 2002.

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Digre, Clifford B. Into life's school: My World War II memories. C. Digre], 2009.

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Digre, Clifford B. Into life's school: My World War II memories. C. Digre], 2009.

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Larson, Harold V. Bombs away!: A history of the 70th Bombardment Squadron (M) in early World War II. SeaCliff Press, 1998.

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Book chapters on the topic "World War II aerial bombardment"

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Giblett, Rod. "Fire and Air in the Sublime Bombing of World War II Aerial Warfare." In Landscapes of Culture and Nature. Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9780230250963_5.

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"High-Altitude Daylight Precision Bombardment." In Lectures of the Air Corps Tactical School and American Strategic Bombing in World War II. The University Press of Kentucky, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/j.ctvc77n9f.10.

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"High-Altitude Daylight Precision Bombardment." In Lectures of the Air Corps Tactical School and American Strategic Bombing in World War II, edited by Phil Haun. University Press of Kentucky, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.5810/kentucky/9780813176789.003.0005.

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In this chapter the operational requirements for conducting high-altitude daylight precision bombing are examined in “Practical Bombing Probabilities.” In this lecture, given at the conclusion of the ACTS Bombardment Course, Laurence Kuter examines the lessons learned from the bombing probability problems assigned during class. In doing so he reviews the detailed planning required to determine the number of bombers and bombs to assign to a target in order to be reasonably confident of success. The key factors that determine the likelihood of hitting the target are the number of aircraft flown/bombs dropped, the altitude of weapons delivery, and the accuracy of the bombsight. Kuter argues that improvement in bombsight accuracy is where the greatest gains in accuracy can be achieved.
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Langenbacher, Eric. "The Allies in World War II: The Anglo-American Bombardment of German Cities." In Genocide, War Crimes and the West. Zed Books Ltd, 2004. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781350220324.ch-005.

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Pong, Beryl. "Introduction." In British Literature and Culture in Second World Wartime. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198840923.003.0001.

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The introduction examines how writers anticipated the Second World War in the interwar period, and why dread became a pervasive experience in the 1930s and 1940s. Beginning with the problem of how to define the spatio-temporal boundaries of modern wartime, it argues that, with war looming, modernist time philosophy gradually shifted focus from the past to the future. The chapter then presents a model for understanding Second World Wartime through the concept of late modernist chronophobia. As a war understood to be a repetition of the First World War, but whose effects were expected to be more catastrophic and total, it is characterized by a fear of time itself. During the Blitz, this is enacted on a local level on the home front, through the temporalities of aerial bombardment. The chapter discusses why, as a bridge between the memory of the First World War and the incipient temporalities of the Cold War, the Second World War is crucial to understanding how modern wartime developed in the twentieth century.
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"The Bomber Always Gets Through." In Lectures of the Air Corps Tactical School and American Strategic Bombing in World War II, edited by Phil Haun. University Press of Kentucky, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.5810/kentucky/9780813176789.003.0004.

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In this chapter, to support the assertion that air power is inherently offensive, Kenneth Walker, in “Driving Home the Bombardment Attack,” argues that in the air, offense dominates defense, and a well-armed and well-flown massed bomber formation can defend against any air-to-air attack. In “Tactical Offense and Tactical Defense,” Frederick Hopkins takes an inductive approach to the question of whether the bomber will always get through. In World War I, only when German defenders concentrated their fighters to British bombers at a ratio of 1.5 to 1 did British attrition rates become too great for sustained operations. Hopkins considers it unlikely such ratios would be achieved in the future given the defender’s dilemma of having to defend everywhere yet also mass forces against an offensive force that could choose the time and location of attack.
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Monahan, George H. "The Army-Navy Contest for Control of Land-Based Antisubmarine Aviation and the Military Unification Debate, 1942–1948." In The Sea and the Second World War. University Press of Kentucky, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.5810/kentucky/9781949668049.003.0011.

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In this chapter, George H. Monahan discusses the success of the German U-boat offensive in the Western Atlantic after the U.S. entry into World War II, which led the War Department leadership to believe that the U.S. Navy was not employing adequate antisubmarine tactics. In the application of airpower to combat the submarine threat, the War Department and Army leadership believed that aggressive "hunter-killer" tactics would prove more effective than the Navy's preferred defensive tactic of conducting aerial patrols in the vicinity of convoys. Navy leaders, meanwhile, contended that its defensive tactics were the best method of protecting shipping. A bitter interservice conflict ensued as the War Department sought to initiate an Army Air Forces antisubmarine offensive over the Bay of Biscay. Claiming jurisdiction over all air operations at sea, the Navy leadership firmly opposed the War Department's initiative and insisted that Army Air Forces antisubmarine units operate according to the Navy's defensive doctrine. Secretary of War Henry Stimson's frustration over Admiral Ernest King's refusal to accede to the War Department antisubmarine initiative led the former to support a post-war reorganization of the military command apparatus, thereby ensuring Navy subordination to civilian leadership under an overarching Secretary of Defense.
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Hauser, Kitty. "Recuperating Ruins." In Shadow Sites. Oxford University Press, 2007. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199206322.003.0010.

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As has been well documented, images of the British landscape performed an important propagandist role in the Second World War, particularly after the fall of France in June 1940, when Britain faced the prospect of both aerial attack and all-out invasion by air or sea. In what Angus Calder has called ‘the myth of the Blitz’ the nation’s landscape, framed by war, played the role of backdrop, target, refuge, dream, and prize. An advertisement for F. J. Harvey Darton’s books English Fabric, Alibi Pilgrimage, and The Marches of Wessex, which appeared in Country Life in August 1940, made a familiar association when it asserted that at ‘no other time in our long island history has the spirit of the English Countryside made such an appeal to us as now’. In illustrated publications like Country Life and Picture Post, the landscape was repeatedly presented in its most idyllic form of ‘Beautiful Britain’ as—explicitly or implicitly—‘what we are fighting for’. An article entitled ‘The Beauty of Britain’ which appeared in Picture Post on 22 June 1940, for example, included picturesque shots of hay-harvesting in the Lake District, captioned ‘The Dream Men Carry With Them’, and a lake in Caernarvonshire, captioned ‘The Peace That Will Come Again’. ‘This is Britain’, ran the accompanying text. ‘This is the soil we are fighting for.’ Pre-war anxieties that the distinctive characteristics of the British landscape were disappearing beneath a tide of modernization were largely eclipsed under the immediate impact of the threat of enemy bomb attacks. For the sake of the rhetorical power of these morale-boosting images, it was imperative to stress the continuing presence of that which was in fact feared by many to be disappearing. This development did not mark a great U-turn so much as a change of emphasis. There was a continuity of rhetoric, as we shall see, for Britain under threat of modernization could easily be rewritten as a country under threat of aerial bombardment or invasion. And by relocating the threat in the war machine of a nation—Nazi Germany—that seemed to embody the forces of an aggressive mechanization, this was not hard to do.
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Ball, Philip. "5. The atom factories: making new elements." In The Elements: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford University Press, 2004. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/actrade/9780192840998.003.0005.

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‘The atom factories: making new elements’ explores the synthesis of new elements. The transmutation of new elements is only possible due to radioactivity. Rutherford discovered that bombarding nuclei with protons caused nuclear decay, and Fermi realised that neutron bombardment could create transuranic elements. Both processes released vast amounts of energy, harnessed by the United States in World War II. As well as being broken apart, nuclei can also be fused into heavier nuclei. This releases even more energy. This process occurs in the Sun, but is much harder to perform on Earth. As heavier and heavier elements have been found, arguments have raged about priority and naming rights.
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Baxter, Colin F. "Torpex and the Battle of the Atlantic." In The Secret History of RDX. University Press of Kentucky, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.5810/kentucky/9780813175287.003.0011.

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At the start of World War II, Allied aircraft lacked an effective airborne weapon to use against U-boats in the Battle of the Atlantic. The importance of the Operational Research Section at RAF Coastal Command. Initially, the commander-in-chief of RAF Coastal Command and his civilian scientists were in agreement, but differences over weapon size almost led to the abandonment of the most promising aerial anti-U-boat weapon, the 250-pound Torpex-filled airborne depth charge. The Hedgehog antisubmarine weapon would also fire Torpex-filled projectiles.
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Reports on the topic "World War II aerial bombardment"

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Loben Sels, James A. van. The 37th Bombardment Squadron's Service in World War II. Defense Technical Information Center, 2001. http://dx.doi.org/10.21236/ada407825.

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