Shuttle bombing

Shuttle bombing is a tactic where bombers fly from their home base to bomb a first target and continue to a different location where they are refuelled and rearmed. The aircraft may then bomb a second target on the return leg to their home base.[1][2][3] Some examples of operations which have used this tactic are:

While shuttle bombing offered several advantages, allowing distant targets to be hit and complicating the Axis defence arrangements, it posed a number of practical difficulties, not least the awkward relations between the Western Allies and the Soviet Union. The operations were concluded in September 1944 after a three-month period, and not repeated.

References

  1. Staff. Shuttle bombing McGraw-Hill's AccessScience Encyclopedia of Science & Technology Online
  2. Edward T. Russell (1999). Leaping the Atlantic Wall: Army Air Forces Campaigns in Western Europe, 1942–1945(PDF), United States Air Force History and Museums Program pp. 26,27. (HTML copy on the website of USAAF.net)
  3. Dear, I.C.B and Foot, M.R.D. (editors) (2005). "Shuttle bombing". The Oxford Companion to World War II. Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. 778. ISBN 978-0-19-280670-3.
  4. Christopher Chant (1986). The Encyclopedia of Codenames of World War II, Routledge, ISBN 0-7102-0718-2. p. 15
  5. Jon Lake (2002). Lancaster Squadrons 1942-43, Osprey Publishing, ISBN 1-84176-313-6. p. 66
  6. Bombardiers lourds de la dernière guerre : B-17, forteresse volante, Avro Lancaster, B-24 Liberator. Editions Atlas. 1980. ISBN 2731200316.
  7. Miller, Donald (2006). Masters of the air : America's bomber boys who fought the air war against Nazi Germany. New York: Simon & Schuster. ISBN 0743235444.
  8. Charles T. O'Reilly (2001). Forgotten Battles: Italy's War of Liberation, 1943–1945 Lexington Books, ISBN 0-7391-0195-1. p. 343
  9. Deane, John R. 1947. The Strange Alliance, The Story of our Efforts at Wartime Co-operation with Russia. The Viking Press.
  10. Combat Chronology of the US Army Air Forces September 1944: 17,18,19 copied from USAF History Publications & wwii combat chronology (pdf)
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