Sentence examples for precision bombardment from inspiring English sources

Hansell recognized the most serious flaws in the daylight precision bombardment theory, that: radar early warning and the lack of long-range escort fighters made deep penetration raids by massed bombers too costly to achieve strategic goals until a means of air superiority was attained, and that German industry, rather than being fragile and fixed, proved to be resilient and mobile.

Under pressure from USAAF headquarters in Washington, LeMay changed tactics and decided that low-level incendiary raids against Japanese cities were the only way to destroy their production capabilities, shifting from precision bombing to area bombardment with incendiaries.

Hansell became a member of a group known as the "Bomber Mafia," ACTS instructors who were both outspoken proponents of the doctrine of daylight precision strategic bombardment and advocates for an independent Air Force.

From late June the 315th Bombardment Wing conducted a series of night precision bombing attacks against the Japanese oil industry, independently of the precision day and night incendiary raids.

Following the views of air power theorists Billy Mitchell, Hugh Trenchard, and Giulio Douhet, Walker enunciated two fundamental principles: that bombardment would take the form of daylight precision bombing; and that it should be directed against critical industrial targets.

He became an advocate of the doctrine of strategic bombardment, and was one of the chief architects of the concept of daylight precision bombing that governed the use of airpower by the USAAF in the war.

During this period B-29 attacks on Japan were limited to a raid by the 315th Bombardment Wing against an oil target on the night of 9/10 August and a daytime precision bombing attack on a factory in Tokyo on 10 August.

Indeed, in 2006, it tracked down the Baluch leader Nawab Bugti, cornered him in a cave and killed him with a precision ­bombardment – exactly the sort of operation, one assumes, it would be called upon to conduct against the Taliban.

ReprintsGood Israeli intelligence and the greater precision of the air bombardment have kept casualties in the densely populated territory lower than before.

The bombardment would require pinpoint precision in order to spend the shortest amount of time over the targets, which are heavily defended by antiaircraft-missile batteries.

Together with precision attacks from carrier-based planes, the pre-invasion bombardment would pour fire day after day onto the beaches with such intensity — he paused, weighing the phrase, then said, "with such stupendous intensity" — that the very ground upon which the Japanese defenses stood would be obliterated.