The Prime Minister of England addressed the Cabinet of War on the first anniversary of the outbreak of war stating:

“The Navy can lose us the war, but only the Air Force can win it. Therefore our supreme effort must be to gain overwhelming mastery in the air. The Fighters are our salvation, but the Bombers alone provide the means of victory. We must, therefore develop the power to carry an ever-increasing volume of explosives to Germany, so as to pulverize the entire industry and s

During a nine –day bombing campaign there were one thousand planes used in the night bombing mission on Germany by the British Royal Air Force. The United States daylight bombing missions supported these nightly bombing missions. The intensity of these attacks coincided with the near paralysis of the German radar defenses. AS a result nearly fifty thousand Germans perished in these mission (Puttre 58). These aided attacks helped the British and the United States advanced on the Nazi.

By studying development of air power, it can be seen that a war does not always allow for the strongest power to win. During World War 11, the German had a stronger army and military backing compared to the United States and the British. The Allied forces had some advantages over German such as better technology and industrial resources. These two aspects allowed Allies to stop the advancement of the Germans. The Germans were unable to replace necessary resources that were destroyed or hindered by the bombing of Germany. This was the plan of the British and the United States forces and proves to be superior to the German plan to use air warfare in conjunction with ground advances. Although Germany put up a great fight against their enemies, they were unsuccessful in preventing the destruction of their necessary resource, If the industrial centers of Germany had not been destroyed, the Germans would have had the necessary resources to prevent their take over by the British and United States. This destruction of the industry was through the air warfare.

cientific while holding him [Hitler] at the arms length from out Island. In no other way at the present visible can we hope to overcome the immense military power of Germany…” (Saundry100)

The German forces also had a lack of reserve planes, fuel stocks, bombs and torpedo bombers (Levine 18). This was due to the destruction of industry by the British and the United States forces and due to the lack of skilled workers that were able to work in the factories. Also, German was unable to develop sophisticated radar-detecting systems compared to the advance radar system that the opposition developed (Levine 19). Before the use of radar, the bombers had a hard time hitting the certain targets; the smaller targets usually seemed untouched after several attempts to bomb them. Night attacks decreased the accuracy of destroying targets. This was increased by the German “black out” during the night hours. The “black out” caused a guessing of where targets were because all lighted objects were required to

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