Why were some German and Japanese cities bombed more than others during WW2? Is there a scientific consensus?
Upvote:-2
By late 1944, Japan was in ruins. Most major cities had already been destroyed by 1945 bombing of Japan was more so a psychological weapon than practical. However Japan did not consolidate industry to major factories and diversified production of war goods to cottage industry and small scale manufacturing. So destroying all in vicinity was paramount.
Upvote:5
You're going to have to learn quite a lot about the bombing campaigns before you can start to research this facet of them in a meaningful way. The history is complicated, and has been obscured by politics. The issues you need to understand include, but are not limited to:
- The ideology of "independent air forces."
- The widely variable meanings of "strategic", as applied to bombing.
- The very different means and methods of the British and American bombing campaigns in Europe, and their evolution over the course of the campaign.
- The much-neglected subject of the use of tactical bombing and ground attack by lighter bombers as a means of reducing the casualties of the heavy bombers.
- The changes in American methods during the bombing campaign against Japan.
- The personal ideas and objectives of many of the personalities involved.
- The degree of whitewashing that some hold to have been applied to the history.
A good start can be obtained from Richard Overy's The Bombing War: Europe 1939–1945 (2013), ISBN 0713995610 (later published as The Bombers and the Bombed: Allied Air War Over Europe, 1940–1945, ISBN 978-0-670-02515-2). That book is not enough orientation, but it is a reasonable introduction, and it is well-referenced.
More post
- 📝 Did the Tlingits benefit from resisting the Russians more than other Alaskan tribes?
- 📝 Hugh Dowding v. William Sholto Douglas?
- 📝 History of the Changes and Developments in Types of Urban Renewal Projects
- 📝 Were pre-columbian peoples aware of "America" as a three parts continent?
- 📝 Did the Allies try to "bribe" Franco to join them in World War II?
- 📝 Why didn't continental eurotpeans aid the Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms (Mercia, Northumbria, Wessex and East Anglia) against the invading Danes and Norse?
- 📝 How widely accepted are Tolstoy's views on history within the academic community?
- 📝 When did the British monarch become an emperor?
- 📝 Number of bullets used in WW2
- 📝 What differences led to Technicolor becoming the dominant color filming technology in Hollywood?
- 📝 Why did Catholic church wait for 350 years to accept "Galileo's idea"?
- 📝 Earliest Born Photographed Person
- 📝 Ports with ships in the commercial Halifax trade, late 18th Century
- 📝 Are modern handguns a major reason for democratization?
- 📝 What uniform is my Cossack great great grandfather wearing?
- 📝 How have African countries kept the boundaries divided by colonists and countries unified for decades, despite the many ethnical groups and conflicts?
- 📝 Divine Right of Kings: Why?
- 📝 Will we ever be able to understand history with 100% accuracy
- 📝 How did Southern slaveholders in the United States relate to the Caribbean and Latin America?
- 📝 Can anybody identify this 1900-1933 uniform (possibly German)
- 📝 Published History of Harvard
- 📝 The destruction of the Mycenaean palaces and the Sea-peoples
- 📝 Does the (Ragnersson) mean (Son of Ragnar)?
- 📝 What are Kottabos players holding in their left hand?
- 📝 Did Gustavus Adolphus ever speak of making himself Emperor?
- 📝 How did the white minority in South Africa see their situation in the apartheid times?
- 📝 In what respect could Italian Renaissance be considered a phase of romanticism?
- 📝 Were there communes in Imperial Germany?
- 📝 When were the most reigning monarchs related to each other?
- 📝 Where can I find maps and other historical resources / references of Calcutta / Kolkata in the Victorian era?
Source: stackoverflow.com
Search Posts
Related post
- 📝 Why were some German and Japanese cities bombed more than others during WW2? Is there a scientific consensus?
- 📝 Were some Yugoslav "nationalities" more pro-Axis/Allied than others during World War II
- 📝 Why were so many more Jewish men than Jewish women killed during the Holocaust?
- 📝 Why were the Prague Spring leaders treated more leniently than Nagy and his colleagues?
- 📝 Were B-17s (rather than B-29s) ever used to bomb mainland Japanese territory during WW2 (at least before the capture of Okinawa)?
- 📝 Why were there so many Japanese Prime Ministers before and during WW2?
- 📝 Why were Japanese Americans forced to move, while German Americans and Italian Americans did not generally suffer the same consequences?
- 📝 Why were the Thirteen Colonies more successful, both economically and socially, than other colonies?
- 📝 Why were the drawings of Colossus burnt after WW2 and why was its very existence "of course" kept secret?
- 📝 Why did the German air force lose experienced pilots faster than the Allies, even though they were defending their home airspace?
- 📝 Why were schoolchildren in the USA taught virtually nothing about the Holocaust during the fifties and sixties?
- 📝 Why did Chicago and other cities choose an L (elevated metro) when most others chose underground subways?
- 📝 Percentage of the draft pool that were conscripted during WW2 and Vietnam
- 📝 Millions of pictures and countless hours of video were taken during World War II. Why is it so hard to find archives online?
- 📝 Why was ancient Christianity more successful than the Roman pantheon and Judaism in gaining followers?
- 📝 Why were there more Muslims in East Bengal than in West Bengal
- 📝 Why were the cities of the Eastern European Plain founded much later than those elsewhere in Europe?
- 📝 Were East Germans more acquiescent to Soviet domination than the rest of Eastern Europe and if so, why?
- 📝 Why are some Americans more religious than European counterparts?
- 📝 Why did the price of eggs in Britain increase much more than for other basic foods during WWI?
- 📝 Why did the German Military and Police not intervene during the years of NSDAP ascend?
- 📝 When and why did single deity religions become more popular than multi deity religions?
- 📝 During the 1850’s and 60’s, was the free North (and its cause in the U.S. Civil War) considered more virtuous than the slave-holding South?
- 📝 Were some groups in the Soviet Union more likely to collaborate with the Germans than others?
- 📝 Why were some German conquered territories (eg: Poland) referred to as 'Generalgouvernement'?
- 📝 Why were the 8th Route Army better at fighting the Japanese than the Nationalists were?
- 📝 Were aerial dogfights during WW2 and WW1 typically very one-sided?
- 📝 Why were Norwegian crews flying for Bomber Command paid more than other RAF crews?
- 📝 In Europe, why were hereditary dynasties more prevalent in the medieval world than in the ancient world?
- 📝 Were non German soldiers treated differently than German soldiers in the German army during the Great War?
