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Douhet Scenario
- - Command of enemy's airspace
- - Bombing: "The bomber will always get through."
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German Preparations for WWII
- - Mock tanks
- - Civil airports
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German Moves to WW II
- - Hitler becomes Chancellor in 1933
- - Annex Austria, 1938
- - Annex Czechoslovakia, 1938
- - - Chamberlain: "Peace in our time."
- - - Munich Pact
- - Invade Poland, 1 SEP 1939
- - - France & Britain declare war on 3 SEP
- - - Germans make great use of combined arms
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WW II German invasion of France
- - APR 1940
- - Flank Maginot Line through Low Countries
- - Divide French & British Forces
- - German operations at faster tempo
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Dunkirk
- - Operation DYNAMO
- - 338k British & French evacuated
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Operation Sea Lion
- - German invasion of Britain
- - Destroy British industry
- - Loss of Battle of Britain cancels
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RADAR
- - Difference during Battle of Britain
- - Lost aircraft: German: 2,375, Britain: 800
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Lend Lease
- - 11 MAR 1941
- - Billions in materiel to Britain, USSR, France & China
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Kasserine Pass
- - First large battle between U.S. & Germany
- - U.S. loses first battle, wins second
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Operation Barbarossa
- - German invasion of Russia
- - 22 JUN 1941
- - 2m Russians vs. 3m Germans (et al)
- - OCT: Reach Moscow
- - 15k killed each day
- - 97% of Soviet men born in 1923 dead by 1946
- - 86.4% of German divisions fighting Soviets
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Soviet EPW
- - JUN - DEC 1941: 3.9m captured
- - FEB 1942: 1.1m remain alive
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Stalingrad
- - Soviets wore down Germans
- - von Paulus surrenders 100k remaining troops
- - Germans unable to use combined arms
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Kursk
- - Largest armor/tank battle in history
- - 200k Soviet casualties, 50k German casualties in first 10 days
- - Soviets lose 50% of tanks
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D-Day
- - 6 JUN 1944
- - Omaha, Sword, Juno, Gold, Utah Beaches
- - Omaha: Softening up ineffective
- - Utah: First wave 2k meters south
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Battle of the Bulge
- - DEC 1944
- - Germans attack in Ardennes forest (Belgium)
- - Goals
- - - Reach the sea
- - - Trap allied armies
- - - Compell negotiations
- - U.S.: 35k casualties
- - German conclusions on loss:
- - - Poor terrain, roads
- - - Allied air superiority
- - - Poor communications
- - - Bypassed objectives
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Bastogne
- - 101st ABN
- - Gen A.C. MacAuliffe: "Nuts!"
- - 6-day seige
- - Man-to-man combat
- - Germans weaken, retreat
- - Thousands killed, city destroyed
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Dresden
- - 14 FEB 1945
- - Firestorm consumes 11 square miles
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Crossing the Rhine
- - 7 MAR 1945, Remagen bridge
- - Det charges fail, Americans capture
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Battle of Berlin
- 16 APR 1945
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Germans Surrender
- - Allies: 8 MAY 1945
- - Russians: 9 MAY 1945
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War with Japan
- - U.S. sanctions after Japan invades Indochina
- - Japanese leaders considered war with U.S. unavoidable
- - Japan hoped to force U.S. negotiations
- - 15 NOV 1941: CoS: war with Japan will be "all out".
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Midway
- - Jun 1942
- - Important refueling station
- - Turning point of war in Pacific
- - U.S. uses SIGINT & broken codes
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Pacific Theater
- - Philippines, Hong Kong, Singapore
- - May 1942: Battle of Coral Sea Japanese setback
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Island Hopping Campaign
- - AUG 1942: 1 MARDIV on Guadalcanal
- - FEB 1945: Iwo Jima
- - APR 1945: Okinawa
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Atomic Bombs
- - 6 AUG 1945: Hiroshima
- - 9 AUG 1945: Nagasaki
- - 14 AUG 1945: Japan surrenders
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Lessons of Pacific War
- - Japan overconfident
- - America advantages
- - - Intelligence
- - - Bombers in naval warfare
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Technology Developments of WWII
- - Aviation (USAF, CAS, Air-Land Doctrine, Jets)
- - Armor (Tanks centerpiece of maneuver, Armored divisions)
- - Airborne Operations (1936, behind lines, suprise, 82nd & 101st ABN)
- - Submarines (Diesel electric - +range, +speed, +depth, snorkels, nuclear - postwar)
- - Rockets (V1, V2, no defense)
- - Atomic Bomb (RMA, changed warfare & world)
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Infantry Weapons of WWII
- - Light machine guns
- - M1911 .45 pistol
- - M1 Garrand
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