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Tango01 | 11 Oct 2014 9:12 p.m. PST |
"THE FIRST BLITZ In all, 4,822 men, women and children were killed and 1,413 wounded in the airship and bomber air raids on the United Kingdom during the First World War – a small number by the standards of what would follow a generation later, but the psychological effect on the civilian population was huge. It has been said that the construction of the German airship fleet cost around five times the value of the material damage done by them but the other costs are harder to quantify. The blackout damaged production in the war effort and panic among civilians grew to such an extent that the government was forced to deploy over 10,000 men, hundreds of much needed guns and twelve squadrons of aircraft to defend Britain. The Gothas carried out twenty-two raids on Britain, dropping 84,740kg of bombs for the loss of sixty-one aircraft. The Staaken R. VIs dropped 27,190kg of bombs…"
Full text here. weaponsandwarfare.com/?p=37921 Amicalement Armand |
Cardinal Ximenez | 12 Oct 2014 6:27 a.m. PST |
A while back I found an obscure little book written about the psychological effect of the bombing campaign. Will post the title once I get home from Ligonier. DM |
Puster | 12 Oct 2014 11:47 a.m. PST |
>In all, 4,822 men, women and children were killed and 1,413 wounded To put this horrid number into a frame: A US study in the late twenties on the effects of the naval blockade by the United Kingdom puts its effiency at well above 400.000 civilian death (mostly children and sick) for Germany and Austria-Hungary. |
Tango01 | 12 Oct 2014 11:58 a.m. PST |
Interesting data. Amicalement Armand |
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